Adobe Flash Professional CS5 to enable developers to build apps for Apple iPhone and iPod touch

Monday, October 5, 2009 · 3:16 pm · 26 Comments

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.

At MAX 2009, Adobe showed a number of applications and games for iPhone that have been built using a prerelease version of Flash Professional CS5. Some of these applications are available now for you to download from the Apple App Store.

More info and a demo video of applications from the Apple App Store built using Flash technology, here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Lynn W." for the heads up.]

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Planar

Monday, October 5, 2009 - 9:09 pm · Reply

Interesting discussions here

It builds an app with an ActionScript “virtual machine” pre-coded and embedded into the app along with your Flash masterpiece. It basically creates a custom Flash player that can only play your Flash creation.

The app does not get converted into Obj-C or otherwise allow for much in the way of customization or traditional programming in Xcode. You do everything in Flash and then export it out. Adobe prebuilt the virtual machine/player and then they just combine it with your Flash design work.

So, is it useful? Thats a matter of opinion. Sometimes, it feels like we are going backwards with computer science. This feels like one of those times.

Adobe: please give it a rest already

jocknerd

Monday, October 5, 2009 - 9:23 pm · Reply

Sounds like Adobe has taken their AIR environment and ported it to work on the iPhone. Probably wasn’t difficult since it was already running on OS X.

cro-magnon

Monday, October 5, 2009 - 9:54 pm · Reply

It’s already used to create iPhone Apps. Adobe is just drawing attention to it now. Again, there are already apps in the App Store built with this technology.

I hate Apple and I hope they die. They make crappy, bloated, overpriced software. I hate them.

Spark

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 - 3:43 am · Reply

Last comment on this from me:
1. I’m not “on the Flash train”. I just know how to get things accomplished in that environment, whereas I don’t fully comprehend other methods.
2. I am no programmer, and thus, while being aware of the primary programming languages used, do not know the nuances of each. Programming is not how I earn a living.
3. I earn a living by delivering a finished advertising and communication products to clients—usually of a technical nature. At times, this includes animations and presentations utilizing Flash.
4. If Flash CS5 enables me to produce a deliverable playable on the iPhone and other smartphones, it could provide a useful and interesting channel.
5. These Flash apps don’t seem to harm the iPhone or their users. They don’t hog bandwidth because they are not online, and I’ve seen no evidence they have a detrimental effect on normal iPhone usage.

So, while I understand the hatred for Flash on the web, and the bad blood with Adobe (I share the traditional complaints), I’m finding it hard to find the downside of this application of Flash to develop content for an iPhone app. If I am not ready to jump into full fledged iPhone app development because programming is not a core competency, yet I have some experience in Flash that can be leveraged into generating a presentation (for example) that can be viewed on an iPhone, where is the harm? Better yet, what is the alternative?

Tom

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 - 7:14 am · Reply

If Adobe spent some time optimising their “suite” of applications it would make a nice change – it seems rather than do that they’re hell bent on cashing in on the next big thing.

Flash runs like a dog on all my Macs – it would be nice if you fixed THAT adobe!

GeneralG

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 - 11:38 am · Reply

@ Spark

good point – programming is not your core competency – that’s honest.

Then why are you hell bent on making a software app? Why not focus on your core competency

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