Will Adobe AIR be supported on the new Google Android TV?

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August 21, 2014
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Is Adobe planning on supporting the new Google Android TV that's coming later this year?

please say YES!!!!

Sean.

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Correct answer chris.campbell

This definitely looks like an interesting platform. I'm not sure if we have one of the ADT-1 dev kits in house but I'm investigating.

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Born2codeAuthor

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any news Chris?

regards...

chris.campbell

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Nothing to announce. We've applied for an ADT-1 but haven't received anything. I'm not sure if any testing has been done on the emulator. Have you given this a try?

The device looks very interesting, but I'm biased as an owner of multiple Roku's and an Amazon Fire TV (I've got an WD Live TV that was sadly boxed up.) I'm definitely not the norm though, and I think it remains to be seen how successful these addon boxes will be.

Are there any statistics out there that show app sales/penetration on the current set of boxes? I bought a controller with my Fire TV, but to be honest I wasn't overwhelmed with the initial set of games. I liked some (life long You Don't Know Jack fan) but others (Sev Zero) left me underwhelmed. I never got into any games on the Roku, other than a game or two of Angry Birds. Is this atypical usage?

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Born2codeAuthor

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No doubt in mind that Android TV will be big, for games and Video Apps (which is what Adobe is all about when it comes to AIR) so I think Adobe really should support Android TV. What's nice is that it will be built onto many new TV sets (not just boxes).

Unfortunately it is not available for sale yet, so I can really test anything...

I would imagine the technical effort on Adobe's part would be minimal (seems like same Android SDK with some new manifest xml entries).

I can't find any projected sales, but keep in mind that you have some major partners here which have committed to Android TV eco system including LG, Sony and others, so it will get wide adoption no doubt, which means a great opportunity to push Adobe AIR platform so more people can adopt AIR as a true cross OS development environment.

Is Adobe aware of this?

Are they having meeting and talking about supporting Android TV?