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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...

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

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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

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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.
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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
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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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Forcing HTML5, or Why I don't use most stock-based ROMs

I'm hoping someone can help me with this dilemma:
JB, and most of the mobile world, it seems, no longer support Flash and are moving toward HTML5. Yet, ESPN continues to treat Android tablets as Flash-capable and don't play videos on my TF300T.... unless I switch the user agent on the stock browser to ipad (gasp!),at which point HTML5 videos are displayed and play fine (though browser FC occur after full screen viewing).
However, and I don't know enough about building ROMs to fully comprehend, the stock browser on stock-based ROMs don't include the option for selecting a different user agent, whereas CM10 and Baked 6 do.
I've read great posts about the performance of some ROMs, but I've always switched back once I find that I can't play videos on ESPN's web site. Can someone fill me in on how I could get *all* sites that support HTML5 to provide that by default?
Thanks in advance.
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bsaman said:
I'm hoping someone can help me with this dilemma:
JB, and most of the mobile world, it seems, no longer support Flash and are moving toward HTML5. Yet, ESPN continues to treat Android tablets as Flash-capable and don't play videos on my TF300T.... unless I switch the user agent on the stock browser to ipad (gasp!),at which point HTML5 videos are displayed and play fine (though browser FC occur after full screen viewing).
However, and I don't know enough about building ROMs to fully comprehend, the stock browser on stock-based ROMs don't include the option for selecting a different user agent, whereas CM10 and Baked 6 do.
I've read great posts about the performance of some ROMs, but I've always switched back once I find that I can't play videos on ESPN's web site. Can someone fill me in on how I could get *all* sites that support HTML5 to provide that by default?
Thanks in advance.
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I am on cromi 3.0.4 and I just checked ESPN. Simply long press the video you want to watch then choose open in new browser this will pop up a window asking if you wish to play it in MX player, video player etc. I use MX player and it plays great. U have to download MX player from Google play by the way

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I am on cromi 3.0.4 and I just checked ESPN. Simply long press the video you want to watch then choose open in new browser this will pop up a window asking if you wish to play it in MX player
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I'm not sure I understand. What is cromi 3.0.4?
I have MX Player installed, but when I visit espn.com (the desktop site) I see " You need to have the Adobe Flash Player to view this content. Please click here to continue." Long pressing the space where the video should be doesn't return anything. This happens in the stock browser and Chrome.

bsaman said:
I'm not sure I understand. What is cromi 3.0.4?
I have MX Player installed, but when I visit espn.com (the desktop site) I see " You need to have the Adobe Flash Player to view this content. Please click here to continue." Long pressing the space where the video should be doesn't return anything. This happens in the stock browser and Chrome.
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cromi 3.0.4 is clean rom inheritance. its a custom rom based on stock asus rom. works well for me and the fellow that made it seems to be supporting as well as anyone could. anyway it has flash player built in although you can actually just install the apk on any rom if you go to old versions of adobe flash player then scroll down to find the latest for ice cream sandwich (4.0) and download it. but it never worked as well in any other rom as it does in this one, at least for me.

conan1600 said:
anyway it has flash player built in although you can actually just install the apk on any rom
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Oh, I see. My issue is that I feel that I shouldn't have to pollute my tablet with outdated, unsupported software to get basic functionality that is otherwise accessible by mimicking an ipad via the browser's user agent. I mean, the functionality is right there in the browser and works much better than flash.
I should also be able to use any third party browser, including those that don't offer flash support (i.e Firefox) without websites thinking "oh, an android device; load up the outdated video player." That's probably a point to make to ESPN, I suspect.
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bsaman said:
Oh, I see. My issue is that I feel that I shouldn't have to pollute my tablet with outdated, unsupported software to get basic functionality that is otherwise accessible by mimicking an ipad via the browser's user agent. I mean,the functionality is right there inthe browser and works much better than flash.
I should also be able to use any third party browluding those that don't offer flash support (i.e Firefox) without websites thinking "oh, an android device; load up the outdated video player." That's probably a point to make to ESPN, I suspect.
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I would say your right. Its my wish that web site makers would get to working on this issue. I like to read marvel comics unlimited and they use flash as well nor have they at this time made an app to read on android so if you don't enable flash then your out of luck on a mobile device. I will most likely buy the surface pro upon its debut so that my web surfing is not limited on moblile. I already own a few dell xt3 tablet PC's and they work well but are large so i have hope for the surface with core i5

You can install flash on jb with the apk
There are some threads and Adobe s website
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The Internet Experience (lack there off)

Hello All,
I have a xoom on eos 4 I have flash installed, I have all the browsers installed. The flash content on the websites do not function. I am talking about the buttons, the advertising inserts, etc. They all have glow when touched, but no love.
I am aware of that adobe does not support android, but where does that leave the rest of the world? Android has a significant percentage of the marketpace, is ipad immune to this?
I do not believe that the xoom has hardware acceleration, but I cannot watch any online episodes, yet you tube is dandy. Is that a flash thing as well.? A workaround?
Also, I remember seeing a setting which will render full sites rather than " mobile sites" can anyone tell me how to enable that.
If someone could enlighten me on how to achieve Internet bliss resembling the Internet performance on a desktop/laptop I would be a happy camper. My apologies if I am perceived as whining.
I cannot believe that I am the only one experiencing this.
Thanks in advance,

Adobe stopped supporting the Flash plugin past Ice Cream Sandwich.
The ipad is not immune to the same issue
On the top right of the broswer or chrome click on and then select request desktop site.
Sometimes you can also scroll all the way down the website and click on Desktop version or something of the like
Youtube works in the web browser because google implements html5 video tag.
The xoom ever since honeycomb 3.2 has had hardware acceleration.
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[Q] streaming on browser?

Hi, I am really excited about Ouya, not much about its games ability, but more as a streaming device, working with XBMC, however, I do often watch soccer games on the internet and my girlfriend watches her favorite Brazilians shows steamed by a website, I know, quality not superb, but still, I can watch the game and it's all that matters
Anyway, I was wondering if flash streaming would work without any lags on Ouya
Sorry, I'm tired and my English really sucks today, hope you'll understand
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I'm sure there is a way
I know i tried flat out just installing flash and it seem like it didn't work for me. You might want to look into custom roms once it becomes a lot more safe.

I have not done this, but have heard plenty of people streaming via flash. I think you just need to sideload the app and then sideload a browser that uses flash and has the option to display as desktop (such as Dolphin). i don't think you can with the built in browser, but I could be wrong.

Flash works in the stock browser just fine. Don't know about live streams but flash in general works. Just put the official flash player app on your ouya. I recommend the version number 11.1.115.20 because that was the one with fewer bugs for android devices in general.