FarmVille on Nexus One - Flash 10.1 Demo on Android

FarmVille on Nexus One – Flash 10.1 Demo on Android

By Taimur Asad | February 23rd, 2010

I have been extensively testing the new HTC Sense from HTC Desire ROM on Nexus One and so far has been very impressed with what HTC has to offer with this new version of Sense experience for Android phones. This ROM with Sense also packs Flash Player 10.1 for Android which is officially slated for Android 2.x release sometime this year.

FarmVille on Nexus One

After testing out different Flash-based sites, I tried FarmVille (facebook app) on Nexus One and it worked quite well. Except for one crash, there were no other major issues and performance was fast and smooth, thanks to the 1Ghz Snapdragon chip on the back of Nexus One. I have shot a small video which shows off the said popular facebook game on the Nexus One. See it and judge it for yourself.

Can your iPhone do that?

Want to try it out on your Nexus One? Follow the step by step instructions posted here to install the pre-release version of HTC Desire ROM for Nexus One with HTC Sense.

P.S. Believe it or not, this was the first time I ever played FarmVille and was quite clueless at first on how to make this damn game work.

View Comments on "FarmVille on Nexus One – Flash 10.1 Demo on Android"

PulSamsara February 22nd, 2010
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Go Android.

obinwosu February 22nd, 2010
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Can you try Zynga et al again but this time with Full Screen Mode enabled for Flash? It may be more playable.

norrafi February 23rd, 2010
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Can original Nexus One do that?

Ben Gillam February 23rd, 2010
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looks terrible, graphics were stucking around from the loading screen and i bet the battery was sitting there draining away quite rapidly.

no my iphone cant do it, and im glad!

Kokok February 23rd, 2010
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no cant,you must wait for the official one….so you can flash sense ui rom instead to do the flash rightaway

Gary February 23rd, 2010
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Looks unplayable to me. Touch is not recognized most of the time. Very frustrating. How do they do the mouse over commands with a touch screen.

He tried about 10 times to plant that upper right field and never once got it to work.

Total waste of time trying to use FLASH on a touch screen device it just does not work right.

theregoesdave February 23rd, 2010
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Something tells me that the demographics for Nexus One owners and Farmville players are at the opposite end of the spectrum.

Stefanos Kofopoulos February 23rd, 2010
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Guys, do you notice the same battery drain as shown in this video? Flash on Android is sick but the battery drain is huge :/

NotAFanboy February 23rd, 2010
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It actually looks farely unresponsive to me (The whole OS, not just flash).

Lag during pinch-to-zoom?
No, my iPhone can´t do that.

Jon b February 23rd, 2010
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Um. The game never loaded. This was just one giant bug.

You got the loading screen with the gameplay controls, but the loading screen never went away so you never actually accessed the game.

The video demonstrates that you can load the controls, but you never actually accessed the game.

Trev February 23rd, 2010
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Believe it or not you've just made the case for excluding flash on mobile devices. That was extremely painful to watch and is exactly the reason flash should be replaced, especially for mobiles.

matthewfabb February 24th, 2010
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According to Adobe, this isn't Flash Player 10.1, but an alpha of new version of Flash Lite:
http://flashmobileblog.com/2010/02/23/redmond-p...

Flash Player 10.1 has a lot more optimizations, so it would be hard to judge performance based on how it works in Flash Lite.