In a further shift away from Flash to HTML5 as the key platform for web media, the Adobe system is no longer supported on Android.
Adobe announced in late 2011 that it would abandon its mobile efforts for its rich media player and concentrate on HTML5. Official development of the Android technology has now stopped though existing plug-ins should still work and will receive security updates. The latest version of the Google OS, Jelly Bean, did not feature Flash support.
The rise of cross-platform web standards like HTML5 and CSS made the eventual death of mobile Flash inevitable, but there are still functions which those immature offerings do not support as well as old-style plug-ins. What hastened the end of Flash on smartphones was the implacable opposition of Apple, which refused to support the technology, claiming performance and security weaknesses.
RIM has said it will continue to support Flash as well as HTML5 in future versions of BlackBerry OS, but Windows Phone will offer only limited support.