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Adobe Officially Kills New Flash Installations On Android

Posted by Unknown on from the ding-dong-the-witch-is-dead dept.

hypnosec writes "Adobe has announced that it will be making the Flash Player for Android unavailable for new devices and users from August 15 in continuation of its plan to discontinue development of Flash Player for mobile browsers. The company announced its decision through a blog post and further said that only those users who have already installed the flash player on their devices will be receiving any future updates. To ensure that this is the case, Adobe is going to make configuration changes on its Google Play Flash Player page."

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  1. Re:I wonder how many fools.. by Desler · · Score: 5, Informative

    You do realize that Flash videos are just H.264 in MP4, right? It's been this way for years. Almost no one uses Sorenson for Flash video anymore.

  2. Re:Good riddance. by bluescrn · · Score: 5, Informative

    The thing is, Flash on mobile is very alive. Just not in the web browser.

    Look into Flash+AIR, you can build Flash content into mobile apps for iOS and Android, and this support some of the latest+greatest features, such as Stage3D (hardware-accelerated 3D graphics API)

  3. Re:Good riddance. by h4rr4r · · Score: 3, Informative

    There is an android youtube app. On top of this youtube supports HTML5, so you don't need flash for it.

  4. Re:Good riddance. by bluescrn · · Score: 3, Informative

    But you don't 'install AIR'. You install just-another-app, and never know that it's made with Flash (unless you're really looking for it)

  5. Re:grab a copy now? (is it possible) by squiggleslash · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes: http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/archived-flash-player-versions.html

    Just to be clear: you'll be able to download them for the foreseeable future. Whether they'll work in future versions of Android remains to be seen.

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  6. Re:Not available on mobile by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    You're at least a year behind; videos that play an ad spot before viewing work fine on HTML5 now, or at least they did on my phone yesterday.

  7. Re:Good riddance. by AuMatar · · Score: 3, Informative

    Multiple cores isn't going to help, processing is done in a single thread. Nor is more RAM, unless RAM was the problem to begin with. Most likely the bottleneck is the CPU, and I doubt you're really using a 3x faster CPU. Even if you are a 2-3x faster clock doesn't mean running code 2-3x faster- things like cache misses and mispredicted branches don't scale. Also remember that IPC is generally lower on ARM than on comparable x86 chips, so comparing raw numbers isn't that much of a help.

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  8. Re:Good riddance. by rrohbeck · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yup. Flash always sucked on low powered CPUs like Atom. It'll consume 20% on a modern fast CPU with accelerated video and if you don't have video acceleration it'll be much higher.
    On an Atom Netbook with Intel GMA under Linux it's unusable. I disabled the plugin, downloaded the .flv files and played them with VLC - no problem.

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