Adobe Ships Flash Player 10.2 For Android 3.x

MojoKid writes "Adobe last night announced the release of Flash Player 10.2 for Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) tablets and it is available for download in the Android Market. Eventually, this could prove to be a big deal, but it looks as though a Honeycomb update is needed to take full advantage of the Flash Player 10.2's new features. It's not certain if it was intentional or not, but Adobe's statement points to an updated Honeycomb release, Android 3.1. According to reports, the new Android build is coming out soon for currently shipping Honeycomb tablets like the Xoom and Eee Pad Transformer."

Comments

Does this fix all the Flash apps

[topham]

Does this fix all the Flash apps that don't work well with touch?

Re:Does this fix all the Flash apps

[drb226]

Yep. New feature: the bottom-right corner of the screen acts as a trackpad, which moves a pointer around the screen. It's just like having a mouse, and not having a touchscreen! But wait, there's more! Experimental builds use the front-facing camera like a Kinect, so all you have to do is stand 6 feet away from your tablet and stretch your arm out and awkwardly move the pointer around. There's also a special mirror you can buy for tablets that only have rear-facing cameras.

Uninstalled flash. Less problems and faster we

[shovas]

I uninstalled Flash 10 on my android a few days back. I can't remember what I used it for and it just ended up slowing down the whole browsing experience. Mobile sites these days know they can't use flash so most sites I visit just don't have it. It's great. And the ones that do end up going faster.

The problem with people

[Flipao]

They can't see beyond what's in front of them. Adobe are not just betting on the Flash player running old stuff that was made with mouse and keyboard in mind but also looking to it as a future development platform for touch based devices.

I'm not saying it is a good idea, but making fun of it because you can't play games that require a keyboard is missing the point entirely.

Sympathetic towards Apple though...

[v(*_*)vvvv]

Flash is the only thing that still manages to crash Chrome and my computer. I am not a big fan of Apple, but they did do us web devs a huge favor.

Re:Sympathetic towards Apple though...

[slimjim8094]

'It's advertised'!='customers value highly'

I know a lot of people with Android phones, and not one of them cares about flash - despite what the TV ads say. A few of them installed it, but they all got rid of it in short order because they never used it, or the things they tried to use it for didn't work.

I tried Flash on my iPhone (yes, it's possible - look it up) and it worked fine - for what it worked with. It was sluggish, but that could be because it was a hack. More to the point, Flash is only useful for existing content. Anybody doing new work intended for cellphones doesn't use it - they use HTML5, or a native application. So it's used for applets that already exist - games, shitty restaurant websites, and so on. At least 75% didn't like that I didn't have any "mouse" movements that were not also clicks, and were either impossible to use or just extremely finicky. The keyboard, of course, didn't work at all. I got rid of it after a week, because anything in Flash that didn't require mouse or keyboard input didn't really need to be in Flash in the first place.