Adobe Opens iPhone to Flash Developers

Scott Ames · 10-06-2009, 09:12 AM

This could be big for IPhone developers.

Adobe Opens iPhone to Flash Developers

MAX Sneak Peek Shows New Export Capability from Adobe Flash Professional CS5 Beta
Adobe MAX
October 05, 2009 02:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time

LOS ANGELES--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--At Adobe MAX, the company's worldwide developer conference, Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that Adobe® Flash Professional CS5 will enable developers to create rich, interactive applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch. A public beta of Flash Professional CS5 is expected to be available later this year. In a sneak peek, during the MAX keynote presentation, Adobe demonstrated how developers can utilize Flash Professional CS5 to export applications for the iPhone, leveraging the same source code used to deliver applications across desktops and devices for Flash Platform runtimes – Adobe AIR™ and Flash Player 10. The new functionality opens iPhone development to millions of designers and developers who currently use Adobe’s popular Flash authoring tools.

Adobe Opens iPhone to Flash Developers

garyk1968 · 10-06-2009, 10:04 AM

Wow thats abit of a U-turn, it was only yesterday at the same show that flash on mobiles was being touted for everything *but* iphone with no confirmed release date (if at all) now 1 day on its arrived!

zapseo · 10-06-2009, 10:59 AM

This is HUGE news.
Consider that Flash is the technology underlying the multi-platform development environment of Adobe AIR.

Adobe is taking fairly square aim, it seems to me on brief consideration, of the dominance of Java.

While there still is a long way to go, considering Java's extremely rich set of libraries and enterprise dominance, it's definitely an interesting development.

But then, consider that Adobe and Apple are, in many ways, tied at the hip.

Apple stunned the world with the first home laser printer.

But who made it possible? Adobe. In fact, those first heftily-priced Apple LaserWriters paid out a cool $400 to Adobe for every one purchased.

In fact, Adobe's postscript could be seen as a predecessor to a platform-independent graphic description language prior to html/css -- and Jobs used postscript to run not only printers, but also the display of his NeXT computers.

Adobe is an amazing, and under-recognized, company.

And when I interviewed with them in 2001, were still a Mac shop. (I doubt that's changed.) They have offices in downtown San Jose -- which, as a citizen of San Jose, I'm grateful to addition to our Tax Base (though I confess, I don't know what sorts of agreements lured them downtown.) Though, to me, a hot Silicon Valley company in a high rise just seems wrong, LOL. (FYI: My interview was on the 13th floor. 13th???)

(Why didn't someone tell me they were offering 6 weeks of vacation, though? Oh well, too late now!)

Live JoyFully!

Judy

garyk1968 · 10-06-2009, 05:18 PM

The only stumbling block I see is the whole way of developing with flash cs4/5; timelines, scenes and transitions is completely alien to 99% of programmers who code using an event model with any other development language/tool. Great for the designers but hard for the coders. Now if they enable Flex to target iphone thats different!

10-06-2009, 09:12 AM	#1
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garyk1968 HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 319 Thanks: 36 Thanked 23 Times in 20 Posts	Re: Adobe Opens iPhone to Flash Developers Wow thats abit of a U-turn, it was only yesterday at the same show that flash on mobiles was being touted for everything but iphone with no confirmed release date (if at all) now 1 day on its arrived!
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10-06-2009, 10:59 AM	#3
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garyk1968 HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 319 Thanks: 36 Thanked 23 Times in 20 Posts	Re: Adobe Opens iPhone to Flash Developers The only stumbling block I see is the whole way of developing with flash cs4/5; timelines, scenes and transitions is completely alien to 99% of programmers who code using an event model with any other development language/tool. Great for the designers but hard for the coders. Now if they enable Flex to target iphone thats different!
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