CS5 iPhone compilation?

April 18th, 2010 by Christian Leave a reply »

It looks like one of the features I was most looking forward to of Adbobe Flash CS5, namely it’s possibility to compile flash apps for the iPhone, is not going to work. The reason is, that Apple seems to have changed it’s license agreement, which disallows Adobe’s way of doing things

3.3.1 — Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++, and Objective-C may compile and directly link against the Documented APIs (e.g., Applications that link to Documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool are prohibited).

I can’t say how much that sucks. Would have been to good to be true. On the other hand, I still believe in the power of mankind, and that Adobe will find a way to succeed!

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