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Posts tagged adobe, iphone in 2009

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This is very interesting technology. But that Adobe would go to this length suggests that they suspect that Apple will never allow the Flash runtime on the iPhone.

— John Gruber

# 6th October 2009, 7:33 am / adobe, apple, flash, iphone, john-gruber

Developing for the Apple iPhone using Flash. A brilliant feat of engineering: Adobe worked around Apple’s “no runtime allowed” rules by writing a compiler front end for LLVM that compiles ActionScript 3 to ARM assembly code, and apparently ported the regular Flash drawing APIs as well.

# 5th October 2009, 9:15 pm / actionscript, adobe, compilers, flash, hacking, iphone, llvm

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