For several years I have tried dozens of Android browsers to try and find one which would allow me to use a Flash based application on a Website that I use at work on Windows without success until I recently tried the Photon Flash Browser.
Apparently the Photon browser uses a server for communicating with Websites rather than using a built-in Flash Player which is why it provides Flash Player performance similar to Windows.
Photon does not have all of the features found on some browsers such as Dolphin so I just use it when I need Windows Flash performance on my Nexus 10 and Nexus 4.
It is not free and cost about £7/year, but for me that is a small price to pay for the convenience of being able to do my work on Android when I'm at home or travelling.
The Photon Browser is fast and stable when using Flash unlike the Puffin browser which is also has a server based Flash player but it cannot cope with my work application.
It does disconnect you from Flash if you are inactive for about 10-minutes to keep the cost down, but that is not a deal-breaker for me for my use.
So I recommend it to anyone who is having difficulty with Flash on Android to give it a try.
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I noticed no matter where I'm at my Hero does not seem to push out enough of a signal for me to view flash on my G-Tab when I have it tethered to my phone, I'm guessing that the viewing of web based flash media is bandwidth dependant .
Other individuals with different phones have no problems & since I'm not up to getting a new phone at this moment some Google searching lead me to Cloud based web browsers which seem to circumvent this issue. However I could find no such cloud browser for android. The thing is though is the JooJoo tab from my understanding uses a browser based Linux operating system, web browser included. So my question is does anyone know of a cloud based browser that I could use on my G-Tab? I want to see if this can fix my problem.
Skyfire?
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It works for Iphone / Ipad. They claim an android version will available soon. Until then is there a work around for accessing the video feeds on BTN2GO.com
try using dolphin browser then go to setting and choose desktop/not android as the client thing (forgot what it is called)
I tried Dolphin & Dolphin Mini which has an iphone & ipad user agent.
No Luck
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lcs_71 said:
I tried Dolphin & Dolphin Mini which has an iphone & ipad user agent.
No Luck
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You need to use Desktop user agent as was suggested. Using iphone/ipad will still just get you the mobile site (iphone/ipad has an btn2go app, and one is being worked on for android). Since android does flash, you should be able to stream it once you get btn2go.com to think you're on a 'desktop' computer.
Went to view some stats and add points to my "nation" for Medal of Honor Warfighter using my Dolphin browser. The page would not display properly, and I noticed a warning about Adobe Flash not installed or disabled? I had Flash set to always on, but now it showed on demand. Went to change it, and a pop-up warning appeared stating that Adobe has discontinued Flash support for Android! And sure enough, it is no longer in the Google Play Store anymore. WTH???!!!
Is this yet another bit of sabotage from Apple to cripple it hottest competition? Because just about every website uses Flash for something, and this would cripple web browsing on ALL Android based devices. And thus effect a lot of us Android users!
yah, they stopped it ...
This is old news. Adobe discontinued flash for Android since JellyBean and have taken it off the Play Store. ICS is the last supported version. This is due to the fact that Flash is a resource heavy technology that is soon becoming outdated and HTML5 is being adopted more and more everyday. I use the YouTube HTML5 player myself and have been doing so since a few months. I hardly ever find a need for Flash, especially on a mobile device. Of course, people's requirement vary, but like the YouTube HTML5 player, websites are moving towards that everyday. HTML5 is the future, and everyone including Adobe knows it. So I don't think they would spend money and resources developing a technology that will soon be obsolete anyway.
You can still install the Flash Player apk from Adobe's website on both ICS and JellyBean and use it on your device. They haven't removed every trace of it, they've just put it in their legacy section and aren't going to update it anymore.
Guide to install Flash Player manually (use the last ICS version for JB) - http://forums.adobe.com/message/4675670
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I am rather confused here. I have an Android TV computer (Neo X5) and a Samsung Note N7000. The Neo runs 4.2.2 and the Note 4.1.2 both are rooted (not that I think this matters here).
I am having difficulties streaming video from web sites in some cases. Sometimes the video begins to play and then locks up or just spins doing nothing forever. In other cases, I am told by the browser that the plugin is not supported. Worse still, this varies not only by browser but by device (some browsers work on one device while they fail on other devices - using the exact same web page for the video source).
I have installed Dolphin, Chrome, Opera, and Firefox. I have Flash 11.x installed. It seems like all of the sources are sending Flash. At least when I load the same pages into FF on my Windows XP computer the player is clearly Flash (I can right click on the player and see the Flash version).
I am testing using the following:
video.pbs.org
startrek.com/video
billmoyers.com/video
Can anyone explain this odd behavior? I am in the USA so location shouldn't be an issue. Right now I have all the browsers installed and get by using the ones that work for each site. But this seems crazy to me.
Thanks.
Perhaps a step in answering my own question:
Well, I found this list of browsers on Android supporting Flash <http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2234684> which is informative. Then I did some noodling around looking at the page source for each of the video sources I am trying to run (PBS, StarTrek, Bill Moyers). Of these, only StarTrek is clearly trying to run the Flash player. PBS seems to be using something called JWPlayer <http://www.jwplayer.com/>. And Bill Moyers seems to be using something called PowerPress Player <http://create.blubrry.com/resources/powerpress/using-powerpress/>. It seems as if these last 2 may be downloadable plugins that are not Flash after all (which is strange because when I run the same videos successfully in FF on Windows all are clearly using the Flash Player). So maybe I am finding that these last two items are simply not compatible with the various browsers.
What I still am finding hard to understand is why my results vary by device. But it may be Android version differences of some sort instead of something different in the device itself. I also suppose that the version of the browser apps may vary by device and/or Android version and maybe as such the pages delivered to the browser based upon user-agent, etc may be different and this could explain why things differ.
The main idea going for Remix OS as an alternative OS to windows is expecting some similar usage, one such expectation is Flash support. We all know Chrome does not support - I heard of Puffin browser for this task and widely being talked around in various blogs.
When I open Puffin browser - I only see the 'connecting' for a few minutes before it lets me type in the address bar, however after the connecting process - it crashes giving the usual options to 'reporting to the app developer'. Just wanted a confirmation from others to make sure the problem is only with me and my hardware.
Did anyone try on other supported devices or mini PCs like MXpro and Tronsmart or other supported laptops etc.,
Secondly, all these browsers Puffin browser, dolphin browser or Firefox struggled to load pages? When I tried to load my daughter's school website that has a lot of flash based content (McGraw Hill) - it never loaded any of these pages. Also when I opened a book (which is flash based) on chrome I can't see any of of the controls to flip through the book but at least I know flash is not supported by chrome.