Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM)  said it was working with Adobe Systems to bring support for Adobe's Flash player to the Blackberry platform.

RIM also announced it had joined the Open Screen Project, an Adobe-backed initiative dedicated to bringing Flash support to mobile phones, TVs, PCs and other consumer electronics devices.

According to Adobe, Flash Professional CS5 will enable developers to create applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Applications for the iPhone built with Adobe Flash Professional CS5 do not include any runtime interpreted code, Adobe said. A public beta of Flash Professional CS5 is expected to be available later this year, the company said.

Adobe said the collaboration with RIM is expected to bring the full Flash player browser runtime to Blackberry smartphones. Flash Player 10.1 support is expected to be available for a series of mobile platforms including Google Android, Blackberry, Symbian, Palm webOS and Windows Mobile, Adobe said.

With the addition of the Blackberry platform, Flash will now be available on 19 of the top 20 smartphones, with iPhone being the only holdout, according to Adobe.

By: DocMemory
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