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Hello, I am currently designing a website with Flash and I am curious about its usability on mobile devices, especially mobile phones.

My second question is if I make an HTML website and it has a Flash video, can it be seen on mobile phones?

Thanks a lot!

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The short answer from the original thread reflected how things looked in 2011: device support varied by platform. , and pointed to that device fragmentation, but the bigger change since then is that Flash itself is no longer a viable delivery method for modern mobile (or desktop) sites.

Adobe officially ended Flash Player support and distribution at the end of 2020, and browsers removed plugin support, so building new UI or video around Flash is not recommended (Adobe Flash Player End of Life). For video and interactive content, migrate to HTML5/JS or use an emulator only as a short-term bridge.

Practical steps:

  • Convert Flash video to modern web formats (H.264 MP4 for broad mobile support, plus WebM for some browsers), and serve via the HTML5 <video> element. See the MDN reference for details on attributes and fallbacks (HTML5 video element on MDN). Example starter:
    <video controls width="640" poster="poster.jpg">
<source src="video.mp4" type="video/mp4">
<source src="video.webm" type="video/webm">
Your browser does not support HTML5 video.
</video>
  • For interactive SWFs, rebuild in HTML5/Canvas/SVG/JS (tools like Adobe Animate can export HTML5 Canvas), or reimplement with libraries such as CreateJS/GSAP. Adobe docs: .
  • If you must preserve legacy SWFs, consider the open-source emulator Ruffle for limited, short-term playback in browsers; it is not a full drop-in replacement for all AS3 content (Ruffle).

Testing and production tips: test on actual devices and emulators, provide responsive sizing and controls, add captions/poster images for accessibility, enable byte-range requests on the server for seeking, and consider HLS/DASH for adaptive streaming if you expect variable networks.

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Only mobile phones that have Flash Player 10.1 can view the video player. Those phones are the Android ones. No apple device would show that video player.

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1, only android,
2, no


edit:sorry griffin already answered

Edited by almostbob because: n/a
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Hi, today there are too many handsets in market which supports videos, i'm using Nokia 5230 it can play live youtube videos, live stream tv ( rtsp, etc ) in 3G environment. There are other handsets by Nokia as well as other providers available in market. So don't worry if, you are developing flash enabled website for mobile user version.

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