Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Adobe decided to no longer develop Flash on smartphone

So far we only know Adobe develops computer software applications. but such presumption may change because in fact Adobe also began to plunge in other fields, cellular phones.

Flash development for mobile devices discontinued by Adobe, but not for Flash to PC. Adobe will continue the development of Flash for the PC, that the future is expected to present the content with high quality or high definition (HD) for desktop or laptop computer users.

Adobe has not revealed what the underlying decision. Adobe definitely no longer works Flash on smartphone.


In his blog, Mike Chambers, product manager for Adobe Flash platform revealed that actually they (Adobe) want to keep on developing Flash but it faces the large fragmentation of the mobile phone market and the fact that one of the leading mobile platform (Apple IOS) will reject the Flash Player on their browser.

All the vendors finally changed to support HTML5 instead of Flash in fact at this time. Those causes in Flash for use in mobile devices has dropped dramatically.

Flash is widely applied for smartphone based on Google Android. However, all devices manufactured ​​by Apple, iPhone to iPad, does not equip Flash and HTML 5's preferred.

His recognition indirectly accused to Apple as a "prime suspect" stop developing Flash on mobile devices.



When announcing the termination on mobile Flash development, Adobe also announced that in future they will focus on HTML5. In addition, Adobe will build the ecosystem for the development of Adobe AIR-based applications natively on all platforms.