In November last year, Adobe announced that it does not intend to issue new versions of the Flash player for mobile devices – including running the Google Android OS. Exceptions are an issue of correcting errors and flying possible security holes.
Adobe officially has confirmed that there will be no certified implementations of Flash Player for Android 4.1 (“Jelly Bean”) as it has ceased development of the Flash Player on Google’s platform entirely. In a blog posting, Adobe said that only devices that it has certified are supported and these are typically devices that came with Flash Player installed; uncertified devices have, however, been able to download the player from the Google Play store and “in most cases it worked”. With the release of Android 4.1 though, there will be no certified devices.
The company also plans to use the Google Play Store to limit access to Flash Player. Beginning August 15 th they would use the configuration settings in the Google Play Store to limit continued access to Flash Player updates to only those devices that have Flash Player already installed. Devices that do not have Flash Player already installed are increasingly likely to be incompatible with Flash Player and will no longer be able to install it from the Google Play Store after August 15 th. It also warns users who upgrade from Android 4.0 to 4.1 that any installed version of Flash “may exhibit unpredictable behaviour” and it should be uninstalled before the upgrade.
Does this action will accelerate the implementation of HTML5, which is one of the promoters is already Google as well as Apple.