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Asked: 2026-06-04T16:21:28+00:00

EDIT: See my answer I saw some interesting frameworks to build applications for mobile

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See my answer

I saw some interesting frameworks to build applications for mobile platforms like Android and iPhone with HTML and Javascript so you can use your current web-development skills without learning a new platform language. That’s very interesting because you can write just ONE application for many platforms. Very easy to maintain.

But, you cannot sell it in the App stores, so I’m wondering if it is possible to use an embedded webbrowser in the application that loads an external/included html file.

I have seen that it is possible to create Android and iPhone apps with flash, that’s is easy, so i want to create a simple ‘host’ application that only loads content and I can use it over and over again to distribute a new app.

So the question is, is it possible to create a simple app with flash that embeds a webbrowser to load a html file?

When it is possible, next question is, it possible to communicate with the embedded webbrowser? Also a question is, will Apple allow such application in it app store?

I hope my question is understandable.

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  1. Editorial Team

    After all this time i got the answer.

    Phonegap uses a WebView to display the HTML content. It is a compiled native App with embedded WebView.

    Apple accepts phonegap generated applications but it still not sure if it made it to the AppStore, it depends on what you doing with it. I think simple apps will made it. See also: http://www.phonegap.com/faq

    EDIT/UPDATE:
    I tried allot of tools/solutions to create crossplatform apps but all of these seem to do the same thing: It’s a executable for the specific platform with an embedded browser. None of them compiles HTML to native code.

    Flash (Builder) is something different, it requires AIR (can be compiled into the executable). When you using a WebView (only) with Flash, it is overkill because in fact you do not need AIR to display the HTML in a WebView. I think it is better to use phonegap to ‘compile’ the executable.

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