Adobe this morning announced that third-party developers now have access to the Photoshop.com Mobile for Android 1.1 editor, allowing them to make it a part of their applications.
The news comes four months after the company released Photoshop.com Mobile for Android, enabling users to easily edit and share their photos. That app got an upgrade, too.
Amusingly, Adobe also takes a bit of a swing at Apple for not being able to provide such tools to iPhone app developers. Said Doug Mack, vice president and general manager of Digital Imaging and Rich Media Solutions at Adobe:
“Unlike iPhone, the Android platform allows us to make the Photoshop.com editor broadly available to developers so they can provide it within any application they are working on. Photoshop functionality can then easily be accessed from an online auction, real estate or social media application so users can quickly fix photos and make them look their best, before being showcased.”
The updated version of Photoshop.com Mobile for Android 1.1 brings effects like Vibrant (to boost photo colors) and Pop, which brings a ‘pop art’ style to images. The Soft Black and White, and Warm Vintage tools can be used to add a classic and aged effect to photos. Other new effects include Vignette Blur, White Glow and Rainbow.
Adobe Photoshop.com Mobile for Android 1.1 is available as a free download in all countries with Android Market in English only. Search the Android Market for “photoshop.com” to find it.
That’s smart move by Adobe… Google just acquired Picnik. Before Picnik+Picasa provide the integrated editing + cloud storage feature, Adobe will have some early movers advantage
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I imagine Adobe will be taking a lot of swings at Apple in the coming few months. They have, oddly enough, tolerated Apple putting out software that directly competes with theirs for quite some time, but the whole anti-Flash thing really seems to be stirring them up.
I’ll be really interested to see if CS5 Mac 64-bit compatibility makes it on time, or if it will be another instance of putting it out for the PC, then saying they are still working on it for the Mac?
Nice to have photo editor on mobile ..picnic make more sense to the Chrome OS rather than the Android
Good strategy. Adobe should keep doing PR blows to Apple by making extremely cool Flash shit for the Android.
Or they could come out looking like bitchy whiners a la Palm.
I second Adobe’s shot at Apple.
If Jobs can froth at the mouth and insult his competitors, they aren’t obligated to release shit for his ludicrous app store.
Ahem a-hem ahem.
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Two-way editing requests are easy to implement and planned.
yes. i’m always thinking when i’m on the go, “what I need to do is some photo editing!”
not the killer mobile app.
Very cool. Everyone knows that Photoshop leaves the competition in the dust. Who would use Picassa when they can use Photoshop, and how many people have ever heard of Picnik?
This gives Android a big edge, especially when so many companies are now putting better cameras in their phones, and everyone wants to share pictures with friends and family.
People who don’t want to pay money for simple photo editing would use Picasa instead of Photoshop. Picnik was a nice little utility, and I think it was integrated into Flickr at one point so I’m sure plenty of people knew about it.
What is more interesting here is that it actually points to Android feature that is pretty much unique to Android platform, however still not very used by Android developers. Hopefully, the Adobe’s move will make more Android developers thinking about opening their Intents (to say that in Android lingo). Opening screens (Intents) is very good alternative distribution strategy on Android.
On Android platform developers can easily open selected screens of their applications and make them available to other applications to use. The transition between applications is so smooth that users don’t have the feeling that they are opening the 3rd party application or going back to old application after using whatever functionality 3rd party app offers.
In other words, if you are opening your data, don’t think about opening server side API only. Think about giving other developers access to full blown screens of your application. This will result in zero time implementation for developers and provide you with a good alternative distribution model.
The ability to open Intents is untapped advantage of Android platform and while majority of the Android apps today are siloed and closed, we will likely at some point see a huge opening that will benefit users a lot. Today even Facebook app on Android has no open Intents. They should be the next ones to open some of their screens and let Android developers use them in their apps for easy Facebook integration.
As far as I know, this will be implemented in the release this summer. Not many people have mentioned the apps launching other apps feature, but I assure you it is coming. It is in the API.
That said, Adobe should be careful in that it is the customers that suffer! But, I expect to move to Android myself at some point, so creating an interesting viable app ecosystem is critical to the platform.
Adobe has planned it well. Photo editing is most essential software needed for mobile phones and Adobe targetting Android is a wonderful idea.
> Unlike iPhone, the Android platform allows us to make the Photoshop.com editor broadly available to developers
What a load of total BS. If Adobe was so inclined, they could easily provide a library to iPhone App developers that they could link agains and use in their Apps.
Have a read:
http://www.thewisergeek.com/2010/03/lies-damn-lies-and-marketing/
“I would hazard to guess that this all has something to do with Apple’s stance of Flash being “not wanted here” on iPhone OS”
That’s the whole point… iPhone does not support Flash which means it cannot support Adobe’s photo editor. Nobody said it was impossible to duplicate the same functionality for iPhone, but as is, the Adobe photo editor will not work on the iPhone. It would have to be rewritten in Objective C.
Actually, there is a Photoshop app for the iPhone in the iTunes store and it was written in Objective C. What Adobe is talking about is a feature that is available in Android that is apparently not available in the iPhone to open up a different application and I assume pass an image’s bitmap data.
It’s not BS at all… The point is that Adobe’s photo editor is Flash based and the iPhone does not support Flash while Android does. Sure, In the next version of the Flash IDE there will be some support to export for iPhone, but I’d be surprised if it supported all the features necessary for the photo editor. I doubt it will be able to export something that could easily integrate with other iPhone apps either.
Pretty neat, and works well. I implemented image editing in of of my apps in a few minutes.
it seems that even Adobe is cashing in on the App world!
jeje seems cool though!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgJ5i-7oRLA
Good move by the Apple to make their mobile phones more compatible with other applications and adding more features to their mobile phones.
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