The appcelerator press releases in the past have mentioned that “Titanium supports applications developed using Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight” but I’m guessing the clarification of that currently is “if those technologies are installed separately”. The Titanium installer doesn’t appear to intall these. I’d quite like the option for it to install Flash runtimes like Chrome, but I certainly wouldn’t want it to include Silverlight and .Net runtimes in the installation by default too, that would be a large download.

I should add that my testing was done with Titanium’s “Bundled” installer type package option. I do not know what happens yet, whether Flash is included, with the “Network” option (but I’m guessing it isn’t).

I have been testing Titanium building Windows 7 and Windows Vista desktop applications over the last couple of days with the standard Titanium Developer release (v1.2.1) from the appcelerator site during this time.

I was not able to get Flash working. The reason is because the Titanium application installation builds do not include the Flash runtimes. I finally got it working on the target PC by installing the Safari browser and then the Flash plug-in via the Safari browser. Here’s what happened:

1. Titanium app with html and embedded swf file installed on Windows 7. Flash not working in Titanium app, despite Flash working in IE7 and Chrome on the same PC with the same html file.

2. Installed Safara browser. Flash still not working in Titanium app.

3. Used Safari to browse to page which had Flash, Safari then said missing plugin, and directed me to where I could download Flash. Safari browser now had Flash plugin working, and surprise surprise, the Titanium app’s Flash started working too.

This confirmed my original gut feel that Titanium was not shipping Flash with its installations. I certainly couldn’t find any equivalent of the gcswf32.dll Flash runtime that Chrome ships with its browser in the Titanium desktop application installation runtime folder.

So it looks like the Adobe Flash plugin (which is different from the Flash ActiveX which ships with IE and Windows7, and is different from the Flash runtime dll shipping with Chrome) has to be installed, for Flash to work in Titanium apps.

And unfortunately, unlike Google Chrome, Titanium does not currently install desktop apps with the Flash runtime included. But I’m hoping that Titanium might include this as an option in the future.

please help!