A developer has successfully gotten a mobile version of Adobe’s (NASDAQ:ADBE) Flash technology working on the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad and iPhone.
In order to make use of the newly hacked-up version of Flash for the iPad, you’ll have to jailbreak your device. The version of Flash, called “Frash,” for the iPad is not without issue. Flash was designed to be used by a keyboard and a mouse, not touch-based inputs, but the move gives hope to developers that they can force Apple’s hand by proving that the technology works.
Frash works with Safari for the iPad through a compatibility layer. The program is a port of an official Adobe Flash plug-in that’s already available for Android devices. PC World says that the performance is “pretty decent.” Frash currently runs on the iPad, but the developer plans to port the application for the iPhone. For performance reasons, the app would likely only work on the iPhone 3GS and the iPhone 4.
The embedded video said that Frash will be released to the public when it’s stable and that support for video and keyboard usage are in development. The developer noted that for video to work it would “require major reverse engineering of the video decoding frameworks on the iPhone.”
