From SWF to AIR to iOS application

Question

I have existing Flash application, which compiles to SWF and runs on web. I\'m looking at converting that application to work on mobile devices such as iPhone/iPad.

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Answer 1

There are a few ways to achieve this:

1. You can download Adobe AIR SDK, and follow their help or this tutorial. This method would be a bit tedious if you are not comfortable with command line, but it is perhaps the most powerful option because you get to tweak and control a lot of options.

2. If you have the FLA file, the latest version of Flash CS6 should provide you the means to create IOS IPA file more effortlessly. If you are a Windows user, you would need to get the p12 file as well as mobile provision file. Adobe has documentations on how to do that without a Mac. Eventually when your IPA is ripe for AppStore, you would need a Mac.

Keep in mind that the user experience of an SWF would not right away translate well for iOS. For example, the size of buttons, the affordance of interactive user controls, and most importantly, mouseover events could sometimes adversely impact the experience of a mobile app.

But those problems have nothing to do with SWF, as I have seen similar issues with other HTML-based web apps too.

Good luck, I would say writing Flash and it runs everywhere including iPhone/iPad is truly an amazing thing that most people don't know.