As Mark said, unless you have a Hero, which has flash built it, this will not work.
On Dec 28, 1:38 pm, chris harper <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you Mark for the clarification it is greatly appreciated. > With so many different sources on the internet it is somewhat difficult to > know what is actually available and what isn't. > > One more question if you happen to know this. All I am simply trying to do > is create a WebView (using android.webkit.Webview) and view a .swf file with > it. > > According to this article it is had been done and is > possible:http://www.flashmobileblog.com/2009/08/12/flash-development-with-andr... > > But again like I stated before, after downloading the latest source code, > building it, flashing it to my development phone and flash still not working > I am having my doubts (and greatly wondering how this guy said it is > working). > > Do you know if this is even somewhat possible (maybe a FlashLite plugin I am > missing or something?). > > Or am just out of luck on this one. > > Thank you > -Chris > > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]>wrote: > > > chris harper wrote: > > > I kept reading about how one of the biggest news about eclair coming > > > out in 2010 is that support for Flash 10 (or ANY Flash for that > > > matter) will be built into it. > > > 1. Eclair came out in 2009. > > > 2. AFAIK, nowhere credible was it written that Eclair would have support > > for Flash 10 built into it. > > > > This does not appear to be the case for the fact that I download all > > > the latest source code for Eclair, built and installed Eclair onto my > > > development phone over the Christmas break and to my surprise/ > > > disappointment there is absolutely no support for Flash when I try to > > > view with the browser. I tried plugin's and searching for missing .apk > > > installs for Flash but I found nothing. > > > Flash is not open source. > > > Right now, the most that can reasonably be expected is for Flash to be > > available from Adobe for Android OEMs to license and put on their > > devices. HTC has already done this with the Hero, albeit for more of a > > Flash Lite profile than a full Flash 10 implementation. This is not > > significantly different than codecs for non-open-source media file > > formats (e.g., WMA, WMV) being available for OEMs to license from > > PacketVideo. > > > -- > > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > >http://commonsware.com|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > > Android Consulting/App Development:http://commonsware.com/consulting > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
