Now you might think that only Flash CS5 can do this and only with Flash and action script but thats not true. You can actually cross compile full Flex apps which is really great stuff.
It's a bit of a pain to get started setting up the certificates and working out the options to set this up but once its done it really works.
We have a Flex 4 app that heavily used and using the cross compiler I was able to deploy this to the iPhone. Now we have to make modification to the app of course as it requires pressing buttons on a keyboard but these are minor changes that are required for any mobile device.
SO that means as of now we have a flex app that runs in the browser, in Air ( across OS's ), on Andriod devices and now on the iPhone.
I intend to do a few more follow up posts on how I set this up.
While I've been using Pure ActionScript to write apps for iPhone and Android (using Flash Builder, and command line tools, and more recently free AXDT) - but I think Flex on a mobile device is a TERRIBLE idea.
ReplyDeleteMy own Pure Actionscript datagrids and UI element components are so much more memory efficient, faster, and extendible than any of Adobe's bloated and monolithic Flex monstrosities.
That's pretty cool, what is the performance like?
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