Flash for iPhone
OK, by now you've probably heard about Flash for iPhone - Adobe announced last week that developers will be able to create content for mobile devices that work on the new Flash Player 10.1. They further announced (with one of the funniest conference videos ever) that you'll be able to deploy Flash presentations to the iPhone by compiling to the LLVM (Low Level Virtual Machine) and then distributing apps the same way Objective C developers do - that is, by getting the app approved and distributed by Apple.Also noteworthy - the Flex Mobile SDK (code named Slider, since it's a smaller sort of hamburger) is currently in development. Ely Greenfield did a great session where he showed us the sort of code that will be possible. Flex developers will take to it like a duck to water. (Ely also did a less detailed demo at the sneak peeks presentation while wearing a weird Princess Leia hairdo, which Mark Hamill (who was on stage, don't ask) called a "hair-don't).
Slider will use the same compiler for iPhone as Flash CS5, but alot of the implications of designing multiscreen apps for mobile will be handled out of the box. Look for a possible beta mid-year 2010, according to an Adobe source (no promises on specific dates though).
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