20 Responses to “SOURCE to 4 Flash iPhone Apps”

1. #  iBrent October 5, 2009 2:28 PM

   Sweet! Thanks for sharing this. In spite of what people may think, it is a good thing that the million+ Flash devs are now iPhone devs, thanks to Adobe. =D  

2. #  scoobusReadus October 5, 2009 3:21 PM

   Yes - that is sweet. I see an .ipa file in the Circles app. Any way i can provision this to my iphone? Tells me it's unsigned... so I'm suspecting I can't adhoc this, without the iPhone Dev subscription?
   
   Thanks! Scott  

3. #  Anonymous October 5, 2009 3:33 PM

   Thanks Ted. Picaso has nothing on you. ;)
   
   Judah  

4. #  Doil Lee October 5, 2009 3:37 PM

   What about Flex to iPhone? Will Flex 4 support iPhone export?  

5. #  Chuck October 5, 2009 4:02 PM

   Impressive! How did you have the time to write this post today? MAX is going great and smoothly so far.  

6. #  Leviathan2040 October 5, 2009 4:23 PM

   Thanks for the source, it is interesting to understand how it actually happens. I have a couple of questions:
   
   1) why very simple code like the Circles one generate such huge compiled app considering that there is no runtime or framework attached to it? (I mean 3.7 MB to draw four circles is a lot)
   
   2) Comparing the Circles example (performing at around 3 frames per second) and CirclesGLES (at least 30 FPS and more) example code seems clear that in order to obtain a decent performance the content has to be mostly static (not regenerated/modified at runtime) and with the CacheAsSurface flag turned on, this reduce a lot the kind of applications that can be made I guess.  

7. #  Ted Patrick October 5, 2009 8:54 PM

   These samples were built about 16 builds back and much has changed. Binary size is an issue the team is working on. The swf is translated to LLVM and then grafted with the flash api implemented in native code.
   
   Ted ;)  

8. #  Eric Belair October 6, 2009 8:02 AM

   FingerPaint won't compile in Flex Builder - cannot find flash.events.TouchEvent. Is a specific SDK or Builder version needed?  

9. #  Kalyan October 6, 2009 8:13 PM

   This is going to be great, Ted. Thank you!  

10. #  James October 7, 2009 5:25 AM

    There are so many questions to ask about all this, but could you give some info about this...
    flash.media.MediaLibrary
    How's that going to work? What's that going to do when it's running in the standard flash player?
    
    I was interested in what sort of persistent storage options a Flash iPhone app would have, but I guess that would be the same as any other iPhone app? I haven't done any standard iPhone dev, so I'm not sure what I could expect??  

11. #  Jompa October 8, 2009 2:11 AM

    Excellent!
    Did you get copies of the CS5 beta to compile this? Looking forward to start playing around with the touch and accelerometer events :)  

12. #  Ted Patrick October 8, 2009 8:42 AM

    Flex on Mobile (iPhone) was demoed in MAX Sneaks by Ely Greenfield.  

13. #  Ted Patrick October 8, 2009 8:46 AM

    The builder project requires a very customized SDK to compile. You must have the airglobal.swc configured and there is much work to get this all configured. Early work was done using compilation scripts but this will be automated within Flash Pro and Flash Builder Pro products.
    
    We used the SDK to get compilation working but ipa export will not be in the SDK when shipping and will be within Flash Pro and Flash Builder( not sure on timeline).
    
    That is all I know! :)
    
    Ted :)  

14. #  Ted Patrick October 8, 2009 8:47 AM

    flash.media.MediaLibrary allows you to write an BitmapData object into the iPhone Photos app. So you can generate images in you app and push them into Photos on device.
    
    Ted :)  

15. #  Ted Patrick October 8, 2009 8:49 AM

    The goal was for all API's to map to AIR 2.0 or Flash 10.1 APIS. flash.events.TouchEvent was added in both as a native API event type for multi-touch support.
    
    Ted :)  

16. #  turbidity October 9, 2009 4:14 PM

    Hi Ted! Thanks for posting this code. I've got a question about something going on in the FlashWrap application. In the touchBegin function, you're using square bracket notation to turn the touchBegin function into an object and then add properties onto it.
    What's going on there? Is this something specific to iPhone dev, or is this some secret ActionScript mojo I am ignorant of?
    
    Here's the code in question (from FlashWrap.as):
    public function touchBegin( event:TouchEvent ):void
    { this.touchBegin[ event.touchPointID ] = {}; this.touchBegin[ event.touchPointID ].x = event.stageX; this.touchBegin[ event.touchPointID ].x = event.stageY;
    this.hit( event.stageX , event.stageY );
    }  

17. #  Ted Patrick October 19, 2009 1:46 PM

    a Function is an Object so you can put stuff into it just like normal objects. It is ECMA standard but not widely used. The only advantage is that it save 1 Object in your app. This works with all AS3 code.
    
    Ted :)  

18. #  Ferenc November 4, 2009 2:41 AM

    Where can I download the SDK for this ? :-)  

19. #  r4 card November 10, 2009 11:01 PM

    I am waiting for this mobile I am very fond of new phones I loved to use this multimedia and high definition phone these are the My favorite gadgets.They give you very nice performance with sound as well as picture quality and other multimedia  

20. #  Anonymous January 5, 2010 6:42 AM

    Hi Thanks for this.
    
    Bu can you provide me the links of cs5 availbale or not?