Adobe pulls Flash Player support in Android 4.1 Jelly Bean - The Inquirer
In a post on its blog, the software developer said it "has not continued developing and testing Flash Player for this new version of Android" and will pull Flash Player from the Google Play store in mid-August.
"Beginning August 15th we will 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," Adobe said in the post.
The move follows Adobe's decision last November to adopt HTML5 for mobile operating systems instead of Flash.
Adobe also warned that smartphones running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, which presently support Flash but are expected to receive an Android 4.1 Jelly Bean upgrade in July - such as the Samsung Galaxy S3 - are likely to run into problems.
"If a device is upgraded from Android 4.0 to Android 4.1, the current version of Flash Player may exhibit unpredictable behavior, as it is not certified for use with Android 4.1," Adobe said.
"Future updates to Flash Player will not work. We recommend uninstalling Flash Player on devices which have been upgraded to Android 4.1."