Flash Player on Android? Yes indeed.

by Nicholas Ahn on Nov 17, 2008 with 145 Comments">145

As if the title didn’t say it all: today Adobe announced a port of its Flash Player 10 for Android phones. In their demonstration at their MAX event, a T-Mobile G1 was said to have been shown running flash. The release of a flash player for Android marks the collapse of yet another barrier that marked the line between mobile and desktop grade browsing.

In addition to announcing Flash Player for Android, Adobe announced the upcoming release of Flash Player 10 for Windows Mobile 7. You can already hear the iPhone users sighing.

Update June 22, 2009: Adobe has confirmed Flash Player 10 for Android is coming in October.

[via MobileCrunch]

TAGS Adobe Flash Windows Mobile

NEXT: Android SDK v0.9 released: new home screen, features added, features removed

Google posts Android timeline, 1.0 SDK still to come

T-Mobile to create app store for Android and other platforms

Home-grown G1 skin for the Android emulator

Microsoft to port Silverlight to Android?

http://androidauthority.com Nicholas Ahn
@gilbert: The Flash Player has NOT BEEN RELEASED yet. We will announce it when it comes.
delee
I love my g1. Can’t wait for flash… pls email me when it comes out. I’m not very technical but I’m slowly learning.. wuts up wit that 90% of everything n market cost now? Us people who r broke n bought the phone need love too…also…. when flash player comes we will be able to download torrents? And how much is this incredible flash player going to be? Somethings installed now cost..will I have to pay for them now? Just a few questions..I’m sure I will come up with more..and please understand my technology ignorence…I thank u…
MikRayAll
I would have thought this would have been easy, seeing as android was built on a linux Kernel. Linux has had flash for ages. Also I don’t think Adobe would charge. They have’t for any other system. It will be much appreciated sooner rather than later though. Come on adobe.
Troy
Errrrrrrrr you guy’s need to stop with the fake post I’m sick of that crap I wanna know if the danm flash player is coming out soon if not the phone that I love so much blows big wind…..!
http://none.com TOSAK
cmon guys be the g1 has been created and we as Android users need to be patient with it .. although some people have the Android over a year now and that might be frustating but still be patient im sure the Android will make us really thrilled that we bought it .. but i have a question of my own for people who knows this or uses it … Question ; Can i download and install a Navigation system on my Android. “If Yes” What Navigation software do u recommend ???
Naz
Keep me updated with the flash playerr if any answers rite me on frontaboynaz@gmail.com
Naz
found android7 flash player in market but is priced 3.99
Nathan
@Tosak
I would recommend Telenav navigation services. It isnt free but it is available on their site for an OTA download
@naz
That flash player 7 is horrible. no one even uses flash 7 anymore.
patrick
For sat nav I use andnav2 its free and uses google maps or any other ones of your choice works well with the g1 and it has voices turn by turn not as good as tomtom but brilliant for free
Blazinglite
Do not download flash 7. There is a company working with adobe to get the flash working with android. Flash 7 does not work for internet sites only flash items on sd card. Don’t waste your time or money. Wait for Adobe version.
g1hundred
In November they said flash was working on a g1 and said it would be coming soon to the public. It is mid way though April and we have nothing and they have quit talking. This is like telling your kids that they are getting a playstation 3 and then never giving it to them
george
Better hurry with the flash player!
David
I just have one question I know we are talking about the flash player but I’m kinda new to the hole g1 and you all might have gone over this already but I’m going to ask anyway. Is their anyway to make the blue tooth work I really don’t know how to get it going I turn it on and search for a device but it never connects to it and I mean another phone not a head set or anything else. Please if you can help me I would really love that thanks David.
whatdahek
when can we get the flash player for the g1 and how to install?????
Torrone C. Johnson
Okay I’ve had it with this G1 crap! T-Mobile jumped the gun with this product to keep use all from running to Verizon or AT&T. I am so sick a tired of the promises! I have recently been told that T-Mobile will be releasing the HTC Dream (G2) before the end of the year, also that G1 users are dead in the water, maybe an update. A T-Mobile rep told me (no joke) “its like buying a new car….next year there will be a new model! upgrade” Kiss My A S S !
THEfog
Bloody hell, this flash player better be something special with the amount of time its taking to produce it! I love my g1, its hardware is well ahead of its time and android is bloody awesome and dosn’t CRASH CONSTANTLY! ( yes I am looking at you iphone) but bloody hell flash player should have been out by now and the cupcake update as well is way overdue. Adobe need to give us proof that they are working on this and actually give a crap about us android users users.
Luke
Why do ppl who know the least talk the most? G1 is so far ahead of iphone and storm its
Unreal. I haven’t found anything u can’t do on g1 except watch flash stuff. Seriously if u want a laptop buy one. Ppl are so greedy and whiny, perhaps if ppl spent half the time changing the world for better we would be 100 years ahead of where we are. If u want flash player so much
Write ur own.. u can do that on linus try doin that on iphone or storm. G1 is designed not to crash and unlimited platform for future. When g2 comes out g1 won’t be left behind just updatedwhereas iphone upgrade make older ones worthless. Oh and I’m using me g1 on att network which is even more awesome..
jesse
Patrick, where did you get the andnav2 app?
http://myspace.com/luckybunnypaw lynn decent
huh? how come mine plays youtube vids? i gotta video myself watching you tube vids on my phone 2 prove it ;) later 2night i will ! xoxo
Max
They’ve been talking about this a long time. Either sh!t or get off the pot. BSquare is the company supposedly working on it and they have no news of updates on this on their site.
Cripes, this is turning out to be Google’s Chinese Democracy.
Alyx314
All we in the Android community as is confirmation that the project has not been dropped, and is still in development, (or a released final product, that would be better).
bojirman
I have just got the htc magic and I love it! But the only thing I can’t say to my mate about how much better this is than his iphone is that he can watch flash content! Please adobe hurry along with this issue.
King
YESS!!!! awesome!! all we G1 holders need after the flash player comes out is DivX Player which would be amazing!
http://thesteelo.com iKnewIt
I knew it. When ppl started converting all of their videos to flash because of their “small” size, that this was a bad idea.
Now you are all being held by your nuts for video, when a couple of years ago, there was no dominate video format.
Hey look! avi divx xvid etc…
We should go back to these formats so we don’t get held up with this type of bullshit.
on 3rd g1 still no flashplayer
waiting ,waiting waiting WTF Its about to be a year Like there just waiting for the g2 to drop, i hate you slow bastards
lucjan
Maybe it’s the bandwith thing – it’ll get choked if we all play flash movies all the time. So they’re purposely holding back?
nathan
I am the proud owner of a G1 id be a lot prouder if my bluetooth send nd retrive feature and if I knew when flash would be available to watch films etc
imiptat
You all know it isn’t going to release on the G1, they’ll just jerk us around untill the G2 comes out and foreget about developing anything for the G1.. I dropped a lot of money on this thing because it “had” promise.
mcfadyen
Well the cupcake update has at least arrived so we can at least film video (long wait for not much, on the surface anyway, and I’ve now got to reinstall some apps that previously worked fine but now crash… but it’s not like it takes days or anything!). But still no Flash… my mate’s just got a G2 and he doesn’t have Flash either…
I never bother with my installed YouTube app – I’m in the UK but eveything is geared to the US market and it’s so slow that it’s not worth the agonising wait for a video to load. And it crashes. A lot.
I love 95% of this phone – the remaining 5% causes me frustration and anger, mainly because I then have to try & deal with T-Mobile’s customer service, which doesn’t seem to know anything about its supposed ‘flagship’ product >:(
http://www.androidauthority.com James Tromans
I feel you, I really do. I have a friend who took her G1 over to Vodafone purely for the improved customer service she gets there, where she lives. They’re like, “we don’t support this phone, but we’ll see what we can do ;-)”. Another member of her family uses the T-Mobile contract on their older phone so it worked out quite nicely.
hermes
G1 is dead. Lets face it, they got us. the old bait and switch. with g2 in the near future we know our grim little fates are sealed. OBSOLETE. guess ill get a basic flip and be done with it. :(
Mike Weisman
There is not going to be a flash player for Android. The Android operating system is going to be abandoned, but they are keeping a lid on it. You have heard about other devices with Android? None of them are coming out with Android. It is because the OS is too underpowered and buggy for a commercial device. So enjoy your G!, because it is probably the first and only device we will ever see with Android.
Of course, the iPhone also lacks a Flash player… until today?
http://www.mobileburn.com/ Michael Oryl
Wow, Mike. It’s obvious you have all sorts of insider information. I guess we’ll all just pack it in and close shop.
Hex
You guys must not be very smart if you listen to the deepshits ssaying there will not be anymore android devices, htc hero has been leaked. We will continue to get updates, as the android platform is made to dso just that. The only way we will be forced to get a new phone is when we have reached the capasity of the hardware….. flash is coming soon and at least we don’t have to change phones in prder to get updates-iphone! There is anotherone coming out and we receive update ota, can the iphone do that? No

http://www.mobileburn.com/ Michael Oryl
Hex, perhaps you are the one with the IQ issue. That was called scarcasm… That guy Mike obviously doesn’t have a clue as to what he is talking about.

TMO emp
there are going to be more android phone i know of a couple coming out soon, so mike up there you keep thinking that and hold on to your sock cuz when the flash player comes out you will not be able to find a phone in the stores and runs android
Mike Lawrence
Hey guy, i recently purchased a G1 even with the G2 about. the G2 is a bucket, they have moved away from the full keyboard and gone with the touch screen. Personally i foudn this useless, touchscreen is akward to use, yes the g1 is bigger, but theres no way the developers are going to turn their back on the G1.
G1 = Excellent bit of kit, cant wait for send and recieve bluetooth ability and most importantly flash player.
http://dklafkladfadfafagahahfga StinoS(NL)
zomg gief that flash player plz i really am waiting for it. even tho i got the phone just a week it anoys me allready that i cant see flash movies. FIX IT!
tommy turbo
Justin like 2 say we’ve all been hung ut 2 dry over the flash player ,money grabbing twats got us all aga
Pingback: Adobe confirm Flash Player 10 coming to Android in October:
Natalie
Still no flash player for the G1? Ugh! This is such a good phone and I will hate to let it go. I have been waiting patiently for the flash player…… UPDATES PLEASE!
Xeris
Thinking about this whole flash player desire we all have for months now. Has me coming to this conclusion. They said flash 10 will be on android. Flash 9 is what’s current now. It would be smart for the new flash to be ready for this october. Pre holiday season. Couple of android phones to chose from. *our phones now play flash video, buy us for that uber cool holiday gift* Granted adobe has no particular intrest in android, but android and t-mobile have great intrest. So why wouldint they pay adobe to release it at the right time for t-mobile and the android phone family to see the max profits from it. I could be wrong, but I think it will be released this october. Followed by big time advertising from T-mobile for the g1 and g2 phones. Anyone else think this is what is going to happen?
Einherjrar
Having read the responses and completed several searches for additional information on this subject, it seems plain to me that there is no clear answer even now, months after the OP/announcement. Flash player 9 or higher is a must for android, but I have serious doubts that anyone making claims beyond the initial announcement have any real information beyond what we all have read.
I await a link(s) to more real info, and not just expression of doubt and/or prayer.
Hearsay be damned! Cite your source!
~ein
P.S. ~I use G1 android, I dun like the software keyboards.
Einherjrar
My bad, “…” posted a link that follows the rabbit to the hole.
Dunno how I missef the link.
GJ! October it is then
~ein
http://www.mobileburn.com/ Michael Oryl
How about this source? Read
Einherjrar
Those sources are fine for me.
Thx for the links michael.
~ein
Adam
what most of you lot seem to be missing here is the Android OS is seperate from the actual handsets. the G1, G2 and whatever comes out next are all running the EXACT same software, us users with the G1 will be using the same version of Android as those with a G2 and therefore we will all have flash when it comes out. the only thing that will be different is people with a G2 will have a slightly more powerful/faster handset but a shitty on-screen keyboard. G1 FTW!
http://www.mobileburn.com/ Michael Oryl
Actually, that’s not correct. The HTC Magic and G1 are mostly the same, it’s true, but your notion holds no water when devices like the HTC Hero are considered, let alone all of the other devices we’ll see from other manufacturers. In the same way that an HTC Windows Mobile phone looks different from a Samsung Windows Mobile phone, one Android phone can, and will, look different from the next. The OS is the base on which the rest is built upon, it is not 100% of the experience.
shawn groff
I was so elated when I bought g1 several months ago. Now I am bummed. Withing the first few minutes my heart was broke, all this money and the phone didn’t do nothing. My old phone with just text based internet was able to do more. So now I give android, g1, and tmobile to the end of October (remured release for flash); if by then they are still full of hot air then iphone here I come. At least they will fullfil their promises.
http://www.mayemug.com BadmanAmin
This is rubbish. No flash player yet for android yet?? I am fed up anyone wanna inherit my G1 dev-phone? I am tired of waiting for the flash player. Gonna get me an N96 or something.
shawn groff
Since yesterday I just got the htc wing and its freaking great. It plays flash and works really well. Let me guess only microsoft os can work like they are designed to. You open source fools need to learn to actually program products people can use or go back underground drinking ur energy drinks spanking ur selfs.

Flash Player on Android? Yes indeed.

by Nicholas Ahn on Nov 17, 2008 with 145 Comments">145

Android News

POPULAR POSTS

STAY CONNECTED

Android Authority

Back to Top

APPS

ROOTING

HOW TO