no flashplayer on android smartphones??

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Beryllium Knight

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I have visited many web sites i.e. ally.com and gamesradar.com and they both say please install the latest flash player to view this page?! I have an htc magic and my gf has an lg eve I knowthey aresupposed to come out with flash 10 in oct. 2010 but why would they make such great phones for surfing the web etc. And leave out flash player?!
 
This isn't really anything to do with the handset, the manufacturer, Google, or Android.

The correct question is:

Why have Adobe taken so long to make a Flash player for Android.

Well, they announced very early in the life of Android that they would create a version of Flash for late 2009 or early 2010. It takes time to develop software.

Bear in mind that it'll be free. Compare the number of PCs/Macs in the world to the number of Android handsets - I'd imagine Android phones won't even make up 0.0001% of Adobe's target audience. Development of such apps for a phone is much more difficult than for a much more powerful PC/Mac - you have to discover a lot of tricks to make it work well on the slower hardware.

I don't blame Adobe for taking their time making difficult software, for free, for such a relatively small group of people.

Maybe they just want to get it right?

It's only been in development a year...
 
Because Adobe has yet to release a full version of Flash for Android. The Hero has a lite version of Flash, but a lot of stuff will still not load.

The main problem, as I understand it, is that Flash is very CPU intensive and mobile phones can't play Flash with the same ease that desktop CPUs can, so they have to retweak it so it will work more efficiently.

For the most part, Symbian and the BlackBerry OSs are the only mobile phones that can play flash. The iPhone doesn't even have it and probably never will.
 
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