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Help How can I launch flash apps on tablet sd card?

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jasu

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I am an interactive training developer and use Adobe Flash. My customers want access to the apps from Android tablets. I purchased an Archos 101 got to the marketplace and downloaded the flash player. I can now view interactive training apps via the internal browser on the tablet. Flash plays great over wi-fi. But, the customers want to run the apps locally from internal memory or preferably and sd card.

So, the question is, how can I launch a flash application from an sd card or internally from the Archos 101 tablet?

The flash launch file is an index.html file.

Note: I am able to load the same flash application on my HTC EVO on internal memory and launch it with no problem. It just does not like to have an icon launch but runs from the bookmark fine.

I feel this is a critical feature and don't understand why the OS doesn't seem to have built in support for this.

Thanks in advance for any help...
 
You say it works on your evo, are you using the same browser?

try installing a different browser in the 101 like Dolphin HD.

Also see if in the settings, there is an option to download content for viewing offline.
The browser will have to cache the pages that hold the flash app before they will be able to view them offline.

Maybe your evo is using the HTC browser, it might have cached the pages that you are viewing, but the 101 is using the stock android browser and hasnt.

goodluck.
 
You are right on the EVO... it seems to have a different browser and that seems to be teh key... so great advise on the Dolphin HD for the Archos tablet. It worked and I really like it. I use this url to launch the apps on the sdcard:

content://com.android.htmlfileprovider/sdcard/example/file.html

The html file that loads the Flash swf files loaded up perfectly and all the interactivity works great... except... some swfs have a button on them to play a Flash flv video clip. The clips don't play when accessed from the sdcard... but the same app/videos play when I access them on the web server from the tablet using Dolphin HD.

So, I am a long way there with your help which is very much appreciated. I only have one hurtle more... how to make the flvs play from the apps.

Again, thanks for your great help!
 
Hi again... here is a better refinement of the problem:

1. After your great recommendation to switch to the Dolphin browser I was able to launch the flash applications and everything worked except when clicking a button to play an flv video clip. The player is a standard Adobe Flash FLV player 10. The video is standard flv video. Note that the same tablet and browser can see the files perfectly including the flv video when viewed on a remote web server via the wi-fi. They just do not play on the Archos 101 tablet with 2.2.1 update. I tried replacing the flv video clips with mpg4 video clips. No joy! They play over the web but not from internal storage.

I even tried bypassing the flash application and playing the mpg4 directly by using a file manager to launch it... it played perfectly in the archos 101 android player full screen. So, I know it is not an issue with the video formats.

2. I decided to see if the app and video would play on another android device. I have an Android HTC EVO phone with an sd card and tried copying the same application and flv video clips onto it. They would NOT play with the default browser but when I installed the Dolphin HD browser they played just fine from the sd card as well as from the web.

3. I have tried everything to get the 101 to play a flash launched video in the Flash flv player. No joy. The odd thing is that the browsers are the same, the data is the same, the sd cards are the same, the version of Android is the same, but the playback isn't.

I can only guess that the Archos 101 has something preventing the flv from playing. Any ideas?
 
jasu said:
Hi again... here is a better refinement of the problem:

1. After your great recommendation to switch to the Dolphin browser I was able to launch the flash applications and everything worked except when clicking a button to play an flv video clip. The player is a standard Adobe Flash FLV player 10. The video is standard flv video. Note that the same tablet and browser can see the files perfectly including the flv video when viewed on a remote web server via the wi-fi. They just do not play on the Archos 101 tablet with 2.2.1 update. I tried replacing the flv video clips with mpg4 video clips. No joy! They play over the web but not from internal storage.

I even tried bypassing the flash application and playing the mpg4 directly by using a file manager to launch it... it played perfectly in the archos 101 android player full screen. So, I know it is not an issue with the video formats.

2. I decided to see if the app and video would play on another android device. I have an Android HTC EVO phone with an sd card and tried copying the same application and flv video clips onto it. They would NOT play with the default browser but when I installed the Dolphin HD browser they played just fine from the sd card as well as from the web.

3. I have tried everything to get the 101 to play a flash launched video in the Flash flv player. No joy. The odd thing is that the browsers are the same, the data is the same, the sd cards are the same, the version of Android is the same, but the playback isn't.

I can only guess that the Archos 101 has something preventing the flv from playing. Any ideas?
Click to expand...

Not sure what's going on cause the Archos tablets should play FLV files out of the box based on Archos specs: ARCHOS
 
Actually, the Archos 101 does play FLV files when they are clicked. The applications we develop, however, start with an html file which launches a FLASH swf file which in turn has many video clip buttons that each launch a seperate FLV video clip.

The html and swf files work perfectly, but when the video buttons are pushed to play an flv in the Flash FLV player, the video does not work (if the files are on the sd card) ... if I navigate to a web server they play exactly as they are supposed to.

Very frustrating... but thank you for your reply. I believe there is an issue with the way the Archos 101 tablet is configured.
 
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