Adobe Officially Kills New Flash Installations On Android

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @03:29AM 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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Re:I wonder how many fools.. by Desler · 2012-08-15 03:44 · 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.
Re:Good riddance. by bluescrn · 2012-08-15 03:58 · 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)