Internals of Packager for iPhone

Hello, just out of curiosity.
Does anyone of you know what exactly does the "Packager for iPhone" does?
At first, I thought that it was some kind of cross-compiler from swf bytecode to Obj-C/arm code; because of Apple Restrictions, and because of the long time it takes the pfi 'recompile' an swf.
However, after creating a really simple app (a Hello World), I see that it compiles to an .ipa of around 8MB. I've also developed native Obj-C apps and an application that does that would comfortably fit in around 200K. That makes me think that the pfi actually encapsulates the whole swf inside an Air Runtime that automatically starts up the app. That's more 'coherent' with what Adobe would do, since the pfi is actually part of Adobe Air, and because (I think), it would be easier (and safer) to program an Obj-C Air Runtime, than to create that kind of cross-compiler. If this is the case, I still don't get it why it takes so long to encapsulate the swf.
Anyway, I haven't found any documentation related to this, let me know what you think about this.

Yeah, great, thanks Adobe... you've just lost years worth of community comments and resource there!
Who thought that removing that forum could ever be a good idea?!
It could have stayed as a static 'read only' forum with this being the new place to add comments and threads.
Shocking really...
Please Adobe re-instate it. You're normally amazing but this truly sucks and is very surprising.

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Hi What`s up guys??
I Download the Packager for iPhone and i can`t used this ?
please help me and show me in picture how to use this.

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Is Packager for iPhone gone?

From http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/articles/ios_features_in_air26.html:
"The PFI (Packager for iPhone) utility is gone, and its functionality has been integrated into ADT. ADT can now be used to package AIR files, native desktop installers, Android applications, and iOS applications. I should also mention that iOS applications (IPA files) can be built and copied to iOS devices on Windows using ADT and iTunes."

From that link, it seems next version of the iOS packager is ready?

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Hi,
I was wondering: now that it's possible to select an Air SDK version in Flash CS6, would it also be possible to use Flash CS6 with the old 'packager for iPhone' that came with Flash CS5?
I know, I know, I should get rid of that old thing, but reality is that I used packager for iPhone to create one of my first apps and now I can't update to a newer version of Air. Apple doesn't allow that, because existing users wouldn't be able to update anymore.
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Too bad... I was hoping to kick my old CS5 installation out of the window...

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Since Packager for iPhone is an obsulete product now and everybody "should" use AIR 2.6, the Packager for iPhone forum disappered today and all links bring to the page saying: "It appears you're not allowed to view what you requested. You might contact your administrator if you think this is a mistake."
Come on guys, the old links to the specific forum threads should still work, I bookmarked so many links ralated to many problems "to read later" and now they are gone... Would be nice if there was some redirect to the same threads on the new forum if they were moved (I hope they aren't removed). So far we can only used "cached" in Google version...

Yeah, great, thanks Adobe... you've just lost years worth of community comments and resource there!
Who thought that removing that forum could ever be a good idea?!
It could have stayed as a static 'read only' forum with this being the new place to add comments and threads.
Shocking really...
Please Adobe re-instate it. You're normally amazing but this truly sucks and is very surprising.

Why is the Packager for iPhone guide for Flash CS5 and not Flash Builder?

Following this tutorial, I gave compiling an iPhone project via the command line a shot and found it very difficult. The commands are not clearly explained and have character errors (“ ” instead of " ", \ instead of /, etc.).
I've also downloaded the pdf that comes with the Packager for iPhone and tried to follow along, but the explanations are for developing in the Flash CS5 IDE...why is that? It seems that Flash Builder would be the logical development environment for developers and a dev guide...
Can anyone explain or perhaps direct me to an easier, more official tutorial on developing iPhone applications in Flash Builder? Thank you!

Because Flash CS5 users need more help than us Flex devs. jk
The "Packager for iPhone" was depreciated some time ago, so I imagine you are reading some old docs. Now (since FB 4.5), it's just another target platform in a Flex Mobile Project. Before then it was part of the ADT compiler which could be run in ANT (or a really long command line string), and before then it was actually the "packager for iPhone".
If you do not have FB 4.5 then maybe you can provide more info on the challenges your facing, and someone may be able to point you in the right direction.
You may also want to give this a read: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flex/mobileapps/WS064a3073e805330f6c6abf312e7545f65e-8000.html

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Hi,
It's great to see that Adobe is making updates for the iOS development platform.
However, I have an application in the appstore that I developed using the (old) pfi packager using Flash cs5.
Therefore I can't update the app using Air 2.6 or 2.7.
I wonder: what if I reinstall my mac from scratch, I need to reinstall pfi to create updates to my app.
Does anyone know where I can download the old pfi?
Or maybe someone downloaded the installer and is willing to send it to me?
I would hate to be unable to continue development of my "old" apps...
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Thanx for your quick respons Sanika.
Unfortunately the download-link doesn't work. It redirects to the new air-pages with no sign of a download link to the old files.
I know I should better move to air 2.7 (and believe me, I want to!), but 2 things are bothering me about air 2.7:
1) I am not able to upgrade my existing games due to the fact that some older devices aren't supported anymore. I have about 20.000 downloads allready so I can't ask all those people to download my app again when I release it under a different name. I just don't think people will like that. Especially when they have to pay for it again!
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I had the same issue with slow builds for Ad hoc and App Store builds. Before when I would compile, it would estimate 5 min to complete the precess, count down to 0 and then display 5 min remaining forever. It took me a while to realize it was still compiling and not just frozen. Anyway, I let it one evening and found out it took like an hour to publish.
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http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/packagerforiphone/

Let us hope that it will be added soon.
480x320 isn't bad, but its ugly if you know you look at it on a retina display.
Also, on android, you get nicely 800x480 without problems (but android probably doesn't use tricks, just plan resolution)
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