
But unfortunately, both iOS and Android fail to play online third party Live Streams natively. Similarly, Android also uses the YouTube app to play Flash videos on YouTube. It uses the YouTube app or YouTube’s HTML 5 version of the player to play videos. So while you still can, you might want to enable and use Flash on your devices. For security and many other reasons, Flash is being discontinued from mobile platforms and being replaced by HTML5, but many of the web components like video streaming still solely depend on Flash.

It is often used to represent animations, transition effects, and even for online videos and streaming. That being said, Flash is but one of the most important elements of a website. Adobe will officially cease Flash support for Android devices shortly. iOS does not support Flash at all and Google Play Store has removed the Flash Player for Android devices.

Running Flash on smartphones is quite a rare feature we see nowadays.
