Flash Player downloads from Play Store to cease starting August 15

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Last year, Adobe announced that it is going to stop the development of mobile Flash Player for Android. Adding further nails in that coffin, Adobe has now announced that Flash Player won't be supported in Android 4.1. A prime example of this is the new Nexus 7 tablet, that ships without Flash support.

Furthermore, Adobe has announced that it will cease new Flash Player downloads from the Google Play Store, starting August 15. This means you will no longer see the Flash Player in the Play Store if it is not already installed on your device. Devices that already have the Flash Player installed will continue to receive minor updates and bug fixes post August 15.

Since the Flash Player is not supported in Android 4.1, Adobe is urging users to uninstall it before updating to Android 4.1, as it will not work properly. Also, any future updates to the Flash Player will not work under Android 4.1.

So it seems the era of Flash on Android has come to an end. What was once touted as a key selling point for Android devices is now being killed by its own maker. It doesn't help that Google too wants to distance itself from this archaic technology, as seen by the lack of Flash support in Chrome for Android even under Android 4.0.

It goes without saying that Apple has been instrumental in bringing this change. Sooner or later everyone was going to realize that the emperor was wearing no clothes. It's just that Apple was the first to point this out. Hopefully, the web developers will now finally wake up and adopt more modern technologies such as HTML5 for creating web content.

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[CranialBlaze]

Impressive news, Im guessing adobe is then close to completing EDGE then, can think of no better way to spearhead its arrival than the removal of the only other realistic option.

The company I work for has already started doing away with flash, our last remaining flash client has asked to see all HTML5 work we develop so they can consider using it for future competitions and promotions as the big boss spend little time int he office and own an iPad so he is usually quite frustrated when he cannot actually view/test the work he is paying for. The flip side being that he knows much of the target market sits in the same boat so going HTML 5 is essentially a no brainer.

We had quite a lot of fun putting this together https://www.facebook.com/cheapflights/app_306234199460162. My boss being the office flash expert himself was surprised at the actual simplicity compared to what he would of had to do using flash especially with all the required facebook intergrations, with me being the web developer all the new HTML5 stuff pretty much ends up on my desk, which is cool, get paid to learn and help pad my portfolio.