Adobe Announces Support for Creating Stand-Alone Flash iPhone Apps — But Flash for Mobile Safari Still a Work in Progress
At its developer’s conference today Adobe announced that the next version of Adobe Flash (Flash Professional CS5) will include support for creating stand-alone applications for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch.
In discussing the announcement on his blog, Mike Chambers, Principal Product Manager for developer relations for Flash at Adobe said, “One thing I want to stress is that this is for standalone applications, and is not the Flash Player for mobile Safari (which is something we continue to work on).”
Apple will only allow Flash on mobile Safari if Adobe can improve the security of the ubiquitous player.
Chambers said the CS5 product will allow developers to create Flash-based apps which will then be converted to Apple’s native iPhone app format.
The Adobe manager said there were several apps already in the iTunes App Store that were built with Flash. He mentioned the following as examples: Roach Game; Just Letters; Chroma Circuit; Fickleblox; Red Hood; and Trading Stuff.
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