Scratch 2 (online Flash version) on Learnpad tablet?

[delta7]

Wondering if anyone has managed to get the online version of Scratch 2 to work on a Learnpad tablet? Our older versions have Flash installed and will play other Flash material, but won't open the Scratch editor page.

 

Also on a Flash note, our latest Learnpads (Workbooks) don't seem to have Flash installed - is this the way of things now?

 

Thanks for any advice.

[Arthur]

is this the way of things now?

Adobe discontinued Flash Player way back in 2012 for Android 4.1 (and newer devices).

 

http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2012/06/flash-player-and-android-update.html

 

There will be no certified implementations of Flash Player for Android 4.1.

 

It will also be EOL for everything else in 2020.

 

www.edugeek.net/forums/news/186921-adobe-announces-flash-eol-date.html

[Arthur]

There's a HTML5 version of Scratch which you could run through a browser on the tablets.

 

https://beta.scratch.mit.edu/

 

See also: https://en.scratch-wiki.info/wiki/Scratch_on_Mobile_Devices

Edited September 6, 2018 by Arthur

[delta7]

Thanks Arthur - really helpful; we'll give the html5 version a go.

[delta7]

Hi Arthur

We've yet to use it with pupils, but the html5 beta of Scratch seems to work fine on our Learnpads - many thanks!

Code Club volunteers are using a Trinket project at the moment, which also works fine except that a strange box character appears at the start of any text they input via the Learnpad onscreen keypad - has to be deleted each time, which is slightly irritating, but at least it works.

[Arthur]

the html5 beta of Scratch seems to work fine on our Learnpads - many thanks!

That's good to hear.

 

Code Club volunteers are using a Trinket project at the moment, which also works fine except that a strange box character appears at the start of any text they input via the Learnpad onscreen keypad

Are you using the default LearnPad web browser? I wonder if Chrome or Firefox would work better and not add the box character?

 

https://support.learnpad.com/portal/kb/articles/overriding-the-learnpad-browser

[delta7]

Thanks again - have overridden the Learnpad browser for that Resource (with Chrome), we'll see how it goes.