BBC iPlayer & Adobe Flash

[PT91]

@ bradwell77

I too have recently got a Scroll Essential tablet and followed your steps inorder to view BBC Iplayer but once I click on the video to watch it, using Skyfire, it states I need to download Adobe Flash Player....

I have the new Essential Tablet running Android 2.3.3.

Any advice?

[Mitre]

Hi PT91 and welcome to the loony bin
i have heard that bbc have blocked skyfire from using that tool for iplayer it should still work for other flash content
but dont despair i understand that flash is finished and everything is going over to HTML5 so then everything will work everywhere dont know when or indeed if this is definatley going to happen but lets hope so
sorry but as of now i think there is no flash support for iplayer on your device
you may try to google for "flash on arm11 devices"

[Astro]

Mitre is correct... Flash is indeed on it's way out, but not quite yet.

I believe that Android 4 / Ice Cream Sandwich (the latest version of Android) will be the last to support Flash.

From being the 'must have' technology of a few years ago, the death knell to was dealt to Flash by Apple's Steve Jobs' refusal to permit the support of it on the iPhone and iPad.

I believe that Adobe (the purveyors of Flash) will be ceasing development of Flash for mobile devices in the near / medium term, but the future of Flash on the desktop is less clear. However, I can't see many developers creating a website for Flash on the desktop and another for other devices

HTML5 (a standard rather than a technology in itself) is a far from complete and agreed; and may not be so for a while to come, but a lot of web developers are removing Flash from their websites in order to have a single solution that works across all current platforms... animated gifs anyone? Snippets of HTML5 compliant code will find their way into websites over time, but not all browsers are compliant with even the draft standard yet.

Keep faith with the Essential PT91, it will come into its own in the future.

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