Hi Guys, just hoping some of you might be APP devs and can answer me a question.. With Google now starting to block the API that runs Java and Silverlight on their browser, just wondering if you'd think it will affect app's written for Android phones/tablets. I'm just about to start an app training course, which is based around html and java - be a waste of time if the protocols are about to change. I'm already seeing programs that my work use no longer running. (due to the default browser being chrome - and the program calling the web browser) Already it seems BT Sports, Now TV, Netflix users are experiencing problems because of it. I know I could just switch to a different browser, but how does it affect apps? surely the 'lock out' will effect them too? And incase you dont know what I'm whittering on about: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer...verlight-in-chrome-by-disabling-npapi-plug-in It disables Java as well - as of yesterday, this new 'blockout' came into effect.
No. The only thing which is blocked is NPAPI - browser plugins for Mozilla. PPAPI still works (browser plugins for Chrome). Once MS/Oracle moves their plugins to PPAPI, they will work again. Android is completely separate ecosystem, it doesn't even technically run Java. Language is Java, but the binaries and the runtime enviroment isn't.
It also shows how ignorant big company developers are. NPAPI deprecation was announced in late 2013 ! Also last year there were tech news sites reporting about it, about the fact that by April 2015, NPAPI will by off by default and by September 2015 it will be off. Solution from DICE for BF4 Battlelog ? Turn NPAPI on . http://www.chromium.org/developers/npapi-deprecation
