Iphone with Flash apps?
Soon, flash developers will be able to develop iphone apps which can run natively on the iphone without
any browser call. This means that no wrapper like flash plugin or air plugin will be required.
Only Actionscript 3 based content is supported when developing content for the iphone. AS1 and 2 are not supported and there are no plans to make them work. Also as as there is no a flash interpreter or plugin that will be reading the iphone app, an externally loaded swf should not and cannot have any actionscript. Any actionscript will be ignored as there is no virtual machine to interpret the code.
We can take advantage of almost all as3 – flashplayer 10 apis and native iphone apis which include,
- Multitouch
- Screen orientation
- Saving images to photo library
- Accelerometer
- Geo-location
- Cut / copy / paste
We cannot take advantage or use the dock tray. Usage of 3 fonts, Helvetica, Times new roman and Courier New are all we have.
Ok to get all this going you will need
Flash Professional CS5 ( beta to be released later this year) for the development. Obviously with AS3 knowledge and if you have some experience on how to optimise your flash for mobile phone experience, it would be great!
Iphone developer subscription, for the testing and deploying.
Here is a reference link about the announcement at MAX2009
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/
Please excuse me if I am wrong for any of the above.
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