Android 4.4 KitKat blocked Flash Player for browsers

Once the Flash Player from Adobe was the selling point for Android smartphones and tablets. The resource-hungry plug-in but is offered already for almost a year no longer directly over the Google Play Store to download and no longer even further developed by Abobe for mobile devices. Nevertheless, some websites still rely on Flash content and can not be viewed with all appliances accordingly. Now Google has support for Flash blocked directly into Android 4.4 KitKat .

Interestingly, many manufacturers and alternative browsers still offered the opportunity to view Flash content. For this purpose, the latest version of Flash Player has been installed directly from the factory and was able to get the browser to use. Also, you could download the Flash Player when required as an APK, install itself, and accordingly use yet. This is with Android 4.4 KitKat no longer possible, since Google, according to Dolphin has removed the corresponding APIs in the latest version.

To display the last possibility Flash content on an Android 4.4 smartphone or tablet, would be with pre-rendered results. This web pages are processed on a server and only the results sent to the terminal. Exactly this makes as the Puffin Web Browser.It can then be probably richer without problems on an Android smartphone or tablet flash games to play.

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For us, this is now not too great loss. Really extensive pages with Flash running on smartphones and tablets, even with high end specifications never really perfect.Annoying Flash banner and advertising are no longer as indicated, although the advertising industry has of course noticed and now increasingly relies on HTML5-based advertising. In the end, Apple has once again proven to be so far ahead thinking company, which has waived the integration of Flash for the iOS devices since the first day.

This affects the time being, of course, only a few devices, since Android 4.4 KitKat so far only on a few Nexus devices has arrived and the G Moto Motorola. In future versions, but it will definitely be no more flash.