Al Hilwa, an analyst at IDC, said that the current installed iOS apps written with Adobe software, and those being written with the 4.5 update, will run "exactly the same" on an iPhone or iPad as they would on an Android phone.

Some customizations of apps to meet Apple's standards for menus and fonts and colors could still be required for the installed iOS apps, Hilwa added.

One new feature in the Adobe updates should be of interest to -based developers, in that developers will be able to use Flash Builder 4.5 to build Flex mobile apps, Gruber said. Flex is an objected-oriented framework more widely used in enterprise settings than Action Script, Gruber said.

Aside from the ability to build mobile apps across several platforms, the Flash Builder 4.5 tool includes some improvements to the way developers also build -based apps. Those include templates of code based on best practices that can be dropped into browser based apps and other changes to enhance flexibility of the tool, Gruber said.