Building Applications for iPhone with Adobe Flash CS5 | Adobe CS. Aditya Bansod – Adobe now makes it possible to create applications for the Apple iPhone using the Adobe Flash CS5. You heard right: We’re really excited to bring this new capability to Flash designers and developers—the ability to target the iPhone with ActionScript 3 projects. As you know, the Apple iPhone is one of the best selling consumer electronic devices of all time, and the fastest selling smartphone ever. The popularity of the device among developers and consumers created an explosion of over 85,000 applications that captured the attention of consumers around the world. Flash developers told us how eager they were to create apps for the App Store, so we sought a way to make it easy for our community to bring their knowledge and creative talents there. Learn how Adobe is working to bring Adobe AIR development out of the desktop and onto a mobile phone near you. How it all works We enabled this by using the Low Level Virtual Machine (LLVM) compiler infrastructure.
The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure Project. John Nack on Adobe: Sympathy for the Devil. Sympathy for the Devil In the last couple of years, it has become trendy to bash the Adobe Flash Player. I need to say a few things on that subject. First, let’s be very clear: I’m not on the Flash team. I don’t speak for them. I came to Adobe ten years ago to build an open standards (SVG)-based Web animation tool. Flash is flawed, but it has moved the world forward.Open standards are great, but they can be achingly slow to arrive.Talk of “what’s good for standards is bad for Adobe” is misinformed nonsense.Flash will innovate or die. Let’s be clear: It’s fine to say that Flash is flawed; it is. Macromedia was the only company that delivered truly ubiquitous (99% penetration) video playback.
All these years later, we still don’t have a standard, browser-native alternative, much less one that’s achieved widespread viewership. I don’t doubt that some video standard will eventually emerge & make its way into most if not all browsers. . – On Standards – Guess what, though? – On Mac vs. FITC Edmonton Slides : Building iPhone applications with Flash C. Labs - Slider: Flex Mobile Framework.