16 October 2011

Adobe did again...sadly

Some days ago, Adobe released Flash Player 11 for Android.
Great, no ? Enhanced player, 3D support etc....

Well, yes and no, Adobe made (again) the mistake to release an heavy app without App2SD support....
On my HTC Desire, it needs 17M of internal memory, almost as much as AIR (which at last support App2SD now)....
It's not a problem on my Nexus S but I had to remove 2 or 3 apps on my Desire to install FP11...
At this rate, for the next version, I'll finish with a Desire with bundled apps + AIR and FP only...
(yes, Google Earth, Map and Market are just too heavy also)

Does it mean my Desire is now a obsolete smartphone ? Does it mean Adobe optimized their player for speed nor for size ?
I don't know but if you read the comments (at least here in France) on the market, it's only complaints about the size, not the new capacities... Not very good....

2 comments:

Jorge said...

I had exactly the same problem on my Nexus One, so finally my selected option was to uninstall Flash, really sad but eat too much space...

CephalidOne said...

sorry but that is the only problem in an otherwise really good device.
512 mb rom is so low they cannot install gingerbread and sense...

try some cyanogenmod you shold be able to move any application to sd not only the ones designed for it