Adobe (San Jose, Calif.), which is holding its international developer conference this week in Los Angeles, also said that Flash is being compiled to run natively in applications on Applie Inc.'s iPhone. However, iPhone still lacks support for Flash.

Lack of Flash support has been a frequent criticism of iPhone. Adobe has said it needs cooperation from Apple to bring Flash to the popular smartphone. Because the Apple iPhone software developer kit license terms do not allow runtime interpreted code, Adobe is not able to deliver Flash in Safari on the iPhone without support from Apple, the company said.

According to Adobe, Flash Professional CS5 will enable developers to create applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Applications for the iPhone built with Adobe Flash Professional CS5 do not include any runtime interpreted code, Adobe said. A public beta of Flash Professional CS5 is expected to be available later this year, the company said.

Adobe said the collaboration with RIM is expected to bring the full Flash player browser runtime to Blackberry smartphones. Flash Player 10.1 support is expected to be available for a series of mobile platforms including Google Android, Blackberry, Symbian, Palm webOS and Windows Mobile, Adobe said.

With the addition of the Blackberry platform, Flash will now be available on 19 of the top 20 smartphones, with iPhone being the only holdout, according to Adobe.

Adobe also rolled out Flash player 10.1, which provides a consistent runtime across screens, and is supported by close to 50 participants in the Open Screen Project, according to the company.

Adobe and partner Nokia also announced more than 35 funded multi-screen applications as part of the joint Open Screen Project Fund, a $10 million initiative launched by the companies in February to fund applications using the Flash platform.