This is a pretty exciting time to be a Flash developer! Today at MAX 2009, Adobe gave a sneak peak of Flash CS5’s capabilities to port Flash applications into iPhone applications.
This gives millions of Flash developers the chance to distribute their applications and games through Apple’s App Store; not to mention that Apple is getting all of these people added to their already huge list of developers overnight.
This is a very smart move from both Adobe and Apple. In my opinion, Adobe actually needed something like this to keep developers from moving to other technologies and platforms, and Apple is getting all these new developers that come from a long lasting and well established community who have been working on the Flash platform for years.
Technically speaking, my guess is that Adobe already has a flash player running on the iphone, but since they cannot distribute it as a browser plug-in, they instead chose to give developers the option to wrap their SWF applications into this Flash Player for iphone. This is pretty much how projectors work actually. But that’s just my guess, of course.
Be sure to checkout the video here:
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