Android 2.2 or greater on Android phones

Report · Jan 11, 2011

I purchased a Samsung Galaxy S phone in the summer and found out that I can't do AIR development on it without Android 2.2. I also found out that the AIR runtime and Flash Player 10.1 are not able to be installed without Android 2.2. There has been no update from Samsung and since December Android 2.3 and now Android 3.0 is coming out.

So millions of users aren't able to run AIR created Android apps or run Flash Player in their browser. Is there anything Adobe can do to help push this update out? It's ridiculous that an update to 2.2 has been available to European markets for the last few months running on the exact same hardware.

FYI US Galaxy S phones have been upgraded automatically to the latest update when they've been connected to their network and continue to work flawlessly when switching back to a US network.

Report · Jan 11, 2011

There's nothing Adobe can do to speed up Samsung's update process. However, there was a beta for AIR that ran on Eclair (2.1). Who knows if they will ever release it. My guess is no at this point seeing that the majority of Android users will be on 2.2 or above in the next couple of month.

Some of the Galaxy S phones have already received updates in Europe. Hopefully this means US Galaxy S & Tabs will get them shortly. That also depends on carrier approval though (Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile).

Glad I went with the EVO!