Flash is certainly running as native code on the device as they do CPU and GPU optimization see http://tv.adobe.com/watch/flash-camp-san-francisco/flash-player

Flash is certainly running as native code on the device as they do CPU and GPU optimization see http://tv.adobe.com/watch/flash-camp-san-francisco/flash-player-101-internals/ http://tv.adobe.com/watch/flash-camp-san-francisco/flash-pla... for more details also because Google is part of the Open Screen Project http://www.openscreenproject.org/partners/current_partners.html http://www.openscreenproject.org/partners/current_partners.h... those same CPU and GPU optimization could benefit Android itself (not only Flash) those partners are about being open to each others, exactly the opposite of you know who ;)