how to enable Flash plug-in on Android 2.3 WebView

[Sergey Armishev <Se...@Netgear.com>]

Sorry for bothering you,dear developers but it seems like only you can answer.
I have RTMP live stream that I want to show on Android 2.3 using Cordova v.3.... The native Android browser shows streaming OK in Flash plug-in but when I convert HTML page to the Cordova/Android app it complains that "you have no flash plug-in installed"
Is it possible and how to activate Flash plug-in in WebView?
If it is not possible please tell me ASAP so I can go looking for other solutions

-Sergey


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RE: how to enable Flash plug-in on Android 2.3 WebView

[Sergey Armishev <Se...@Netgear.com>]

Thank you, Nick for advise. I am for HTML5 but unfortunately we are not living in ideal world where we can use only ideal solutions. Here is what I found how to enable Flash plug-in in Android 2.3 providing that it is already installed. That piece of code not for Cordova developers but for Cordova application  developers who has the same problem. The method setPluginState was deprecated so it should be used only for old phones running Android 2.3 Gingerbread (not sure about other versions)

    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        super.init();
        this.appView.getSettings().setPluginState(PluginState.ON);
        super.loadUrl(Config.getStartUrl());
        //super.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/www/index.html")
    }

On the side note. It is pretty simple one-line-API call but it is not written anywhere and I didn't got right answer not from you developers and not from PhoneGap community. I am new to Cordova and just wondering why such simple question was not answered? Or everybody under some NDA :)

-Sergey
________________________________
From: Nick Lombard [nick@jigsoft.co.za]
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 2:50 AM
To: dev@cordova.apache.org; Sergey Armishev
Subject: Re: how to enable Flash plug-in on Android 2.3 WebView

Sergey,

You should ideally look at html5 video instead as the reason why we are moving away from flash (aside from the politics) is because it doesn't benefit from any battery optimised hardware rendering your device might have and has to rely on software only to transcode the stream.

That said, you can still get them from adobe's download page, browsing for older versions, but my advice, your best bet is aptoide.

nJoy!



On 25 September 2013 00:35, Sergey Armishev <Se...@netgear.com>> wrote:
Sorry for bothering you,dear developers but it seems like only you can answer.
I have RTMP live stream that I want to show on Android 2.3 using Cordova v.3.... The native Android browser shows streaming OK in Flash plug-in but when I convert HTML page to the Cordova/Android app it complains that "you have no flash plug-in installed"
Is it possible and how to activate Flash plug-in in WebView?
If it is not possible please tell me ASAP so I can go looking for other solutions

-Sergey


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Re: how to enable Flash plug-in on Android 2.3 WebView

[Nick Lombard <ni...@jigsoft.co.za>]

Sergey,

You should ideally look at html5 video instead as the reason why we are
moving away from flash (aside from the politics) is because it doesn't
benefit from any battery optimised hardware rendering your device might
have and has to rely on software only to transcode the stream.

That said, you can still get them from adobe's download page, browsing for
older versions, but my advice, your best bet is aptoide.

nJoy!



On 25 September 2013 00:35, Sergey Armishev <Se...@netgear.com>wrote:

> Sorry for bothering you,dear developers but it seems like only you can
> answer.
> I have RTMP live stream that I want to show on Android 2.3 using Cordova
> v.3.... The native Android browser shows streaming OK in Flash plug-in but
> when I convert HTML page to the Cordova/Android app it complains that "you
> have no flash plug-in installed"
> Is it possible and how to activate Flash plug-in in WebView?
> If it is not possible please tell me ASAP so I can go looking for other
> solutions
>
> -Sergey
>
>
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