Users of Android 2.2 "Froyo" devices can download Adobe AIR directly from Android Market today.
Both apps have been built with Adobe AIR to deliver a consistent content and video playback experience across platforms.
Adobe AIR 2.5 for BlackBerry Tablet OS and the Samsung Smart TV platform is expected to be available early 2011.
Adobe AIR 2.5 and the Adobe AIR 2.5 SDK for Android and desktop operating systems including Windows, Macintosh and Linux are available today.
If you can build it using Adobe tools, compiled on Adobe Air platform, packaged as Apps in the App Store, there is Flash on the iPhone.
In addition, hardware acceleration for Adobe AIR is enabled across all major silicon partners including Broadcom, Intel, nVidia, ST Micro, Trident, Texas Instruments, Qualcomm and others.
The cross-platform nature of Adobe AIR means the iPlayer will work with Open Source and Apple Mac computers "out of the box" on 18 December, said Mr Rose.
Those who want to try the new player must first install Adobe AIR and then get the trial version by signing up to be an iPlayer Labs tester via the iPlayer site.
Anytime after Q4 2010 -- that's when Adobe says it wants to have Adobe AIR for Android runtimes publicly available in the Android Market, along with an initial batch of apps, and fairly exciting potential for more.
ENGADGET: Adobe AIR 2.5 coming to Android in Q4 2010, but only to capable phones
RIM's strategy is obviously riding on highly portable Adobe AIR apps and Flash support in the browser (much like Microsoft's Silverlight app strategy for Windows Phone 7), and we look forward to seeing just how well that playbook plays out in the PlayBook.
Adobe Flash Access 3.0, a robust content protection and monetization solution, will enable content owners to deliver on-demand content with massive scale and strict studio-level security across a broad range of devices, following the upcoming release of Flash Player 11 and Adobe AIR(R) 3.
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In addition, Samsung will be the first television manufacturer to ship Adobe AIR in its line of Samsung SmartTV devices while Acer, HTC, Motorola, RIM, Samsung and others are expected to ship the runtime pre-installed on a variety of devices including tablets and smartphones later this year and early 2011.
Not everyone is thrilled with Adobe's AIR or Microsoft's similar technology, called Silverlight.
Microsoft has countered Adobe's AIR and Flex technologies with its own development tools called Live Mesh and Silverlight. (Sun Microsystems in May launched similar technology called JavaFX, and Google has a tool out called Gears.) Microsoft has 4 million software developers already using its .
The new version of the iPlayer has been written with Adobe's AIR technology which aims to make it possible to create applications that can be downloaded to your computer, rather than just embedded in browser web pages as is possible with the widely used Flash software.
On a related note, if you weren't yet sold on Google TV, a breath of fresh AIR might help -- Adobe told us it's presently pondering the correct time to add the cross-platform runtimes on Google's video streaming boxes as well.
ENGADGET: Adobe AIR 2.5 coming to Android in Q4 2010, but only to capable phones
But ubiquity rules: Adobe is giving away basic versions of both AIR and Flex, charging only the pros who create the content with Flex.
In 2011, Adobe took another shot at improving their mobile AIR VM this summer and with a lot of pressure on Apple, the floodgates for Flash applications for iPhone were opened.
Adobe knows of 300 applications built using its new AIR technology, and most are startups.
For the past year Adobe has been rolling out new software tools called Flex and AIR, which give developers a new approach to online media.
"As a longtime partner of Adobe, we are excited that users will have the opportunity to enjoy AIR applications and content on our devices, " said Christy Wyatt, corporate vice president, software and services product management at Motorola.
If Adobe is to make a difference on mobile platforms, they will have to fix AIR for both iOS and Android yet again, and play another round of catch-up game with Unity 3D on mobile.
Don't necessarily expect them to work on every Android phone, however, as there are some prerequisites for AIR, namely an ARMv7 processor or better with a vector co-processor, OpenGL ES 2.0 and Froyo, but Adobe says if your device handles Flash 10.1, it'll probably run AIR.
ENGADGET: Adobe AIR 2.5 coming to Android in Q4 2010, but only to capable phones
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