iPhone Dev Agreement Bans Adobe's Flash-to-iPhone Compiler
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 8th Apr 2010 22:38 UTC
Apple John Gruber has found out that cross-compilers are no longer allowed in iPhone OS 4.0. "My reading of this new language is that cross-compilers, such as the Flash-to-iPhone compiler in Adobe's upcoming Flash Professional CS5 release, are prohibited. This also bans apps compiled using MonoTouch - a tool that compiles C# and .NET apps to the iPhone. It's unclear what this means for tools like Titanium and PhoneGap, which let developers write JavaScript code that runs in WebKit inside a native iPhone app wrapper. They might be OK."
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Battery
by huwnet on Fri 9th Apr 2010 08:35 UTC
huwnet
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2006-11-12

To what extent is battery life affected by these apps written using the tools from Mono or Adobe? I wonder if ensuring optimum battery life might be another reason for this?

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RE: Battery
by fatjoe on Fri 9th Apr 2010 09:34 in reply to "Battery"
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2010-01-12

Bullshit,

MonoTouch is not JIT, it is compiled to ARM binary. Given the current state of ARM C compilers, and the inefficiency of ObjC message hub, and the built-in SIMD support of Mono, I think the mono approach is actually more effective.

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