Adobe Flash Player Have Been Dropped Out Of Google Play Store

Adobe Flash Player was moved from Google Play Store from August 15, 2012. If you have already installed the Adobe Flash Player app on your android device, you will be able to use and see it on the store, but no new updates will be provided.

• Last November, Adobe announced that it is going to stop developing the mobile version of the Flash Player for Android, but the app will continue to be provided through the Android Market.

"Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. We will no longer adapt Flash Player for mobile devices to new browser, OS version or device configurations. Some of our source code licensees may opt to continue working on and releasing their own implementations. We will continue to support the current Android and PlayBook configurations with critical bug fixes and security updates."


• A couple of months ago, Adobe said that it will be removed from the stroe on August 15.
• On August 15, 2012, Adobe Flash Player was not able to be found in Android Market no longer.

There are reasons which make Adobe do these step by step.

• Apple decided to forgo having the ability to play various types of multimedia and interactive content on their device when the first iPhone was launched. Instead, their devices owned stability, better user experience and battery life. And the most important is that didn't stop people from buying the phone.
• iPhone grew more and more popular and Apple released another device which also does't have the support of Flash - iPad. And this went on to become a hit, again. iPad is still hot nowadays.
• Leaving the world's most popular platform, Adobe had no choice but to turn to Android. At first, Flash supporting became one selling point of those Android devices.
• But actually, very few Android devices were capable of running Flash properly. Most content on the web is not optimized for a touchscreen at all and that causes a poor user experience.
• Eventually, Adobe chose to turn to HTML5 instead of developing Flash Player for Android. At the same time, Google chose not to include support for Flash Player at all in their Chrome for Android.

That's all reasons and steps in the whole thing. And now, as android users, we can't download Adobe Flash Player for ever. But to play local flash videos, some of these swf players for android can help you.