• Flash Player exits Android store
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[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19267140#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa[/url]
In before 2 pages of instructions to install a custom ROM to get flash back and links to open source flash player alternatives that you have to get using GIT and compile yourself from scratch.
[QUOTE=garry;37247980]In before 2 pages of instructions to install a custom ROM to get flash back and links to open source flash player alternatives that you have to get using GIT and compile yourself from scratch.[/QUOTE] damn right
You don't need custom rom for that, just root.
Good riddance.
I remember when everyone complained that iPhone didn't have flash then suddenly people stopped ranting about it cause flash on mobile sucks
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;37248083]I remember when everyone complained that iPhone didn't have flash then suddenly people stopped ranting about it cause flash on mobile sucks[/QUOTE] My old T-Mobile Wing ran Windows Mobile 6 and I could load stuff like flash animations fine on it. This was in 2007.
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;37248030]Or you sideload the APK file in 2 seconds flat. [editline]15th August 2012[/editline] Not even that, all android phones let you sideload apps.[/QUOTE] ATT phones will have to be rooted as they have some moral issue against sideloading apps. Useful link though, I'll probably grab that.
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;37248193]It may not work perfectly, but the point is it works, and its there if you absolutely need it.[/QUOTE] I have an iPhone (jailbroken, of course), and I have never encountered something where I needed flash. Most sites have some other form of video player enabled for the people who like to browse on their phone.
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;37248333]Wow, you can probably still sideload the app via ADB though.[/QUOTE] But ADB is scary command line stuff :v: The average user won't want to go through that. [editline]15th August 2012[/editline] And anyway, good riddance, Flash on android literally did nothing but slow down the browser by default if I recall correctly.
Can't adobe just pull the plug forever on all platforms and make something that co-operates smooth with html5?
[QUOTE=Fish_poke;37248397]I have an iPhone (jailbroken, of course), and I have never encountered something where I needed flash. Most sites have some other form of video player enabled for the people who like to browse on their phone.[/QUOTE] This, most websites especially video sites have all taken the HTML5 side, the only html5 player I hate is YouTube, it's buggy but on my wp7 it works like a charm
[QUOTE=kimr120;37248765]Can't adobe just pull the plug forever on all platforms and make something that co-operates smooth with html5?[/QUOTE] Why pull the plug? The multitude of existing content that exists won't vanish if they focus on html5. Don't see why it has to be one or the other. (yes I do understand that they're doing it in this case so they don't have to bother with maintaining it)
Flash better be around for the desktop for a long time. It works so much smoother and better than many HTML5 features.
Flash should finally eat shit and die.
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;37248545]Every porn site ever, specifically when you want high quality video and not shitty 480x320 iPod resolution.[/QUOTE] What shitty porn sites are you going to? They pretty much all have mp4's now - and are usually better quality than the flash alternative.
Cant play super deep throat or watch free porn on my droid now How will i live on
[QUOTE=DesolateGrun;37250569]Cant play super deep throat or watch free porn on my droid now How will i live on[/QUOTE] As if the input for any of this worked well on a touchscreen anyway
A lot of streams still don't support HTML5, it's pretty difficult to find a good sport stream without flash, unless you use something like soapcast. Anyway it will live on as an .apk, so I guess it's alright.
You know what, this annoyed me at first, but then I read through and saw this: "The BBC is working with Adobe on an alternative video player for Android, ensuring audiences with Android devices continue to enjoy BBC iPlayer." Now I'm sort of excited to see great apps that I can't have because I don't have Flash become available to me.
At least they still have AIR for mobile devices.
[QUOTE=Ricool06;37250987]You know what, this annoyed me at first, but then I read through and saw this: "The BBC is working with Adobe on an alternative video player for Android, ensuring audiences with Android devices continue to enjoy BBC iPlayer." Now I'm sort of excited to see great apps that I can't have because I don't have Flash become available to me.[/QUOTE] Yeah, that fact you need Arm v7 just to use iPlayer is a little silly.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;37249345]Flash should finally eat shit and die.[/QUOTE] I've said this in a lot of the flash hating threads, flash shouldn't be killed off. Legacy websites such as Newgrounds etc. will die quickly if one day every browser in existence gave up on flash There's a lot of places that use flash and would struggle if they had to switch to HTML5 because right now I haven't seen proper GUI programs supporting html5
[QUOTE=Protocol7;37250731]As if the input for any of this worked well on a touchscreen anyway[/QUOTE] its better than nothing?
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