Hello,

I am curious if anybody has tried to create an app using Flash CS5 yet and would like to share his experiences.
I created a few apps using corona and everything worked well but for throwing together a quick prototype Flash CS5 might save some time.
What do you think?

Patrick.

And it might help out where corona is missing features right now, e.g. masking.

I tried to port a flash game using the Flash CS5 packager and despite attempting numerous optimisation tips from various websites, I was unable to get the game playable on an iPhone 3G. It was just about bearable with iPhone 4 but a different league still from the performance when created in Corona. I have therefore given up any thoughts of using Flash to create Iphone games. I do however find it useful to lay out graphics and get their co-ordinates and occasionally for quick prototypes. The one thing it did have in its favour is that the functionality pretty much ported perfectly.

Thanks for your answer.
At the moment I often create a prototype of my apps in Flash first so I can try out different things quickly and my clients can watch it online.
When everything is OK I port it over to Corona.

Yeah it works well for that and you have the bonus of a flash version of your game too if you so wish.

I am really enjoying developing with Corona

Flash is only good enough for simple stuff. Anything decent, you better stick to Corona for true open GL accelerated.

I tried to test it for my Siren Ying Yang game. Omg, it was slow like a snail. Haha. I turned off all glows, alphas, transparencies but still slowwww.

I have to say, Adobe is quite retarded in visioning the future. Corona could have been what iPHone packager is about, if....they listend to the founder of Corona when they still work there.

However, wait when CS5's Alchemy thing works out, maybe they can get C compiled code directly to iPhone binary. But then that is pointless because, I could just code in Objective C...

I spent some hours to do some tests and have to agree that you can't use flash on the ipad because of the extremely slow performance.

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