Flash support in Android

Question

I am planning to port a flash player to Android OS. Presently Android is not supporting the Flash. I have looked into GNash, an open source flash player but the problem with this is that it is not supporting the latest version flash files and we can't open the youtube with GNash.

Are there any open source light-weight flash players which can be ported to Android.

EDIT: I have also tried SwfDec but even this one is not playing the videos from youtube.

Any other open source players which can play youtube videos?

Answer 1

Of course this could be a fun project to hack; however, you'll soon face real competition from Adobe, who are porting their own player as we speak:

http://www.google.se/search?q=flash+android

Just in case you can afford to wait.

Answer 2

I have used ffmpeg to convert the flv to mp4.

Answer 3

According to Google/OHA member engineers the problem you will have is performance on current device hardware specifically G1s..

My impression is that you will not see flash until the Dalvik VM JIT is finished developmentally...probably not until SDK 3.5 probably..

Answer 4

GNash website states (and my own experience confirms) that GNash actually plays most youtube videos OK. See GNash wiki.