Adobe announced today that it would resume development of the Packager for iPhone, a feature of Flash Professional CS5 that lets developers export their Flash projects to iPhone apps and also to publish them to the App store.
It also states that in addition to renewing a commitment to the iPhone platform,
All in all, this is more great news for all mobile developers. Having Flash as a single point of development with deployment options to web, AIR, and iOS, will accelerate innovation in the mobile sector in the coming months. It will also lead to consistency in applications across platforms, which is a big help for companies when making branding decisions.
The iPhone has always been marketed as a breakthrough Internet device, in spite of two limitations considered by some people to be significant — the iPhone’s browser, Mobile Safari, has never supported Java or Flash. Thing are going to change soon.
The browser already supports Java and flash. Now they have to find something else to argue about.