Smokescreen Brings Flash Content To Your iPhone OS Device

on 05/30/2010 10:40 PDT

Good news and bad news folks. The good news is that a preview release of Smokescreen has surfaced, and it promises to enable Flash content to play on Apple’s iPhone OS devices, thanks to a combination of JavaScript and magic (we’re joking). The bad news is that while it seems to work fine with irritating animated banner ads, more alluring Flash content such as videos and games are slow and laggy. Fortunately it’s a good step in the right direction, and the code is going open-source soon, so hopefully we’ll see some major development on this. Check out a video of it in action after the jump.

Smokescreen – iPad demo #1 from Chris @ RevShockAds on Vimeo.

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iOS was once upon a time called iPhone OS, or "operating system", which is the software that provides all the basic device functionality and is the interface between the hardware and applications. iOS was introduced with the iPhone on January 9 2007, and it was originally not intended to be programmable by third parties. Steve Jobs had envisioned that developers could create Web Apps that would run in the browser. This changed less than one year after when the iPhone SDK (software development kit) was introduced in October 2007. Today, hundreds of thousands of apps have been created for this platform. iPhone OS became iOS on June 2010. Interestingly, both iPhone and iOS were former trademarks of Cisco, that Apple now uses under a license.

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