Necrologist: Flash Player for Android remains to live one day

August 15 is the last day when the owners of Android devices can download Flash Player from the Google Play online store, since at midnight (on the time of the Pacific coast of the United States) Adobe will irrevocably delete Flash Player from the catalog, reports cnaws.ru .

After August 16, it will only be possible to update the player for those who have already been installed, and then Google and Adobe are recommended after updating devices with installed Flash Player to Android Jelly Bean to remove the application to avoid failures in the work.

In fact, what is happening means the sunset of technology, which Adobe has recently considered an integral part of the global network, without which users cannot get full experience when working with the Internet.

Flash technology got Adobe along with the acquisition of Macromedia in 2005. It is used to transmit streaming videos and create animated websites. The technology has never been supported in Apple's mobile products on the iOS platform.

In 2009, Steve Jobs explained that it is quite possible to do without Flash: he will be outdated and soon other standards will be replaced. In those days, Apple was repeatedly criticized that when writing the iPhone applications, the developers had to use only “native” Apple applications, avoiding third -party environments - it was a clear hint of Flash. Jobs had to explain why his company does not allow and would not allow the use of this technology on its mobile devices. As the head of Apple wrote then, his experts for several years asked Adobe to show a well -working Flash technology on any mobile device. However, this never happened.

Adobe announced the upcoming refusal to support Flash Player in June 2012, in fact, recognizing the case of the late Jobs. Earlier, in November last year, it became known about Adobe's intention to stop further development of the mobile version of Flash technologies for mobile devices and for consumer devices like TVs.

In recent years, many websites, for example, YouTube by Google, have been transferred from Flash to the modern HTML5 standard.