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Mobile Flash Finished
Adobe has announced that Flash 11.1 for Android and Blackberry is the end of the line.
The mobile version of the web’s most widely used plug-in will be the final mobile release for Flash, though Adobe plan to continue patching bugs and issuing security updates where needed. This doesn’t mark the end of Flash as a whole, though, as Adobe wants to foster a community of Flash-app developers coding apps to be run through the Adobe AIR system.
The move to bring mobile Flash to an end is almost certainly a result of the introduction of HTML 5 to mobile devices, which requires a lot less effort from developers to run on smartphones and tablet machines. Adobe can now focus on bringing some of its bold claims for Flash 11 to life, such as the promise of bringing ‘console quality’ graphics to web browsers, through the harnessing of a machine’s GPU.
HTML 5 has gained support, at least verbally, from many of the big names such as Apple, Mozilla and Opera, who plan to support the new standard fully in future iterations of their browsers.
(Source: El Reg)
Epicentre Says: “Flash for mobile would always have faced a huge struggle against the growing love for HTML 5, which has the big names behind it, backed up by a much more straightforward way of developing for it. It’s likely that Flash will be around for a few years to come, but its days could be numbered.”
