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user2682102
user2682102

Reputation: 25

playing flash files in iphone

we have a client application that plays flash files (.swf). This works on all other mobiles except iphone as Apple doesn't support Flash. Is there any workaround to play these flash files in iphone using HTML5 or any other tweaking? Since there aren't any answers to this question recently, I am submiting this question.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2875

Answers (2)

Durai Amuthan.H
Durai Amuthan.H

Reputation: 32270

  • using external browser:

    There is a browser called photon which plays flash videos and games on ios devices without any need to jailbreak open this browser with the web url using custom app url scheme

  • using html5 conversion tools:

    Use google swiffy or Adobe wallaby and open the HTML page using uiwebview

  • native app

    Using Adobe air sdk you could play local flash videos natively

Click here to see detailed answer that compares these approaches and too see main links to these approaches

Upvotes: 0

user149341
user149341

Reputation:

No, there is no way to display a Flash file (SWF) in the iPhone browser.

If you have access to the source of the Flash files in the application, it may be possible to export them as HTML5 from the Flash builder. There's no way to do this conversion just from the SWFs, though.

As an aside: your application won't work on many newer smartphones either - under Android, Adobe has dropped support for the Flash plugin on current versions of the OS, and it's not supported at all on current versions of Windows Mobile or Blackberry OS. Sites which depend on Flash content are effectively unusable on mobile at this point.

Upvotes: 1

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