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Iris Browser

Hi guys,
Have you tried the new Iris Browser?
I downloaded the new 1.1.2 version last night and must say I am very impressed.
This it very fast and even plays youtube thought youtube seemed a bit slow...
It is free and has decent features too.
It is my first choice for now!

i am browsing using X1 with iris browser, this browser is damn fast..very impressed, faster than Opera

Invisible Sense said:
Hi guys,
Have you tried the new Iris Browser?
I downloaded the new 1.1.2 version last night and must say I am very impressed.
This it very fast and even plays youtube thought youtube seemed a bit slow...
It is free and has decent features too.
It is my first choice for now!
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Already posted: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=484879

i dont think it works with youtube
i get the message javascript might be disabled...
its very fast indeed ... too bad it lacks some basic features like copy - paste or zooming in different levels (only 50% 100% and 200%)
it looks really promising

informatico said:
i dont think it works with youtube
i get the message javascript might be disabled...
its very fast indeed ... too bad it lacks some basic features like copy - paste or zooming in different levels (only 50% 100% and 200%)
it looks really promising
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Do you have flashlite 3.1 installed? youtube worked on mine although it was a bit slow.
I do agree that it does lack some basic features.
I'm sure future releases will address some of these issues.

new version 1.1.3 out. anyone knows how to disable animations?

Skyfire Android beta now in marketplace

Works pretty good on Desire

and somehow they decided to only make it available to the country with access to paid apps. long live market enabled
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Got it... will use it as my default for a while, see how it works out.

Does it do multitouch??

anyone care to post the apk? can't get it from the market....unfortunately i stay in australia where i have no chance to get alot of good apps...

Took it straight off, poor design and looks cheap...

lol....but it looks good on the video demo...just wanna try out playing flash on it.

it's clunky but...
villiankknd said:
lol....but it looks good on the video demo...just wanna try out playing flash on it.
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...video playback is great. UI's a bit iffy, and the zoom (it does support multitouch) is in steps, but the killer feature is the video playback. Just tried some online content and it looked excellent - worth keeping just for that I think as an alternate browser.

yup, thats my point actually lol, just for the sake of the video playback...
someone please get me the apk =D

it's on the market now

ya i know its on the market if you read my previous post....
anyways i found where to download it =)
http://get.skyfire.com/dl_android.php
and if anyone wants a link to a great site with alot of movies and tv series then pm me =)
i just watched grey's anatomy on it, and tried to watch alien, =D works wonders all on my amazing HTC Desire wooohoo

I couldn't get nothing to play lol
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skyfire 2 is brilliants. It is still beta so no true serverside flash rendering yet, but it works just like the default browser with multitouch and with compression tehnology. Loving it.

I tried this app for ages yesterday but could only get one site to actually play any flash videos which is kind of the point. The site was redtube purely for research purposes of course
Sites that wouldn't play include:
itv player
demand five
megavideo
quicksilverscreen
empflix
vho
Can someone post some good video sites that do work? This app has a lot of potential but at the moment it's not living up to it. It is in beta though and I hope it will improve over time.
It is a pretty good browser though with multi-touch. Another nice feature is one button "connect as" - you can choose Desktop, iphone or Android which can load a mobile version of a site (or not)

purely a personal feeling, but I think the stock browser is way better, for what matters miles ahead of every other phone I've tried.
still, a lot of options is always an excellent thing...
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yes the stock is way better, just that it cant play flash video like skyfire period..
i tested megavideo, it works 1 out of 10times.....dont know why.......
there are other websites that are working and i watch a full movie of alien on it streaming on a website...=)

I might have been lucky, flash worked 9 out of ten times on stock browser for me. good to know I can rely on skyfire when problems happen however.
my 'mistrust' for skyfire comes from trying to use the last version on WinMo and finding it really slow compared to old versions. sort of different on modern devices...
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pd555 said:
I tried this app for ages yesterday but could only get one site to actually play any flash videos which is kind of the point. The site was redtube purely for research purposes of course
Sites that wouldn't play include:
itv player
demand five
megavideo
quicksilverscreen
empflix
vho
Can someone post some good video sites that do work? This app has a lot of potential but at the moment it's not living up to it. It is in beta though and I hope it will improve over time.
It is a pretty good browser though with multi-touch. Another nice feature is one button "connect as" - you can choose Desktop, iphone or Android which can load a mobile version of a site (or not)
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Me too even the BBC site loads the video but you cannot click on the play button it just sits there at the first screen or am I doing something wrong

Flash didn't work at all for me on Skyfire. Pinch to zoom was terrible aswell, it has this weird "acceleration" which means it zooms for half a second after you stop moving your fingers which I hated. I uninstalled it for now as the stock browser seems far better.

i am playing flash videos that i can't play on the stock browser....skyfire works great for me...
maybe all the years of helping old ppl crossing the road finally pays off, i am getting a good return...

Leaked Flash 10.2 update

This was posted on AF by Yumms with a link to Flash 10.2.155.67 apk. Couple reports are very positive. Enjoy
http://forum.archosfans.com/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=49794
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/0...ncludes-honeycomb-compatibility-download-now/

Thanks, it's pretty good and better than the 10.1.

Installs fine.
How do you test Flash? (what websites?)

I tested Youtube in 360p and a video on stern.de (I don't know the resolution). But I will test more videos.

Giant plus one on this! I used the flash that is over in the zoom forum and it works great! I've tried every different iteration / hack out there and have never had usabel flash, 10.2 FTW!
Here is the link I used:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=990009

e4xda said:
Giant plus one on this! I used the flash that is over in the zoom forum and it works great! I've tried every different iteration / hack out there and have never had usabel flash, 10.2 FTW!
Here is the link I used:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=990009
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Thank you!
this is assome!this works much better than old 10.1 release.
i have an A101.
Finally theres an really good flash release for our gen8 devices.

Awesome !
Thanks for tellin us this !
-DroidSlave

6 replies and only 2 thanks? Hmm...
lol j/k
I tested it as well and youtube was very watchable in HD. It was the mobile site, but I assume the same would be the case for the full site. I did have a problem with Dolphin HD freezing, but I think that was the browser itself, not having anything to do with Flash.

Has anyone tried this w an A43?
Jim

THANKS a lot !!

Just installed it, my browser crashes each time I try to view a flash video...
Edit: Just rebooted the 101, it seems to be much better

It's not installing for me, the whole tablet freezes... tried 3 times and had to keep the power button pressed for it to come back to life. Did you guys uninstall 10.1 first? I have a 101 on the latest fw release.

i have had installed flash 10.1 first and then 10.2 from here thanx again for that post

awink1 said:
It's not installing for me, the whole tablet freezes... tried 3 times and had to keep the power button pressed for it to come back to life. Did you guys uninstall 10.1 first? I have a 101 on the latest fw release.
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Ok... tried again and it installed the fourth time, but whilst the video is smoother than with 10.1, the audio is out of sync
Any advice?
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using XDA App

Jarod_mellor said:
Has it been released to the public yet?
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official? no
http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/11/flash-10-2-beta-hits-android-market-on-march-18th-only-supports/

this sounds good will try

awink1 said:
Ok... tried again and it installed the fourth time, but whilst the video is smoother than with 10.1, the audio is out of sync
Any advice?
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What browser are you using? I found that with the heavier browser like Dolphin HD, it was giving me problems. I tried Opera browser and didn't have much problems playing flash vids.

Thanks for this,
I have tested this on the app 'Tv Shows' and and the BBC iPlayer app, it seems much better than 10.1 so far and hasnt crashed of had any audio/video sync issues.

Awesome sauce! Works like a dream on my 101!
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A70S?
I've installed it on my A70, and it doesn't seem to work. Is it not supposed to on the A70? What sites beside youtube can anyone suggest? I'm always redirected to the m.youtube site.

what browser do you use on ics?

Just wondering what the majority of you are using as your default browser. I've always used Dolphin hd but been getting a lot of force closes. Still use it though as I love all the addons.

Opera for me
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Stock browser
or Chrome sometimes.

ICS +
Stock browser with added features. Works and integrates quite well.

Disabled stock browser, using Chrome Beta for Android, in fricking heaven!
No Flash support, don't care

Using good old Dolphin for PAD browser, imo still the best.
With best regards, maris

Originally using stock ICS browser but this week changed to Opera Mobile. So far it looks and behaves pretty good.

maris__ said:
Using good old Dolphin for PAD browser, imo still the best.
With best regards, maris
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That one hasn't had an update in months I think they've forgotten about it.

Irieone said:
ICS +
Stock browser with added features. Works and integrates quite well.
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The desktop toggle function only seems to work on a few sites for me. I like my sites
unmobiled

irishmoe said:
That one hasn't had an update in months I think they've forgotten about it.
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Because it didn't need one

Fair enough Maris

Chrome. Works pretty well.

jimbobtexas said:
Chrome. Works pretty well.
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No flash not a problem for you? I watch a few online highlights (football) sites.
I can't try it myself, it's unavailable here.

Chrome is good for me only to grab the websites i 've open on my computer, then copy paste the url in the STOCK browser...
I just hope one day get rid about this CPU eater FLASH!

just trying out opera now, I'm quite surprised. Last time I tried it images on sites wouldn't load for me and it kept opening mobile versions of sites. Granted it was at least 6 months ago that I tried it last but it seems to have improved a lot.
I may stick with it for a while until dolphin gets sorted for ics properly.

veer01_42 said:
Disabled stock browser, using Chrome Beta for Android, in fricking heaven!
No Flash support, don't care
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Love chrome. Did not know even a beta was available. Installing it now.

Stock or Dolphin

I use firefox for the sync and the addon. Plus I've been using firefox on my desktop for like 4 or 5 years

chrome beta so far the best for me...

Try tint browser , very similar to to ics+ browser but alot faster

No Flash from now on. Anyone else finding it an inconvenience on their 7?

Let's face it, no matter how much business you can make with your Nexus 7, a tablet is designed mainly for entertainment. A bigger screen usually means that we get to enjoy certain medias on a bigger screen, aka videos. However not every streaming website can afford or even cares enough to have fancy apps like Youtube and if you stream live channels online for emergency sports on your work computer you would know that flash still plays a part in our daily life.
As Adobe quits on Flash on our future Androids to get everyone into the HTML5 stage, PC users will still have a fairly high amount of data for grabs through Flash but our tablets will be losing that whole side of information while the transition goes through. Although I don't, but I could imagine my girlfriend playing an online Flash game on my 7 but it won't happen anymore.
and... we lose one thing to show-off to the iOS users...
How is everyone else coping with the fading of Flash on our mobile devices?

you can still side load flash and use it with other browsers it works well

hunter3160 said:
you can still side load flash and use it with other browsers it works well
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+100 to that

+1 using aosp browser and the latest adobe flash. Stole it from my mobile.
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pretty easy to get flash..
First install the AOSP browser:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1780746
After that, I still had some newer flash content saying it needed the latest flash player, so installed the two flash players from this thread:
http://forums.androidcentral.com/go...189897-no-flash-got-you-down-try-fix.html#anb
Works perfectly now!

Yeah I was bummed out when I first read that on Adobes web site. Yeah eventually most sites will hopefully change or add support for our tablets and phones to compensate foir Adobe doing that however being that we have the lovely OS that we do there are very easy workarounds! I installed the AOSP browser @ http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1780746 and flash @ https://www.dropbox.com/s/cgsd3gyy7v6c90j/com.adobe.flashplayer-1.apk This is great too because I prefer the AOSP browser (I love the full screen mode with quick controls). The bookmarks don't sync though.. So I just kept the Chrome Bookmarks widget on my homescreen and set the default browser as Browser. Works like a charm!

I despise flash so I don't miss it on my device, at least not for anything important. Bring on HTML5!

yea everyone despises flash. high CPU usage low performance. but it has been playing such a big part in the past 10 years or so that it might just be TOO sudden a change when not everyone has gone to HTML5 and officially taken out flash as a whole. This might hurt Android as it is a crucial time Post-Jobs for android to have a major counter attack on iOS and an obvious visible advantage has been taken out.

I sideloaded flash & firefox for iplayer but other than that I haven't missed, the sooner flash dies the better.
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I have had absolutely no problem with not having Flash.
When you referred to other streaming sites, are you talking about porn sites? lol

I sideloaded flash and the AOSP browser so I could use iPlayer, but that's pretty much it. Also added the iPlayer app once I found the APK.

woshiweili said:
I have had absolutely no problem with not having Flash.
When you referred to other streaming sites, are you talking about porn sites? lol
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Hahaha maybe but no actually I care more about streaming sports haha

hunter3160 said:
you can still side load flash and use it with other browsers it works well
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It works for now but as time goes on and android has more updates how long will it continue to work? At some point it may break completely.
ben1066 said:
I sideloaded flash and the AOSP browser so I could use iPlayer, but that's pretty much it. Also added the iPlayer app once I found the APK.
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The bbc have already said they are testing a version for 4.1 https://mobile.twitter.com/BBCiPlayer/status/218712600161157120
Sent from my Transformer while the N7 is lost in the Play Store Black Hole.
16gb N7 UK ordered 3rd July.

No.

jmrog said:
pretty easy to get flash..
First install the AOSP browser:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1780746
After that, I still had some newer flash content saying it needed the latest flash player, so installed the two flash players from this thread:
http://forums.androidcentral.com/go...189897-no-flash-got-you-down-try-fix.html#anb
Works perfectly now!
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Was about to link this. Just install the apk and flash content will play on the stock aosp browser .
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