'Future updates to Flash Player will not work. If a device is upgraded from Android 4.0 to Android 4.1, the current version of Flash Player may exhibit unpredictable behavior, as it is not certified for use with Android 4.1.

'The easiest way to ensure ongoing access to Flash Player on Android 4.0 or earlier devices is to use certified devices and ensure that the Flash Player is either pre-installed by the manufacturer or installed from Google Play Store before August 15th. This post provides an update on what this means for ongoing access to the Flash Player browser plugin for Android in the Google Play Store. 'We announced last November that we are focusing our work with Flash on PC browsing and mobile apps packaged with Adobe AIR, and will be discontinuing our development of the Flash Player for mobile browsers. 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. + some information on the Android versions involved:Īdobe: '.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. Here's Adobe's official announcement about ending support for Flash Player on mobile browsers.Īlso, a more specific earlier ADOBE statement on stopping Flash Player support for newer mobile devices There's a LATER article on How to Install Flash on Kindle Fire HD and HDX Yr 2013-2014 tablets to play Flash on websites. Most of the text on this page was moved from the blog article on How to install flash to play flash videos on Kindle Fire HDX and HD devices ( Yr 2012), for websites using Flash.

This is a brief history of Adobe's dropping of Flash Player support for newer mobile devices, first noticed in the Fall, 2012 by owners of the Google Nexus and Amazon Kindle Fire HD tablets.

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