Flash Player

[waterman54]

Am thinking about getting a Google Nexus 7 tablet. The only thing thats putting me off is being unable to view Flash content.

ios doesnt support Flash and neither does Jellybean (and presumably neither will future versions of Android), so i'm guessing you'll see lots of content changing from Flash to HTML5 quite soon, otherwise it'll only be people who have older versions like Gingerbread etc who'll be able to view the content!

 

[jd914]

I personally don't care for Flash and can live without it. You can view Flash content on the Nexus 7 by side loading the Flash apk (google it) and then install Firefox beta or Xscope browser.

BTW iOS never supported Flash and Google also has stopped supporting Flash and that's a hint to move on as they did. The ability for a device to run Flash shouldn't be a deal breaker as it's dead in the water as far as the mobile world goes.

 

[HisSvt2]

Side load flash install Firefox done

 

[anon(847090)]

you can side load flash and use it in few easy steps.

 

[sparksd]

See the sticky: http://forums.androidcentral.com/go...ad-before-posting-new-thread-about-flash.html

 

[dmmarck]

See the sticky: http://forums.androidcentral.com/go...ad-before-posting-new-thread-about-flash.html

This. Please direct all comments there so as to guarantee a faster response .

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[snaqvi91]

Some TV channels (like ctv, global tv) let you stream their shows on a web browser through flash. Apart from installing flash through an apk thing, is there any other way to watch those videos until they move to HTML5?

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[snaqvi91]

Anyone?

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[anon(847090)]

Some TV channels (like ctv, global tv) let you stream their shows on a web browser through flash. Apart from installing flash through an apk thing, is there any other way to watch those videos until they move to HTML5?

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you can look for an app that stream these contents. other than that there isnt a way. this is the exact reason why propitiatory web is bad and everyone are trying to move to HTML5

 

[MJKearney]

A lot of organizations have YouTube channels or Facebook pages where you can view their videos without flash.

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[Unicorn Rancher]

ios doesnt support Flash and neither does Jellybean (and presumably neither will future versions of Android), so i'm guessing you'll see lots of content changing from Flash to HTML5 quite soon, otherwise it'll only be people who have older versions like Gingerbread etc who'll be able to view the content!

Adobe has only announced flash retirement for mobile devices. ?People who have, laptop PCs, desktop PCs, and their iEquivalents can use flash for the foreseeable future.

 

[Canuck Nation]

Try downloading and installing Firefox Beta from the Google Play App Store as it does support flash player. Then go to your setting menu, open the security settings and check off the " Unknown Sources" box. Download the latest version of Adobe Flash Player and install it. I've been using it for a few days now and so far so good. I would probably go back and uncheck the Unknown Sources box as well. I hope this works out for you as I was disappointed myself that android 4.1 didn't support Flash Player, but I'm happy now

 

[steve1time]

How can you say its dead in the water when a majority of web sites still use flash and have no plans to change. Flash is only not supported for mobile devices.

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[YAYTech]

How can you say its dead in the water when a majority of web sites still use flash and have no plans to change. Flash is only not supported for mobile devices.

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And there are workarounds that aren't that difficult to implement.

Websites have to have some kind of pressure to move on to better, supported technologies. When the maker of a technology no longer supports it (in this case Adobe / Flash), I can hardly blame manufacturers not putting in the effort to support it either, even if it's still in use. If Google continued to make products that officially supported Flash, what is the likelihood that they're going to get slammed with a bunch of support issues if there are glitches with Flash? It could quickly spell additional costs for Google, which they would just have to build into the device pricing.

Yes it's a pain, but that's life, and the workarounds aren't that tough.

 

[natehoy]

How can you say its dead in the water when a majority of web sites still use flash and have no plans to change. Flash is only not supported for mobile devices.

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The original statement was "dead in the water as far as the mobile world goes". And that's absolutely true - Adobe, the author of Flash, has pulled support for it. That means it's been removed (at Adobe's request) from the Play Store (it never was in the Apple App Store, since Apple never wanted Flash to start with). Adobe will not be releasing bug or security fixes for Flash for Mobile, nor will any future releases be coming out.

If Adobe comes out with Flash 12 and web sites start implementing it and requiring it as a minimum version, Android devices will start slowly losing access to those sites. If a major vulnerability is found in our current version, we'll be vulnerable until we remove Flash entirely.

The sites that use Flash and have no plans to change will simply become increasingly irrelevant in the world of mobile devices and tablets, since they are authoring their sites on a toolset that is specifically being made incompatible with mobile devices by the author of that toolset. And given the increasing number of people who primarily access the Internet on a mobile device or tablet, the web site authors are simply becoming increasingly irrelevant, period.

 

[A-android-B]

Honestly it doesn't matter what adobe does, because as long as a majority of websites use flash, one of the great minds in the universe will either make an open source flash player or hack an older version to work with newer android version. Dudes and dudettes, we got flash on the optimus v for sakes.

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[retsaw]

It absolutely matters what Adobe does. There have been open source flash players around for years, and you know what? They're not very good. Adobe not supporting Flash won't suddenly inspire a genius super programmer to come along and make a decent Flash clone.Flash on mobile devices is all but dead, we just need website owners to wake up and realise they need to start catering for (non-Apple) mobile devices without Flash.

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[GMJeff]

The websites just need to change to HTML 5. The standard has been pushed for a couple of years now.

The "majority" of sites keeping Flash alive tend to be porn sites. Havens for malware, spyware, hackers, Trojan horses etc.

HTML 5 is a plus for websites due to richer content as well as running that content in the browser, not through a plugin/app installed on the device.

Almost every, if not every, browser now is built around the HTML 5 standards.

Note2 or Note10, that is the question

 

[TomsAndroid]

Flash works great for me too!

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