Flash huge on mobile
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dude iOS packager was discontinued because of Apple.. it has cought up a lot with AIR for Android right now..
Yes.. UI controls are not implemented because in part it gives you complete freedom to build your own things however you want.. Flex Hero will have support for a lot of that stuff for hardcore devs who don't care so much about appearance and want to just build native looking UI controls. Flash community will build UI controls for touch and list view and all that stuff (it's already happening)..
There is web view in AIR right now.. it's called StageWebView class and you can open HTML5 content in it. Download AIR 2.5, download updates to Flash CS5..
You have not been informed properly. Corona is a joke. LUA based framework who can't do half the crap. Titanium Appcelerator is something that AIR should be striving for in terms of Flex framework but I like the fact that Flash CS5 and CS5.5 will allow you to build your own controls instead of doing generic default ones..
There is definitely a huge benefit having native control UI support but Flash is for creatives, Flex is the one you might want to look at and Flex Hero and new Flash Builder 4.5 will be for you.
Don't forget, mobile development as a whole is still very new.. even Titanium Appcelerator, PhoneGap, Corona as well as Jquery Mobile, Sencha or whatever are all very buggy and have their own issues or are in alpha/beta stages.
- btw.. don't get me wrong.. it's Flash/AIR is not perfect right now but a lot of things are happening and improving.Boz