Flash programmers can now bring their applications to Apple's iPhone

By A Bisht

Adobe Systems has announced on Monday that Flash programmers can now bring their applications to Apple's iPhone.

But the Flash player will not be in the form most people experience it, as a Web browser plug-in. Instead, the programmers will have to change their Flash applications into native iPhone applications using Adobe's Flash Professional CS5 Beta developer too. This will enable them to provide their programs as an Apple App Store download.

Flash Player 10.1 beta, due later this year and final form in the first half of 2010, has presence in all the other smartphones out there: Google Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Palm WebOS, and Nokia Symbian. But some work is till to be done to get it in Apple iPhone, because of Apple’s restrictive policies. So till then the indirect route will do. --------