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Guidelines on Installing Flash Player for Android on Jelly Bean Devices

August 23, 2024 Tech Tips
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Jelly Bean devices such as Galaxy S3/4, Sony Xperia SP, HTC One, Sony Xperia Z, and Nexus 4 are enjoying a hot market in the recent years. Some users even rely on those Jelly Bean mobile phones or tablets as the main entertainment tool. But the bad news coming from Adobe frustrated many users soon afterwards. The news said that there would be no support for Flash in Android Jelly Bean, because the new streaming technology HTML5 doesn’t need Flash player to play videos, as Adobe claimed. Well, it may be far-fetched to say so since HTML5 is not matured enough to be used by all websites. The fact is that some websites are still using Flash instead of HTML5. Therefore, it is a tricky problem for the users who want to access contents on these websites.

As a matter of fact, we can get around the issue by installing Flash player for Android devices manually. Listed in the below is the full-fledged process for your easy reference.

Step 1. Download the Adobe Flash Player Supporting Browser.

Of all popular browsers, Mozilla Firefox and Dolphin Browser are the most stable ones capable of supporting Flash Player. Personally, I would recommend using the latter since it has got many important features. Notes: In order to install the external app smoothly, you can go to Dolphin Browser Settings and then click the Unknown sources to enable the installation.

Step 2. Download Adobe Flash Play 11.1APK

Now that you have downloaded the proper Flash Player supporting Browser, it is time to download the Adobe Flash Play 11.1 apk file which is not available on Google Play Store. You can download the APK on the XDA developers website. Notes: There is potential risk to your devices or personal information when installing the APK file. Please prepare yourself well for any consequences that may caused by the installation.

Step 3. Copy APK File to SD Card

After downloading the .apk file of Flash Player for Android, you need to copy it to your Android devices’ SD card.

Step 4. Install APK on Android Device

Open your device and create a new file manager. The, browse to the location where you save the APK file, select it and install it.

Step 5.Enable Flash Player on Browser.

The last thing you should do is to enable flash player on the browser you chose. You can click the browser’s setting to look for the option that activates Flash Player on your Jelly Bean device.

OK, everything has been done. Adobe Flash player for Android is now running on your Jelly Bean device. You can hang on any websites freely including the Flash-based ones. Last but not least, if you have got some Flash SWF video files on your computer and would like to play SWF on Samsung Galaxy S or other Jelly Bean devices, you need to break the format limitation by the third-party SWF Video Converter.

Facebook acquiring for the Mobile Technologies

August 15, 2024 Tech News
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Facebook is well-known to thousands of millions of people all over the world. As a popular free social networking website, users are allowed to create profiles, upload photos, various videos, so that they can keep in good touch with friends, family and colleagues. So far, it is globally available in 37 different languages.

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But Facebook is never satisfied with what it has achieved. Over a billion registered users across the world are using Facebook every month; still, Facebook is always adhering to its mission of looking for the workable ways to help connect the rest of the world. On August 12, 2013, Facebook announced that it has agreed to acquire the Mobile Technologies and purchased a speech recognition and machine translation start-up—precisely the Pittsburgh-based developer behind the app Jibbigo, aiming at connecting its users across the language barriers. According to an insider who said that the translation tool was able to translate Facebook’s News Feed posts as well as offer voice search in multiple languages. As we know that, Jibbigo was launched in 2009 as the world’s first speech-to-speech translator. It can be run on a mobile phone, on the internet or even off-line. Users are allowed to key in the text or make the voice recording in one of the 25 languages; afterwards, Jibbigo will translate the data file immediately on screen or read aloud to the users. Currently, Jibbigo is available on both the iOS and Android operating systems. It is said that Facebook would continue to offer support to this app, while on the other hand, some members of Mobile Technologies team will be shifted to Facebook in the near future.

“I’m excited to announce that we’ve agreed to acquire Mobile Technologies, a company with an amazing team that’s behind some of the world’s leading speech recognition and machine translation technology.”, Facebook’s Tom Stocky said. As far as we are concerned, voice technology is becoming more and more important; many people prefer to use it to navigate their mobile phones. It is considered as a revolutionary technology, helping us to evolve the current products to catch up with the evolution. As one of the member of Jibbigo team said, “Facebook, with its mission to make the world more open and connected, provides the perfect platform to apply our technology at a truly global scale.”

As the old saying goes, “People fear what they don’t understand.” Facebook will probably go a lot further and do big things, turning science fiction into a reality with the support of Mobile Technologies.