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Adobe: Flash will not be supported in Android OS 4.1

By on June 29, 2012 at 8:46am in Mobile News


In November Adobe stated that “We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with new mobile device configurations (chipset, browser, OS version, etc.) following the upcoming release of Flash Player 11.1 for Android and BlackBerry PlayBook. We will of course continue to provide critical bug fixes and security updates for existing device configurations.” This direction is leading them towards HTML5 for mobile.

Truth is setting in today as Adobe posted a note on their company blog that confirmed Android 4.1 Jelly Bean will not have Flash Player support, plus declared that effective August 15th they will pull the app from Google Play. “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.”

Regarding 4.1, Adobe says they have not tested or completed the certification process and confirmed that “there will be no certified implementations of Flash Player for Android 4.1.” A complete list of certified Android devices that support Flash has been posted on their site, but Adobe notes that if any of these get upgraded to OS 4.1 Jelly Bean you might experience “exhibit unpredictable behavior” and they reiterate that “future updates to Flash Player will not work,” thus “we recommend uninstalling Flash Player on devices which have been upgraded to Android 4.1.” Boom.

Source: Adobe
Via: The Verge

  • Noc

    Not surprising cine Apople owns part of Adobe. CM9 and up will continue to support it anyway,

    • James

      Would you mind providing a link to an article where it states that Apple owns “part” of Adobe? Considering Apple and Adobe have been enemies for some time now, I don’t see that being accurate.

      But if I’m wrong, I’ll owe you an apology.

    • RIMLies@gmail.com

      FLASH??

      RIM??

      BB10??

      Zombies??

    • Dewey

      You’re right James, you’d think AAPL would be more friendly towards Adobe considering they single-handedly got them through not one but two very dark times in their company history.

      Then again Steve Jobs was a jerk so not surprised.

  • Lexcyn

    Well that’s unfortunate.

  • Noc

    I meant Apple. lol

  • Zomby

    This kinda sucks. I know that in order to force adoption of HTML5 they need to stop developing for flash at some point. Unfortunately, at the moment a lot of websites are still dependant on flash and hardly a day goes by where I don’t use the flash capability of my phone to properly view a website. I just hope that by the time I upgrade to my next phone (wich should be in a year or so) that the web will have moved on to HTML5.

  • Albert

    That’s sad because this was one of the main features I liked about Android rather than iOS

  • wewewi

    Google should simply buy Adobe.

    Bam. End of story.

    • Andrew Goldenberg

      Why would they do that? Google is one of the driving forces behind HTML5…..

  • Andrew Goldenberg

    The truth is flash is a dying platform in terms of content. With HTML5 and modern browsers you can do everything flash does.

    The only thing flash is good for any more is providing ads and drawing cartoons.

    Everything else can be done with HTML5 for the most part.

    The only way this will affect you is if your Android device is somehow running IE

    • Hubert

      If you seriously think HTML5 + Javascript + various JS libraries can do everything that Flash is able to do then you simple have no idea what Flash is capable of. Sadly, the truth is that although Flash may be outdated, there just isn’t any internet technology that can replace what Flash can do today. And frankly, HTML5 alone will never be able to do everything Flash can do because of various limitation to the technology.

  • God

    This was one of their main advantage on apple and WP. But like steve jobs already said: “Adobe Flash is an outdated technology”

    Html 5 <3

  • Graeme

    That is stupid in my opinion. Flash is dying but its not completely gone. At least support it until its completely gone because its still a huge advantage over iOS.

  • Jeff

    It’ll be the worst when someone is standing there with their 4.1 device and cant see something on a site, when that punk friend whips out his 2.3 device and is like “I Got dis”

  • wewewi

    Indeed, maybe HTML5 represents the Future..

    But I want my Jelly Bean share RIGHT NOW,

    And many web sites I like will still use Flash tomorrow.

  • Brad F

    So… does this mean Apple had the right idea to never support Flash in the first place?

    • Hammam

      Flash died because Apple told people it should die. This is a stupid move from Adobe. At lease wait until most websites stop using flash before killing it.

      I won’t be upgrading to 4.1 anytime soon.

  • dv

    Wtffffff? How am i suppose to watch full browser videos now?

  • saku

    That’s a shame. Looks like my galaxy s2 was the last android purchase for me. Goodbye android. Hello wp8. Flash was the only reason I continued using android. Use it daily.

    • Paul

      Do you read the other comments or do any research on the subject? let me reiterate, flash is no longer necessarily useful, and will always be so now because of the updates done to html that allows the same functionality. Flash, at this point, is only necessary if you want to make games or cartoons on that horrible platform(though admittedly, it is still a very useful cartoon production tool). Most flash games you see now will be quietly replaced by html 5, and 3d unity browser games.

    • saku49

      yeah i do. thanks. i stream live sports, nhl, nba, tennis, ufc, etc. free through my phone and onto to my tv. i doubt html5 with be working with those websites to help make them available any time soon.

  • Android4Life

    It is sad that even Adobe knows Mobile Flash is dead but the fantards still think it is a feature.

  • Shaggyskunk

    If people are worried about sites that still use flash, it’s up to the websites to make sure that people can see them, that’s if the site owners care. It’s kinda tough to find a place to tie your horse up too.

  • wantit

    Looks like I won’t upgrade from my 4.0.4 on S3 for a while.

  • Awkward Turtle

    well this both concerning amd aggravating. i want my flash – it’s not dead yet.

  • dstruct2k

    Why has nobody pointed out the *very* slow adoption rate of new versions of Android, on both old AND new devices? There’s still “new” devices shipping with 2.3 today. By the time Jellybean has reached widespread adoption, the latest version of Android will be Marshmallow and Flash will have been officially “dead” for over a year.

    Don’t worry about things that won’t be a problem; Adobe is the one calling the shots here, and if they deem Flash dead, that means there probably won’t be any new versions of the Flash authoring software, the desktop browser plugin won’t be pushed down people’s throats, and HTML5 will be the “weapon-of-choice” for the majority of content authors.

  • Wahid

    So will HTML5 allow us to stream videos from our web browser on our Android platform? This will be a huge problem if I can’t, since it is the main reason I jumped from Blackberry & Apple to Android. If this is the case, then I might have to jump to Windows Phone 8 or back to the Apple ship, since we all know RIM’s last delay has basically sunk the small sail boat that they had left :(

  • Hub

    What an excellent news. Google has been enable to kill Flash so far while they could have.

    I always said that Apple made the right move.

  • jason4

    Jobs was right again…. ya….. . he was.

  • goozy

    HTML5 may be the future, but it’s no where near ready to take over Flash in terms of features. Sure HTML5 might be good used for videos, but those are not the only uses for Flash. You can’t make games/apps using HTML5 like you can with Flash. Also try watching movies/shows on 1Channel without flash.

    All those people who think Flash is useless have been brainwashed by Apple into thinking that.

    Make no mistake, Stevie boy killed off Flash because he wanted to control the iOS ecosystem. You think people would bother buying apps when there are millions of Flash games out there?

  • superman

    This is a mistake. Flash used to be a problem because of it using the phones resources but with today’s high spec phones its no longer an issue. If anything flash should be embraced more then ever not disabled or given no support. The same people not supporting flash are the people running companies like rim.

  • SpeedyGonzales

    Yes, Flash is slowly going away but we knew that already.
    What Adobe is saying in the article, anyone having/wanting Flash Player would still get updated after August 15th, IF you already have it installed!
    If you don’t have Adobe Flash Player installed already and your phone didn’t get Flash tested and approved for it, Google Play Store will not offer it to you anymore after August 15th. If you already have it installed, you’ll still get updates after August 15th.
    So keep a copy of the Adobe Flash saved.

  • Aman bassi

    So i cant watch flash videos anymore, like hulu or discovery or anything like that?

  • Keith

    Since Google was too dumb to make the decision to not support Flash in mobile, I’m very glad to see Adobe made the decision for them.

  • Dan Zen

    A couple things… Steve Jobs was right that legacy Flash sites (not designed for mobile) did not run well in mobile browsers and it was perhaps a good idea to “ban” them.

    Now, as Superman says, processing is available – but with legacy sites it was more than just processing – it was dimensions. What could have worked is a ban on legacy sites published to Flash Player 11 and below then put out a version 12 of the Player and let any Flash sites targeting player 12 work on mobile – because now designers know they are targeting mobile. If Adobe had some guts that is what they would have pushed.

    The other thing is that Flash powers AIR which Adobe is still supporting for cross-platform mobile apps. I have launched four or five AIR apps and they work just fine and took me an hour to publish to iOS, Android and Playbook. I then get to use the tools that I am comfortable with and avoid the various cross-platform / cross browser issues that HTML currently has.

    Remember as well that Flash is now just getting GPU access – so any complaints about speed, etc. is gone – given the right coding.

    I believe in open source – but I do not believe that it should kill closed source with smear campaigns. Of course it does not help that Adobe does not have the marketing / cult clout that Apple has. I really do not think there are Adobe “fan boys” as you put it – only serious developers that have had their world turned upside down due to marketing misinformation. It is a shame that after years of many creative people using Flash to advance interactive media that there is this level of anamosity towards Flash.

    • superman

      Possibly the most well written comment I’ve seen on here. And that was what I was trying to say.

      Apple with their CPU/gpu and small screen couldn’t leverage flash on the ios without it costing them money to offer it to their consumers. Instead of having flash as a consumer priority, they decided that money in the bank was better. Plus licensing etc. So they tricked their users into thinking the world’s most used web platform wasn’t needed and of course it worked. Sad.

      I have lost respect for adobe as a programmer and I hope another company leverages html5 tools killing the CS suit and adobe folds in the web creation sector.

  • Mika

    Why ? :(

    I know its becoming outdated, but still, I’m still using Flash-based website a lot!

  • Randy

    Looks like I won’t be updating to 4.1 Jelly Bean any time soon then.

  • Hank

    Good news for skyfire is guess.

  • rift

    will this mean that even the nexus 7 or other jellybean tabkes wont get flash? because that would be disappointing!
    please reply! very appreciated.

  • lukeiphone

    So now, why would I get Android over iOS?

  • nathen

    Lmao.
    So many dumb comments.
    Its called evolution, Apple is going Html5, Google is going Html5. And even win-win will go HTML 5.
    THIS is the future,get used to it. Do the research before posting little child like remarks “whaaaaa I’m not going to upgrade or buy another phone because no adobe, “….pathetic