Flash for iPhone game frontend?
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- 2ndcrack
Would Flash be the best option for developing a menu-heavy frontend for a game for iPhone?
I know iPhone doesn't support Flash directly this would be for authoring the frontend.
- acescence0
so you'd author the front end in flash, and it would work on the iPhone how exactly?
- dbloc0
flash would be the best thing for the iphone, but this whole app store thing wouldn't make any money because flash apps would take over.
- 2ndcrack0
'so you'd author the front end in flash, and it would work on the iPhone how exactly?'
Via some kind of exporter?
I need to have an answer prepared for tomorrow as to how to produce a frontend menu for iPhone. This is new territory top me as I've previously authored console game frontends in Flash which have then been implemented by the coding team using translators.
- dbloc0
can't be done in flash
- 2ndcrack0
List of requirements from EA Montreal for a UI designer;
Desirable software knowledge: one or more of:
-Macromedia Flash (highly desirable);
-Adobe Photoshop;
-Adobe Illustrator;
-Basic knowledge of Microsoft Visio an asset.https://jobs.ea.com/jobs/viewjob…
If not Flash what would be the equivalent way to develop a frontend for iPhone?
- ifeltdave0
iphone apps are programmed in their own proprietary language. you may be able to do a mockup of an app / interface using flash, but ultimately I think such a prototype would serve as a guide for a dev team who would actually make the app iphone usable. In no way can a flash file export / be converted to an iphone app.
Here is a link to some stuff on programming in the iphone language:
- acescence0
you have to use objective-c to build the UI
- raf0
- dbloc0
Steve Jobs Hates Flash
- 2ndcrack0
Thanks for replies everyone.
- 2ndcrack0
So UIKit is the way?
- Pupsipu0
http://gamehaxe.com/ still very deep in alpha
- skelly_b0
Apps are built and compiled using Apple's XCode. The language is Objective-C. UIKit is just one of the frameworks you use in the development process. You can layout some of the visual elements of the UI using Apple's Interface Builder, one of the tools installed with SDK.
- showpony0
some iphone engines can read flash timelines and libraries... not sure if that helps with what you're doing though...
- utopian0
iPhone does not and will not support Flash
- applepirate0
all you fucktardsthat cant program your way out of flash to make a button work quit responding to this thread....
all you chumps that made a flash template work and think you know a god damn thing go away...
unless you have programmed for the iPhone SDK leave this thread...
unless you have made a app for the app store leave this thread....
the reason that flash does not work on the iPhone is that the flash player runs the battery on your iphone to a 1% charge in 5 minutes flat.
flash will be on the iPhone when the flash player starts to dump memory intensive proccessing.
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- version30
hands applepirate a cookie (i think his blood sugar is low)
- fusionpixel0
Do it with Javascript
- dibec0
applepirate is right. Flash is a notorious system hog.