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Monday, October 05, 2009

Flash for iPhone app development?!

This is not really video related (even though Flash is used to play back a lot of video on the web these days), but Adobe Labs has announced that Flash Professional CS5 will enable you to build applications for iPhone and iPod touch using ActionScript 3. These applications can be delivered to iPhone and iPod touch users through the Apple App Store.

A public beta of Flash Professional CS5 with prerelease support for building applications for iPhone is planned for later this year. Sign up to be notified when the beta starts.

Some notes:

  • The new support for iPhone applications in the Flash Platform tooling will not allow iPhone users to browse web content built with Flash technology on iPhone, but it may allow developers to repackage existing web content as applications for iPhone if they choose to do so.
  • iPhone applications built with Flash Platform tools are compiled into standard, native iPhone executables, just like any other iPhone application.
  • Application cannot load SWF files or other code at runtime, such as a module from a website. iPhone applications built with Flash Platform tools are compiled into standard, native iPhone executable packages and there is no runtime interpreter that could be used to run ActionScript bytecode within the application.



1 comment:

Unknown said...

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