Flash 10.1 Running on Android

Apple will never allow it. They will lose control over apps.

HTC Hero already has flash lite support allowing some web pages to work with flash. Although the number is decreasing as sites update the version of flash required.
 
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I'd actually quite like to turn Flash off on my Hero, all it does is make webpages take longer to load (mostly ads). It's really not something I want or need to be able to use on a tiny screen.
 
I agree with the above to be honest. All the pages where you want to see the flash content it wont display, and the things that generally will load are annoying adverts that eat badwidth and it slows the phone right down to a crawl. To be honest, Id rather not have flash content on my mobile.
 
Well there may be some truth to that. The HTC Hero will not be getting Flash 10.1 because it is too slow.

Only Cortex (ARM7) processors and above will be supported.
 
n900 currently supports full flash, i use bbc website all the time for news/football and i watch interviews and clips. most videos plays but some HD videos lag thats when 10.1 with hardware support comes in.

p.s megavideos work great, i watch family guy and other programs on it :)
 
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n900 currently supports full flash, i use bbc website all the time for news/football and i watch interviews and clips. most videos plays but some HD videos lag thats when 10.1 with hardware support comes in.

p.s megavideos work great, i watch family guy and other programs on it :)
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http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=341353

Doesn't have Flash 10, so I imagine some sites don't work. But I believe its planned to have 10.1 like the android devices soon.
 
You can get an app called "beebplayer" for free on the android market anyway, so iplayer works even without flash :) .
 
I gotta agree with people who are doubting the need for it - what is there out that there uses Flash that you can't live without on a daily basis? As others have said there is an iPlayer app that runs without Flash and Youtube also doesn't need it. Flash sites these days tend to be for movies or cars and not the sort of thing you want to browse on the move anyway.

Still, Android having Flash and the iPhone not having Flash is good for the platform I guess!
 
Flash is the most hated and resource hungry web thing out there. It's still buggy on most PC OS's, let alone mobile devices. It's responsible for most annoying page spamming and intrusive adverts. Most of people I know run browsers with flash blockers by default. We can't wait til we see the back of it with introduction of new html and video embedding. Mobile phones should be always free of it and fingers crossed - let's hope the entire web will be free of it soon as well.
 
Read an interesting article the other day by a guy from Adobe. Basically, its not simply hatred for Flash thats delayed it, flash relies very very heavily on a Mouse. Without a Mouse its difficult to get it to work. Things may display, but you wont be able to interact with them.

I can see their point, whats more frustrating? Not being able to see content, or being able to see it but not interact with it...?
 
I agree sometimes it would be annoying and it isn't the most efficient way of displaying video but you can't beat it for general compatability, to be able to stream any video form anywhere is what makes flash great, no stupid youtube app, no weird iplayer. etc etc.
 
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