Adobe confirms it won't support Flash on Android 4.1
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Adobe confirms it won't support Flash on Android 4.1
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Re: Adobe confirms it won't support Flash on Android 4.1
#2here's to hoping that google will step in here as they did with linux and make it run anyway...
Re: Adobe confirms it won't support Flash on Android 4.1
#3Gnash to the rescue!
Re: Adobe confirms it won't support Flash on Android 4.1
#4its not really that adobe won't support it. its that chrome is default and never supported it.
I bet we can install ICS's flash and whatever req. libs and it works with other browsers.
Re: Adobe confirms it won't support Flash on Android 4.1
#5Hopefully the absence of Flash on both major mobile platforms will help speed its demise on non-mobile platforms as well.
On the other hand, this news might just precede another announcement from Google saying "don't worry, Adobe doesn't support it anymore, but we do", just as they did for Flash on Linux.
Re: Adobe confirms it won't support Flash on Android 4.1
#6its not really that adobe won't support it. its that chrome is default and never supported it. I bet we can install ICS's flash and whatever req. libs and it works with other browsers.
If you can install it from the market it will likely just work with Firefox.
Re: Adobe confirms it won't support Flash on Android 4.1
#7here's to hoping that google will step in here as they did with linux and make it run anyway...
I think that's exactly why Adobe did it. Save money by making google do the work for us.
Re: Adobe confirms it won't support Flash on Android 4.1
#8here's to hoping that google will step in here as they did with linux and make it run anyway...
I think that's exactly why Adobe did it. Save money by making google do the work for us.
The company had already said that HTML5 was the way forward on phones and tablets -- now we know just how quickly it's backing up that claim.
Why don't we just move onto HTML5 now? I use iOS devices and completely removed Flash from my Mac months ago. There is a Safari plugin to force the use of the H264 stream from youtube.
Haven't missed Flash at all.
Re: Adobe confirms it won't support Flash on Android 4.1
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think that's exactly why Adobe did it. Save money by making google do the work for us.
The company had already said that HTML5 was the way forward on phones and tablets -- now we know just how quickly it's backing up that claim. Why don't we just move onto HTML5 now? I use iOS devices and completely removed Flash from my Mac months ago. There is a Safari plugin to force the use of the H264 stream from youtube. Haven't missed Flash at all.
I would like to do this but I've found that YouTube's HTML5 player is terrible. Buffering is always erratic and just loading the page causes my browser to freeze for 5-10 seconds (it usually starts working again once the video is loaded into the player). As much as I want to see Flash go away it's still the best choice for web video on a desktop machine (at least on YouTube).
Re: Adobe confirms it won't support Flash on Android 4.1
#10here's to hoping that google will step in here as they did with linux and make it run anyway...
Google will not do that. Chrome doesn't support Flash at all on Android, and since Adobe plans on stopping support for mobile forever, I don't see why they would go back to supporting it in the future, unless Android becomes some sort of mega-successful desktop OS by then, and somehow Flash is still popular on the desktop by then.