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iPhone App Dev - Adobe Flash CS 5 - When?

Mar 10, 2010 2:50AM PST

Anyone know when Flash CS 5 is coming, or maybe entering beta? I am anxious to try creating an iPhone app using it.

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Why bother?
Mar 10, 2010 11:28AM PST

The iPhone does not, and almost certainly will not, use Flash at all.

Same goes for the iPad.

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Adobe has annouced support for iPhone apps
Mar 11, 2010 9:31PM PST
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If the iPhone has no Flash Player,
Mar 12, 2010 9:23AM PST

then developing Flash apps for the iPhone, regardless of whether Adobe has an SDK to build app, is not really a viable proposition.

No Flash on the iPad either


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huh?
Mar 12, 2010 10:16AM PST

I think we may be talking about 2 different things?
I am referring to Adobe's Flash CS5 product with has an 'iphone packager' that allows you to build Native iPhone apps. I am not referring to running flash on the device.

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Oops, sorry, my bad
Mar 12, 2010 10:10PM PST

Confusing names.

But to answer the OP's question, there will be no public Beta of this product and Adobe shows nothing on their site, that I found, about a release date for the poduct.

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No Flash
Mar 19, 2010 7:10PM PDT

Steve Jobs hates flash. He says that it is inefficient code that will kill that batteries in his idevices. He is moving towards HTML5, and lots of sights are developing non flash versions for the iPad. Flash on an portable idevice - forget it.

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Read the entire thread
Mar 20, 2010 12:13AM PDT

this is not about Flash


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correct
Mar 20, 2010 6:41AM PDT

Correct, this is not about running flash ON the device, it is about using the flash builder / Actionscript language to build an app, then make it in to a native iPhone app (iPhone packager).

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I also note that there may be a problem
Mar 22, 2010 10:23AM PDT