Frash: A jailbreak solution to iPad’s lack of Flash

One of the compromises of using the iPad is the tablet’s massive lack of Flash. That means you’re missing out on hundreds of Strong Bad emails, hours of Desktop Tower Defense, and several minutes of FrontierVille.

But Flash is being held away from the tablet because of a feud between Apple and Adobe, and other political spats. Which means if, say, an enterprising group of hackers could finagle the iPad and shove some files onto its hard drive, it could technically run Flash.

And that’s exactly what’s happened. Comex, the brains behind Spirit Jailbreak, has revealed a video of ‘Frash’, a port of the Android’s Flash runtime that will make Flash videos work naively in the MobileSafari browser, as if Steve Jobs and Adobe were best of friends.

While the video, shot with an iPhone 4 and edited in iMovie no less, shows off Flash games like Trogdor, Kitten Cannon, and Alien Hominid. All the games are designed around the keyboard and mouse, so won’t actually work very well or at all on iPad.

Videos, however, like a Strong Bad email, work great and even resize and move without exploding.

Frash will be released once Comex has a stable build ready. It'll be exclusive to users with jailbroken iPads though, the App Store wouldn't touch this with a ten foot bargepole.

It currently only runs on iPad, but is planned for other iDevices. Technical difficulties will keep it on 3GS and higher gadgets though, so dreams of Strong Bad on a first generation iPod will remain just that - dreams.

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