How to enable Adobe Flash support in Android 5.0 Lollipop

Since Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, the version that arrived in June 2012, Adobe ceased development of Flash for mobile devices. The only way to be able to choose to play flash on a terminal has been through third-party apps and the manual installation of flash player. Among these third-party apps we find Dolphin or Puffin, which are undoubtedly the best options for playing flash videos, especially the latter that allows it without having to install anything optional.

Things changed with Android 4.4 KitKat, as Google took Chromium for WebView, which resulted in most of these third-party web browsers losing Flash support. Although it must be said that Puffin Browser is still going strong in this regard being the first option when I need to play a flash video. And, since we are already facing Android 5.0 Lollipop, you will wonder if you can still see these types of videos, and yes, you can. Let's see below how you can have support for flash videos in Lollipop.

Before going on to list the steps to follow for Flash support in Lollipop, keep in mind that we continue with the problem that certain web browsers cannot reproduce this type of content.

How to activate Adobe Flash in Android 5.0

1) Download Flashfox Browser

• The first thing we need is a web browser that supports flash and at the moment we have in Android 5.0 a possibility called Flashfox, which comes in a free version with advertising and a paid version for € 2,49 that eliminates it. A perfect web browser for this purpose.

2) Download Flashify on Google Play

• Flashify is basically an extension that adds a shortcut from which you can quickly open a page with flash in another browser. In this tutorial we will use Flashfox. To be able to access this extension, the only way will be through the Android share menu, since it will not appear as an app itself in the application drawer. A fact to take into account in case you go crazy when trying to find it. The installation of Flashify is not mandatory but it comes in handy as an extra to the browser that we are going to use.

We already know that most sites have gone to flash, but still others use it, so it can come in handy for certain times. The problem comes with the high battery consumption so it must be used at certain specific times.