Although its use has been particularly downsized today, some sites still use the Flash Player Plugin to view content such as streaming videos and games. This plugin, however, is now considered insecure by browsers so much that even on Chrome and Firefox for PC it must be enabled manually to run it.
On smartphones and tablets, however, it has practically never been supported. On iPhone and iPad there has never been support for Flash sites, while on Android smartphones, Flash was withdrawn starting from Android Jelly Bean, therefore several years ago.
In case you want to see a Flash site today on iPhone or iPad, on a modern Android smartphone (Huawei, Honor, Samsung and all the others) or even on an Android TVBox or a tablet, a streaming video or a game, this can still be done.
If in the past there were several tricks to enable Flash on Android and iPhone, today this is much easier and you just need to use a browser that has the integrated plugin other than Chrome or Safari.
The browser to download to view videos, animations and Flash games on Android and iPhone is Puffin Browser, which I had already mentioned in the past as one of the most special and particular browsers with which to surf the web. The peculiarity of Puffin lies in the fact that the connection to each website passes through its cloud servers located in the USA. This ensures that every site becomes accessible even if obscured or blocked in Italy and that the connection is very fast thanks to Puffin's data compression technology. Furthermore, as it is a web browser specialized in watching streaming video, each video stream is filtered and displayed through its players, among which there is also the Flash Player.
When you open a Flash site with Puffin, it will open without hindrance, without you installing anything and without having to configure any settings.
The only option to change, for some sites, is to request the desktop version of the browser instead of the mobile version, which can be done from the main Puffin menu.
For better viewing of videos, you can turn the phone horizontally and tap the theater mode button to view it in full screen. Flash content loads very quickly and playback remains as smooth as seen on the PC. The only drawback of Puffin, which in my tests is really the best to see videos on every smartphone, tablet, iPhone, iPad and also on Android TVs and on Fire TV Stick, is that during the viewing additional advertisements may appear. To remove Puffin advertisements, you should download and pay for the Premium version.
Each version of Puffin can be downloaded from the official website.
Alternatively you can also try FlashFox, a version of Firefox modified and optimized to support Flash content.
The app is much slower than Puffin in uploading videos and animations, moreover on some sites there may be problems caused by advertisements above videos, too small buttons of the player and a stability of the application that is not optimal.
Another way to enable Flash on Android, which didn't work on my smartphone, is to download the old Flash Player for Android, the latest version released in 2013:
Flash Player 11.1 for Android 4.0 (11.1.115.81)
Once Flash is installed, (remembering to activate the installation from Unknown sources in Android settings), it should be activated automatically using a web browser such as Dolphin Browser where in the settings you can ask to always have Flash enabled.
On smartphones and tablets, however, it has practically never been supported. On iPhone and iPad there has never been support for Flash sites, while on Android smartphones, Flash was withdrawn starting from Android Jelly Bean, therefore several years ago.
In case you want to see a Flash site today on iPhone or iPad, on a modern Android smartphone (Huawei, Honor, Samsung and all the others) or even on an Android TVBox or a tablet, a streaming video or a game, this can still be done.
If in the past there were several tricks to enable Flash on Android and iPhone, today this is much easier and you just need to use a browser that has the integrated plugin other than Chrome or Safari.
The browser to download to view videos, animations and Flash games on Android and iPhone is Puffin Browser, which I had already mentioned in the past as one of the most special and particular browsers with which to surf the web. The peculiarity of Puffin lies in the fact that the connection to each website passes through its cloud servers located in the USA. This ensures that every site becomes accessible even if obscured or blocked in Italy and that the connection is very fast thanks to Puffin's data compression technology. Furthermore, as it is a web browser specialized in watching streaming video, each video stream is filtered and displayed through its players, among which there is also the Flash Player.
When you open a Flash site with Puffin, it will open without hindrance, without you installing anything and without having to configure any settings.
The only option to change, for some sites, is to request the desktop version of the browser instead of the mobile version, which can be done from the main Puffin menu.
For better viewing of videos, you can turn the phone horizontally and tap the theater mode button to view it in full screen. Flash content loads very quickly and playback remains as smooth as seen on the PC. The only drawback of Puffin, which in my tests is really the best to see videos on every smartphone, tablet, iPhone, iPad and also on Android TVs and on Fire TV Stick, is that during the viewing additional advertisements may appear. To remove Puffin advertisements, you should download and pay for the Premium version.
Each version of Puffin can be downloaded from the official website.
Alternatively you can also try FlashFox, a version of Firefox modified and optimized to support Flash content.
The app is much slower than Puffin in uploading videos and animations, moreover on some sites there may be problems caused by advertisements above videos, too small buttons of the player and a stability of the application that is not optimal.
Another way to enable Flash on Android, which didn't work on my smartphone, is to download the old Flash Player for Android, the latest version released in 2013:
Flash Player 11.1 for Android 4.0 (11.1.115.81)
Once Flash is installed, (remembering to activate the installation from Unknown sources in Android settings), it should be activated automatically using a web browser such as Dolphin Browser where in the settings you can ask to always have Flash enabled.
