Installing Adobe Flash on Android Jelly Bean devices

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Step 1: Download the Adobe Flash APK

Google Android Jelly Bean 4.1 does not officially support the Adobe Flash player. Although a number of sites have made the transition to HTML5, you may still find yourself needing to access Flash content.

It is possible to activate Flash on a Jelly Bean device manually without having to root it. We cannot guarantee that Flash will work for all, but we have tried it on the Google Nexus 7 and Galaxy Nexus smartphone and it should work on others.

Before you get started we should point out this is not recommended by Adobe or Google and there will not be any patches to update stability or security. You install this at your own risk.

Khidr Suleman is the Technical Editor at IT Pro, a role he has fulfilled since March 2012. He is responsible for the reviews section on the site - so get in touch if you have a product you think might be of interest to the business world. He also covers the hardware and operating systems beats. Prior to joining IT Pro, Khidr worked as a reporter at Incisive Media. He studied law at the University of Reading and completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Magazine Journalism and Online Writing at PMA Training.