iSWiFTER is another Flash-to-iOS app featuring video and games
Currently free for a limited time, iSWiFTER is yet another contender in a growing category of what I'd call "service" apps which allow you to play Flash content on your iOS device. While Skyfire was iPhone compatible, iSWiFTER is iPad-only. How does it work? Just barely.
This is not designed for accessing the rich universe of creamy Flash content. This is a list of 15 games or videos from around the web. Game interaction is primarily poke-based, as there's no multi-touch or swipe behavior support. Not really, anyway, as the lag from the transcoding service makes for poor response time. Games are "mostly playable" depending on this lag. They are presented in a smaller window inside a border, likely to spare bandwidth. Still, audio can get choppy. If you absolutely must play the less than dozen games available and all you have is your iPad, then here's your app.
Video was an even less useful experience. The app includes TED content, but there's already an app for that. One video (a YouTube clip, no less) refused to play, and another site required scrolling. Well, if you ever remote-controlled a computer on a slow connection you may guess what happens when you "scroll" via remote -- the page flies and you're nowhere you wanted to be. Finessing the scrollbar before even getting to the video is no way to use your iPad, son. I also got a big screen of static at one point.
For free I'd say iSWiFTER may provide you with a few grins from poking around some very simplistic games. But it's more of the same from these apps, a clunky tech demo that ultimately reminds us there's no Flash on iOS, for better or worse.
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