How to Manually Install Flash Player on a nabi 2/Andoid Tablet Prepared by Mike Gold for WatchKnowLearn November 10, 2012

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1 How to Manually Install Flash Player on a nabi 2/Andoid Tablet Prepared by Mike Gold for WatchKnowLearn November 10, 2012 I have had the great privilege of working with a tremendous non-profit organization for the past couple days. The organization is WatchKnowLearn, They have developed an amazing free educational wiki along with a very effective tool to help kids learn to read called Reading Bear, This Adobe Flash based system is easily accessed over a browser and requires very little to no configuration and technical expertise from teachers and students to use. All content has been assembled by highly trained and qualified professionals. It is a pretty amazing system that offers free access to quality educational materials to everyone. The Challenge. Flash is increasingly losing support on many platforms, the latest being Google Android. The problem is that there are many educational programs written on this platform that can benefit from mobile access to their services. In this case, WatchKnowLearn has equipped a preschool in the Orange Mound area with durable Nabi tablets to access their Reading Bear program. The tablets needed an update in their local flash player installs in order to run the program correctly. With Adobe/Google Android support waning on this platform, the update is no longer available on Google Play. This document provides steps for manually installing flash on a Nabi 2 device % of the credit for this post goes to Chris Campbell from Adobe who posted stellar step by step instructions out on Adobe s Flash Player FAQ forum. You can read directly at The instructions provided in the link above are instructions for manually installing Adobe Flash on an Android device. This document focuses primarily on performing this procedure on nabi2 devices. For more information regarding Nabi2 tablets, visit Notice: The steps provided in this document have only been tested on Nabi2 devices running Android Version Ice Cream Sandwich. How to Manually Install Flash Player on a nabi 2/Andoid Tablet 1

They have developed an amazing free educational wiki along with a very effective tool to help kids learn to read called Reading Bear, http://www.readingbear.org.

2 Step 1 Place tablet into Mommy or Daddy mode. A Touch Menu Button located in the lower left corner of the nabi screen. B Touch Mommy Mode icon. C Enter Mommy Mode password then touch the Submit button. How to Manually Install Flash Player on a nabi 2/Andoid Tablet 2

3 Step 2 Allow Installation of non-market Apps A. Locate and touch Settings icon on nabi home screen. B. Select Security C. Make sure that there is a check mark in the Unknown sources check box. D. Touch OK when prompted with warning E. Touch home button to return to home screen How to Manually Install Flash Player on a nabi 2/Andoid Tablet 3

Make sure that there is a check mark in the Unknown sources check box. D.

4 Step 3 Install Flash Update A. Touch Maxthon Browser icon on Nabi home screen Icon to launch Maxthon Browser. B. Go to html Look for and touch Flash Player 11.1 for Android 4.0 ( ) How to Manually Install Flash Player on a nabi 2/Andoid Tablet 4

adobe.com/flashplayer/kb/archived-flash-playerversions.

5 C. Touch the OK button to launch the Download Manager and start the download process. D. Once Download has completed, touch the install_flash_player_ics.apk file in the Download manager screen. This will launch the Flash installer. E. If a version of Flash has already been installed, Touch OK on the Replace application screen. How to Manually Install Flash Player on a nabi 2/Andoid Tablet 5

Once Download has completed, touch the install_flash_player_ics.

6 F. Touch the Install Button G. Touch Done after the application is installed Step 4 Exit Mommy Mode A Touch nabi Mode icon to exit Mommy mode and place tablet back in nabi Mode. How to Manually Install Flash Player on a nabi 2/Andoid Tablet 6

7 Step 5 Test Installation A. Touch Web icon in nabi home screen to launch browser. B. Visit and touch any of the reading courses at the bottom of the home page to start a presentation. The following link should also produce a valid test entation.aspx?presentationid=1 &Part=1 C. A successful test should result in all presentation videos playing successfully. How to Manually Install Flash Player on a nabi 2/Andoid Tablet 7

The following link should also produce a valid test http://www.readingbear.org/pres entation.aspx?

8 Glossary Maxthon Browser Lets you set up a safe web environment by creating a safe list of websites you want to allow your kids to access. Mommy Mode - In Mommy/Daddy Mode, parents can enjoy the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich environment without kid-safe restrictions. When your kids are at school or asleep, you can watch your favorite movie or TV show, download music or do some online shopping. Mommy/Daddy Mode features an Android browser and a Maxthon Browser, its own application store, as well as all the utilities commonly found in the Android environment. How to Manually Install Flash Player on a nabi 2/Andoid Tablet 8

When your kids are at school or asleep, you can watch your favorite movie or TV show, download music or do some online shopping.

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