Apple's iPhone 4 may be shipping this week, but Android fans have a reason to celebrate, too. Adobe today announced that it has released the final version of Flash Player 10.1 for Google's mobile operating system.

Apple's iPhone 4 may be shipping this week, but Android fans have a reason to celebrate, too. Adobe today announced that it has released the final version of Flash Player 10.1 for Google's mobile operating system.

The app will be available for download via the Android Market for those users who have Android 2.2 (Froyo) installed on their phones--devices expected to offer the Android update include the Dell Streak, Google Nexus One, HTC Evo, HTC Desire, HTC Incredible, Droid by Motorola, Motorola Milestone, and Samsung Galaxy S. No official word on when that will happen, however...

Flash Player 10.1 was also released to support devices based on Android, BlackBerry, webOS, future versions of Windows Phone, LiMo, MeeGo and Symbian OS, and is expected to be made available via over-the-air downloads and to be pre-installed on smart phones, tablets and other devices in the coming months, Adobe added.

Adobe has already made a test version of Flash 10.1 available to the public. That app quickly became one of the most downloaded free apps in the Android Market, in spite of not having been rolled out to a majority of Android users. Adobe also said earlier this year that it would bring Flash to the Android platform.

Mobile features include accelerometer support, which reorients Flash content for landscape and portrait mode. Smart zooming allows Flash apps and video to scale to a full-screen size.

Adobe also made improvements in the Flash performance and battery life. "Smart rendering" doesn't render Flash content that's not on the screen, conserving system resources, Adobe said. Sleep modes put Flash into, well, sleep mode, while the player also pauses during phone calls or when switching over to other device functions, only restarting when the app is brought back into focus. Adobe alos touted its out-of-memory features, which reduce the app's memory footprint when it's not being used, and lowers the memory that content uses by 50 percent.

Finally, Adobe also noted the work that it did with hardware and software makers to optimize for specific platforms, further reducing power consumption. ARM, Brightcove, Dell, Google, HTC, Intel, Microsoft, Motorola, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, RIM, Samsung, Texas Instruments announced their support for Flash Player 10.1.

However, Adobe didn't formally announce any advancements in security, one of the chief criticisms of the platform, and the chief obstacle that Apple chief executive Steve Jobs on the iPhone platform, now called .

Oh, and in case any desktop users want the update, too, Adobe has made it available at Adobe.com as well.

A version of this story was originally posted to AppScout.