O’Reilly: Inside RIA

Adobe, a long time player in rich internet applications wants be an active participant on mobile platforms, including the iPhone. Adobe engineers put their minds together and delivered a solution to work around the problem of the iPhone browser's lack of support for Flash. If the iPhone Safari browser will not support the Flash player, let's use the Flash tools to compile a native iPhone application (ipa) which lives directly on the device. This initiative now gives the opportunity for ActionScript developers to develop applications for the wonderful iPhone and iPod Touch devices.

Note that every image with a blue border in this article launches a swf example. Read its caption to understand how it works. One of the most interesting sessions at MAX 2008 was Creating a Next-Generation Desktop News Reader by...