Does apple (specifically iPad and iPhone) support adobe flash player

Question

I'm trying to figure out if Adobe Flash Player is compatible with the iPhone and iPad.  Or if there is an app for Adobe Flash.  I'm taking a course that requires Flash to access the course materials

Answer 1

swiggins01 wrote:
It didn't sound like it.  When I went in and had a "chat" with the representative she simply said that Flash would have to be installed and that the pop up blocker should be off.  So, I really dont' need an app to watch videos really ...
You do need an app if you want to watch Flash videos produced by someone who has also created an app to let iOS viewers see the same content; in that case you'd use the app produced by that developer. Or, you need an app of some sort to watch those same Flash videos if the developer has not created an iOS app to play his content, in that case one created by someone else to more generically play (some) Flash content.
There are a range of them out there, varying in form and content, and no one of them is "best". You simply have to try them out with the content you are trying to see and, with luck, you'll find something that works for you.
And finally, you are quite typically asking your main question in the wrong way. It is not and never was a matter of Apple not 'supporting' Flash, or not 'allowing' Flash content on their devices. Flash doesn't work that way, it's not a mere switch that Apple can turn on or off. It is, instead, an application (reader) which is produced solely by Adobe and has to be licensed from them and them alone, using their proprietary software standards. After literally years of effort, with Apple and Adobe working closely together, Adobe had never been able to produce a version of Flash which worked well enough on mobile devices for Apple to allow it onto their system.
In fact, as I recall the history, the first version of Mobile Flash which worked even halfway well on any mobile devices wasn't released and available until around November '10, and even then was acceptable only when used with a specially produced version of the Android OS which was compatible with only a limited number of machines out there. That would have been 7+ months after the iPad was first released, and about 3 1/2 years after the iPhone came out.
Up to that point the Android forums were full of people complaining about the choppy, grainy, battery-chomping performance of Flash on their systems. For that matter, you continue to find those same threads on those same forums today, albeit not so much as before. It's not merely coincidental that Adobe has decided to slowly walk away from their Flash cash cow as the world around them moves away from large fixed systems into mobile devices.