Android 2.2 to include full support for Adobe Flash

By on Apr 27, 2010 at 6:30 PM
General April 27, 2010

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In an interview with the New York Times, Andy Rubin, VP of Engineering at Google, put to rest all the rumors and confirmed that the upcoming Android 2.2 release known as “Froyo” will include support for Adobe Flash. Flash for Android was first demonstrated on the T-Mobile G1 back in November 2008 and the Android community has been waiting with growing impatience for this feature to launch on their open source mobile platform. Though Rubin was generous in sharing the Adobe Flash information, he failed to disclose even a tentative launch date for Android 2.2. Android fans are now left in the unenviable position of knowing that Flash support is coming in the next release but still relying on the rumor mill to predict when the release might rollout. For those who are keeping track, the latest guesstimate points to a May unveiling.

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  • Unimaginative

    Remember that not all Android users have the same wait ahead of them; those without Google-Experience devices are essentially up the creek.

  • Dad

    This will further push Android as the mainstream smartphone OS with iPhone as a specialty, similar to Macintosh VS PC (PC being mainstream and MAC being specialty)

    • Geronimo

      Apple’s is already the “mainstream smartphone OS” with 75 million iPhones sold. Android will have to catch up. Can it? Apple can still blow it (and it seems like they’re trying to). Think back about how IBM owned the PC market back in the early 1980′s. When they tried to force new proprietary systems onto the market, consumers rejected them… leading to a long slow slide into the enterprise-only oblivion that IBM occupies today. Same could happen to Apple if they’re not careful. Bigger leads have been blown before.

  • Michelle

    i dont know if anyone has mentioned this or not, cause im not gonna read through 100+ posts, but didnt this same site say that the head adobe guy said we wouldnt be getting flash until the end of 2010? so wouldnt that be the logical time frame for this release?

  • Cadillac Jones

    As an iPhone user, this stings a lil bit.

  • Seth

    I must seriously be the ONLY Android user who does NOT want the Flash bloat anywhere NEAR my kernel. Period. As long as it is an optional component where I don’t *have* to install it, I will be fine with that. If Froyo forces it, I’ll be eating my Eclair for a very long time. Period.

    • Will

      It was an optional selection on Hero Sense ROM’s, and could be turned off within the browser settings.

  • Jake

    This is fantastic news! Regrettably up in Canada Rogers has marooned us with v1.5 (urgh) and I doubt we will be seeing this anytime soon as we are still up there waiting for 2.1 to drop. This waiting game as well as having a perfected SPL and as a result no root makes me want to pull my hair out.

    Just my two cents

  • James

    I hope you can turn it off easy. Coming from a development side I would love Flash to go away. Flash was designed for PC’s and has terrible security. Most of the PC’s that get malware or other spyware are infected thru Flash ad’s and movies. I do not want that on my phone/tablet/TV etc…

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