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Adobe disables new Android Flash installs on August 15, 2012

Christopher Park

Christopher Park

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Adobe previously announced that they would stop allowing new installations of Adobe Flash for Android. That day is tomorrow August 15, 2012. Instead, Adobe will be putting their support behind HTML5, the format that many multimedia sites have adopted instead of Flash.

Android 4.1 Jelly Bean doesn’t have support for Flash in Chrome, and subsequent releases of the operating system will be Flash-less. I discussed before that I didn’t think Flash even mattered on mobile anymore and HTML5 looks like a better solution.

On the Google Play page, Adobe states ” NOTE: FLASH PLAYER IS NO LONGER BEING UPDATED FOR NEW DEVICE CONFIGURATIONS. FLASH PLAYER WILL NOT BE SUPPORTED ON ANY ANDROID VERSION BEYOND ANDROID 4.0.x.”

If you want to install Adobe Flash, today is the last day because it will no longer be downloadable through Google Play.

You may be able to circumvent using Google Play if you can find an apk and side-load, but independent developers will already have a fix by the time the cutoff happens.

Adobe has stated they will still update older installs until 2013.

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