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Old 04-01-2014, 11:00
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I want a new phone that will be able to play videos that need flash player, will the nexus 5 be able to play them? Which phpnes can play flash videos?

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Old 04-01-2014, 11:11
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Not natively. There are some hacked Flash players floating around, but if they work reliably or are safe it's hard to say.

No new Android handset will support Flash natively as Adobe no longer make a Flash plugin for Android, and Android 4.4 removed some functionality and APIs that the last version available version required.
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Old 04-01-2014, 11:53
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If you used something like Dolphin Web browser then it supports Flash.
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Old 04-01-2014, 12:09
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If you used something like Dolphin Web browser then it supports Flash.
no it doesn't.

there is a hack that sort of does. but the poster above you was correct.

you are probably confusing the situation with jelly bean where whilst it wasn't officially supported it was trivial to sideload it and then use it in some third party browsers. that is no longer the case.
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Old 04-01-2014, 12:11
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I want a new phone that will be able to play videos that need flash player, will the nexus 5 be able to play them? Which phpnes can play flash videos?

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what do you have in mind.

most sites these days work perfectly well without flash.
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Old 04-01-2014, 12:18
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what do you have in mind.

most sites these days work perfectly well without flash.
I'm on about videos though.
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Old 04-01-2014, 12:21
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I'm on about videos though.
yes most video sites work perfectly well without flash.

which ones specifically do you have in mind?
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Old 04-01-2014, 13:04
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Not natively. There are some hacked Flash players floating around, but if they work reliably or are safe it's hard to say.

No new Android handset will support Flash natively as Adobe no longer make a Flash plugin for Android, and Android 4.4 removed some functionality and APIs that the last version available version required.
That's not entirely true, the HTC One, supports Flash. In fact it is already built in, and plays all flash content perfectly with the stock browser. Always had a problem when sideloading flash on a nexus device, specially when trying to watch the videos in full screen. Very unreliable. But with my current phone and I imagine the follow up will do the same.

Found it silly that flash was officially dropped. I still come across a fair bit of flash content.
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Old 04-01-2014, 13:09
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Even a sites that still work with flash, will probably have a free app which enables you to view the videos.
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Old 04-01-2014, 13:23
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That's not entirely true, the HTC One, supports Flash. In fact it is already built in, and plays all flash content perfectly with the stock browser. Always had a problem when sideloading flash on a nexus device, specially when trying to watch the videos in full screen. Very unreliable. But with my current phone and I imagine the follow up will do the same.

Found it silly that flash was officially dropped. I still come across a fair bit of flash content.
It was always going to be dropped, even adobe have dropped support. The issues with security and cpu/memory and battery drain just never made it a good technology for mobile devices.

With the rise of the tablet and mobile internet any content provider would be nuts to not have an alternative to flash to view their videos.
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Old 04-01-2014, 15:05
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There are a few browsers that have flash support, Puffin browser for one.

There is also Flashfox which works with 4.4

No idea how good they are though
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Old 04-01-2014, 16:26
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Still find Flash very useful. It's a good way of watching certain catchup channels who's use has officially been banned using 3G/4G.
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Old 04-01-2014, 16:26
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no it doesn't.

there is a hack that sort of does. but the poster Above. you was correct.

you are probably confusing the situation with jelly bean where whilst it wasn't officially supported it was trivial to sideload it and then use it in some third party browsers. that is no longer the case.
It works with Flash ok for me on my S3.

Also it states that it works on the Play store and also people's feedback says it also supports Flash.
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Old 04-01-2014, 16:36
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It works with Flash ok for me on my S3.

Also it states that it works on the Play store and also people's feedback says it also supports Flash.
As per the earlier post from The Phazer, on Android 4.4 it requires a hacked version of Flash Player to work.

All official builds of Flash Player do not work on Android 4.4
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Old 04-01-2014, 19:21
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Deleted (me not reading properly it was 4.4).
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Old 04-01-2014, 19:22
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Sorry just realising is 4.4 you are talking about and not 4.3 or 4.1
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Old 04-01-2014, 19:24
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edit: Just seen your edit above.
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Old 05-01-2014, 11:57
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so if I go to a website that has a video on it will it say you need to download flash player to watch it?
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Old 05-01-2014, 12:04
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No...

Many, including all designed for mobiles, will play just fine without Flash player.
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Old 05-01-2014, 12:21
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Many, including all designed for mobiles, will play just fine without Flash player.
yes but on the mobile I have at the moment which does not have flash player (I want a phone with flash) when I go to a website it says install flash. A lot of the websites don't have mobile version. I want to be able to play all videos from the interent on my phone.
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Old 05-01-2014, 13:12
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yes but on the mobile I have at the moment which does not have flash player (I want a phone with flash) when I go to a website it says install flash. A lot of the websites don't have mobile version. I want to be able to play all videos from the interent on my phone.
give us an example site.

what people are saying to you is it is incredibly rare for that to happen. hardly any content providers require flash. it's now trivial to embed videos without flash.


and if you must you can use flashfox. but you wont.
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Old 05-01-2014, 16:47
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give us an example site.

what people Arisaig saying to you is it is incredibly rare for that to happen. hardly any content providers require flash. it's now trivial to embed videos without flash.


and if you must you can use flashfox. but you wont.
I use to get it before I had Dolphin on the BBC site all the time saying I did not have Flash installed and could not find an easy way round it.

Not sure about the mobile version of the BBC sites (if they can play videos embedded in the site), but I hate using the mobile versions of sites (might be different if I had a small screen of 4" or something like that but mobile versions of sites are crap).
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Old 05-01-2014, 19:00
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I use to get it before I had Dolphin on the BBC site all the time saying I did not have Flash installed and could not find an easy way round it.

Not sure about the mobile version of the BBC sites (if they can play videos embedded in the site), but I hate using the mobile versions of sites (might be different if I had a small screen of 4" or something like that but mobile versions of sites are crap).
BBC site is, in the most part, absolutely fine.
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Old 05-01-2014, 19:25
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I can give you a example of where Flash still works.
I know that there is TV Catchup app but if you want to watch ITV Channel 4 ect you are not able to watch over a cellular connection. However if you have Flash player installed and go to m.tvcatchup. com. You can watch these channels fine over 3/4G. It just plays though your media player. So in this case Flash is still very useful.
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Old 05-01-2014, 19:36
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I can give you a example of where Flash still works.
I know that there is TV Catchup app but if you want to watch ITV Channel 4 ect you are not able to watch over a cellular connection. However if you have Flash player installed and go to m.tvcatchup. com. You can watch these channels fine over 3/4G. It just plays though your media player. So in this case Flash is still very useful.
OK m.tvcatchup.com works fine on my Nexus 5. Click on a channel and it asks you what 'player' you want to use. select the stock video player and away you go
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