Adobe Stops Flash Player Support For Android 332
New submitter Craefter writes "Adobe has finally seen the same light Steve Jobs did in 2010 and is now committed to putting mobile Flash player in the history books as soon as possible. Adobe will not develop and test Flash player for Android 4.1 and will now focus on a PC browsing and apps. In a blog post, they wrote, 'Devices that don’t have the Flash Player provided by the manufacturer typically are uncertified, meaning the manufacturer has not completed the certification testing requirements. In many cases users of uncertified devices have been able to download the Flash Player from the Google Play Store, and in most cases it worked. However, with Android 4.1 this is no longer going to be the case, as we have not continued developing and testing Flash Player for this new version of Android and its available browser options. There will be no certified implementations of Flash Player for Android 4.1. Beginning August 15th we will use the configuration settings in the Google Play Store to limit continued access to Flash Player updates to only those devices that have Flash Player already installed. Devices that do not have Flash Player already installed are increasingly likely to be incompatible with Flash Player and will no longer be able to install it from the Google Play Store after August 15th.'"
Re:What instead of Flash? (Score:5, Informative)
I imagine Adobe would suggest they use Edge, but you could use Animator, Sencha, Radi, or you could make your cartoon into a normal video and post that.
Lots of ways to skin that cat.
Re:What instead of Flash? (Score:3, Informative)
I haven't read what he said, but Flash was a piece of shit that should have been killed LONG before the iphone
Then what would you prefer that animators use instead of Flash for their web animations?
HTML5
It's not dead yet (Score:4, Informative)
They have only killed it for Linux and Android, and it never existed for iOS. You can still target Windows and OSX users with it, do not despair.
Re:Good (Score:4, Informative)
The android browser can be set to start plugins on click instead of autorun. It has had this feature for a long time.
This Ain't Fantasy Land (Score:5, Informative)
The headline isn't entirely accurate. Adobe is only supporting flash on Android devices in which it is currently installed. In August, if you don't have flash installed, you ain't gettin' it. They've also come up with a list of "certified" Android hardware whatever in the hell that's actually supposed to accomplish.
Now then, notice that Adobe continues to support and develop Flash for the Windows platform. This is the largest marketshare of desktops out there. If Adobe "saw the light" , and conceeded to some Apple fanboi fantasy land, they would most certainly be dropping all Flash support across the board and declare it "not a profitable direction for the company" or some other such reason.
The fact that Adobe has Nixed the Linux version of Flash for FireFox, and now raising issue with Android, leads me to wonder why they are focused on crippling the two most open and alternative systems out there.
Re:Where are all those Flash is the Future ppl now (Score:2, Informative)
Bullshit. If Jobs wanted to lead the way to destroying flash he should have banned it from OS X too. The fact that he didn't just proves what everyone has said all along that the real intention of banning Flash on iOS is to eliminate an avenue for people to make money selling stuff without paying an Apple tax.
Re:What instead of Flash? (Score:5, Informative)
you could make your cartoon into a normal video and post that.
This bloats the file size by a factor of ten, which costs the publisher ten times as much to send and the viewers ten times as much to receive.
Re:Big bucks in motion (Score:4, Informative)
Wow, you obviously have no clue as to the history of Apple & Adobe.
See desktop publishing tools. Here's a start:
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2010/04/14/chronicles-of-conflict-the-history-of-adobe-vs-apple/ [roughlydrafted.com]
Adobe fucked Apple at it's low. Apple took this chance to pay them back, and then some.
Re:But the rest of the web still uses it... (Score:5, Informative)
Lots of restaurants still have their menus or even entire sites done in flash. I notice because I use Chrome on android which does not have flash and have to switch to firefox when I hit a site that depends on it.
Then complain to those restaurants. Tell the manager/owner: "Did you know that the menus on your website don't work on the iPad or iPhone?" (Don't bother mentioning Android; just stick to the iPad/iPhone since everyone knows what it is.) Most likely this crap was done by a cut-rate web development shop without their knowledge. I don't think most restaurants want to lose business from mobile users if they can help it.
Re:What instead of Flash? (Score:0, Informative)
Correct. Never heard of them. Just checked them out...wow, what year is this? I feel like I just paid a visit to 1998.
How should things like those be made in a post-Flash world?
They shouldn't.
Re:Where are all those Flash is the Future ppl now (Score:4, Informative)