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剛剛發佈的 Android 4.1 Jelly Bean（了解）是不支援 Flash Player 的，即表示使用 Android 4.1 的裝置並不支援 Flash。而 Adobe 亦表示無意為 Android 4.1 開發 Flash Player，還指 Flash Player 將會退出 Android，其它 Android 裝置，不論是任何 Android 版本，都將不會在 Play Store 找到 Flash Player。詳情請閱讀全文！

Adobe 表示不會開發支援 Android 4.1 Jelly Bean 的 Flash Player，也不會在 Android 4.1 測試使用舊 Flash Player，即是不保證舊版本的 Flash Player 能夠在 Android 4.1 正常運作。另一方面，Adobe 宣佈在 8 月 15 日起封鎖 Flash Player 的下載，只允許已安裝了 Flash Player 的裝置進行小更新（例如改善安全性）。究竟 Android 會否面臨不支援 Flash？暫時也不知道。

官方新聞稿（英語）：
An Update on Flash Player and Android
We announced last November that we are focusing our work with Flash on PC browsing and mobile apps packaged with Adobe AIR, and will be discontinuing our development of the Flash Player for mobile browsers. This post provides an update on what this means for ongoing access to the Flash Player browser plugin for Android in the Google Play Store.

The Flash Player browser plugin integrates tightly with a device’s browser and multimedia subsystems (in ways that typical apps do not), and this necessitates integration by our device ecosystem partners. To ensure that the Flash Player provides the best possible experience for users, our partner program requires certification of each Flash Player implementation. Certification includes extensive testing to ensure web content works as expected, and that the Flash Player provides a good user experience. Certified devices typically include the Flash Player pre-loaded at the factory or as part of a system update.

Devices that don’t have the Flash Player provided by the manufacturer typically are uncertified, meaning the manufacturer has not completed the certification testing requirements. In many cases users of uncertified devices have been able to download the Flash Player from the Google Play Store, and in most cases it worked. However, with Android 4.1 this is no longer going to be the case, as we have not continued developing and testing Flash Player for this new version of Android and its available browser options. There will be no certified implementations of Flash Player for Android 4.1.

Beginning August 15th we will use the configuration settings in the Google Play Store to limit continued access to Flash Player updates to only those devices that have Flash Player already installed. Devices that do not have Flash Player already installed are increasingly likely to be incompatible with Flash Player and will no longer be able to install it from the Google Play Store after August 15th.

The easiest way to ensure ongoing access to Flash Player on Android 4.0 or earlier devices is to use certified devices and ensure that the Flash Player is either pre-installed by the manufacturer or installed from Google Play Store before August 15th. If a device is upgraded from Android 4.0 to Android 4.1, the current version of Flash Player may exhibit unpredictable behavior, as it is not certified for use with Android 4.1. Future updates to Flash Player will not work. We recommend uninstalling Flash Player on devices which have been upgraded to Android 4.1.

For developers who need ongoing access to released versions of Flash Player for Android, those will remain available in the archive of released Flash Player versions. Installations made from the archive will not receive updates through the Google Play Store.

As always this and other Flash runtime roadmap updates can be found in the Adobe roadmap for the Flash runtimes white paper.

If you are using the mobile browser with Flash for video playback, please see our blog post here about various options available to help with this change.