Flash Player removed from Android • Non-Gaming • General Non-gaming • Eurogamer.net

Deleted user 15 August 2012 13:38:35

Google finally admit to how shit flash is on mobiles and removed the plug in from the store. Wonder if the Android disciples will follow.

Are we finally seeing the end?

Deleted user 15 August 2012 13:39:45

Say it three times in a mirror and Steve Jobs will come back to life.

craigy Staff 15 Aug 2012 13:40:50 9,500 posts
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Did u now that the 4S in "iPhone 4S" stands for "for Steve"?

Fab4 15 Aug 2012 13:51:51 8,924 posts
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I thought it was Adobe who pulled support for it on Android.

Dougs 15 Aug 2012 13:56:45 100,414 posts
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Fab4 wrote:
I thought it was Adobe who pulled support for it on Android.

I thought that too.

Deleted user 15 August 2012 14:07:32

Fail on my part. Was reading some of the comments raging at Google and got mixed up

neilka 15 Aug 2012 14:12:27 24,021 posts
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Another triumph

Deleted user 15 August 2012 14:13:53

, \o/

mrpon 15 Aug 2012 14:20:23 37,366 posts
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I'd love mowgli to be representing me.

Deleted user 15 August 2012 14:22:31

I... Strongly regret this thread.

THFourteen 15 Aug 2012 14:24:40 54,987 posts
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Your honour, the accused has a proven history of misinformation, and as such i move for his testimony to be stricken from the record

jellyhead 15 Aug 2012 14:43:57 24,355 posts
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Ok, so what difference will this make to my ICS phone?

Kay 15 Aug 2012 15:17:55 21,321 posts
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Shouldn't make a difference if it's already installed on ICS, it seems Adobe are only stopping Flash support from Jelly Bean onwards. It does still work on JB but there are issues, apparently.

This was actually announced ages back, and was already on the info page for the download on the store.

warlockuk 15 Aug 2012 15:19:27 19,519 posts
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mowgli wrote:
Fail on my part. Was reading some of the comments raging at Google and got mixed up

Recorded for all time...

Deleted user 15 August 2012 15:35:22

mongli

sport 15 Aug 2012 15:38:27 17,064 posts
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mowgli wrote:
Thatcher dropped Flash!!!

warlockuk 15 Aug 2012 15:53:01 19,519 posts
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DEATH TO MING!

Deleted user 15 August 2012 17:14:13

Just for the avoidance of doubt, I hate you all.

ElNuevo9 15 Aug 2012 17:31:55 14,164 posts
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sport wrote:

mowgli wrote:
Thatcher dropped Flash!!!

Thatcher flashed me once.

Saucy bitch.

ILoveThrashMetal 15 Aug 2012 19:59:29 1,066 posts
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rodpad wrote:
A sad day for mobile porn.

Beat me to it.how are we supposed to watch porn on the go?

mothercruncher 15 Aug 2012 20:25:35 19,474 posts
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It's alright, Ima working on a porn zoetrope alternative as we speak...

Deleted user 15 August 2012 20:54:16

Pooped his pants.

So, seriously, for just a moment, what is going to replace flash for video playback on mobile devices? MP4? Some google developed thing? Silverlight?

spamdangled 15 Aug 2012 20:55:23 31,803 posts
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mowgli wrote:
Google finally admit to how shit flash is on mobiles and removed the plug in from the store. Wonder if the Android disciples will follow.

Are we finally seeing the end?

Ironic, coming from an Apple fanboy.

spamdangled 15 Aug 2012 21:00:37 31,803 posts
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Apostle wrote:
Pooped his pants.

So, seriously, for just a moment, what is going to replace flash for video playback on mobile devices? MP4? Some google developed thing? Silverlight?

Doesn't HTML5 support video playback?

uiruki 15 Aug 2012 21:03:02 5,975 posts
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Apostle wrote:
Pooped his pants.

So, seriously, for just a moment, what is going to replace flash for video playback on mobile devices? MP4? Some google developed thing? Silverlight?

It definitely seems possible to support within-browser video on mobile through HTML5. I don't know about Android, as I don't watch video on my phone, but on my iPad at least the Giant Bomb video player seems to just feed a stream to the iOS video player, which then plays happily enough. Only issue there, I guess, would be the lack of custom accoutrements on the player as (on GB at least) the player looks like the built-in one.

edit: Just tried it in Android Chrome and it makes a complete fucking hash of it as I don't have auto-rotate turned on.

Edited by uiruki at 21:06:01 15-08-2012

dominalien 15 Aug 2012 21:27:25 10,703 posts
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darkmorgado wrote:

Apostle wrote:
Pooped his pants.

So, seriously, for just a moment, what is going to replace flash for video playback on mobile devices? MP4? Some google developed thing? Silverlight?
Doesn't HTML5 support video playback?

It does, but there are differences of opinion on exactly what format that's supposed to be in.

Flash is/was a big pile of turd, especially on mobile, but at least it kind of worked. It will not be missed, provided a standard can be agreed upon.