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human
ELI5: The recent discontinued support of Flash on Android 4.1 and beyond

I have no idea what to expect but what i understood is that new android phones wont be able to install it?
gpt
Ok.  I'll try.  People are blowing this way out of proportion, and there is too much false information.

The first concept to grasp is that apps run "on top" of the OS.  Think of it like a layered cake, at the bottom layer is the hardware, on top of that is Android, and on top of that (the top layer the user sees and interacts with) is application layer.

So.  Flash requires a lot of system resource to do it's work properly.  This means it cannot be run on the normal application layer, and must be integrated into the OS layer.  This sucks for everybody as integration at this level is a lot of work.  Think about it for a minute, the implications of running some one elses code at the OS level.  If an application is malicious or poorly written it is limited to the application level, but all the sandboxing and security is not relevant in this scenario.  There is a ton of security reviews, testing, and possible new issues with the integration changes.  Adobe also has to certify *each* device, which is a ton of overhead costs.

So, nobody wants to do it.  But Google did, to give them an edge over iPhone.  And now, they have taken advantage of that edge and are on par with iPhone.  So they don't need native flash anymore.

Adobe recognizes this, and they are going to stop supporting flash IN NATIVE WEB BROWSERS.  They are instead focusing their efforts on Adobe AIR, a cross-platform runtime environment that runs in the application space that can run flash programs.

This isn't the end of the world.  It's the evolution of flash.