If you’ve got Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Premium or Master Collection installed on your system, you may have noticed the updater has fired up to let you know something is new. The company today released updates to Adobe Flash Builder and AIR to enable the promised functionality for designing iOS and BlackBerry PlayBook apps in addition to Android.

Adobe has announced the immediate availability of two software updates for Creative Suite 5.5 Design Premium and Master Collection in the form of Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 and AIR for Apple iOS Support (FB), which update the Flex framework to add development tools for the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and BlackBerry PlayBook. These tools already enabled Android development when they were released in April, and now give developers the ability to quickly build and distribute apps to the three major mobile markets -- App Store, Android Market and BlackBerry App World.

The company’s blog demonstrates how this “one tool, one framework, one codebase” strategy can work for developers using Flash Builder and Flex, with Flash Platform evangelist Serge Jespers shows off an app developed for different devices. The company has also posted a handful of existing apps that tap into their Flex tools, including Netflix Queue Manager and Muni Tracker.

Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 Standard can be purchased as a standalone package for $249 ($699 for Premium version, or $49 for upgrade) and is included in both Creative Suite 5.5 Web Premium and Master Collection bundles. The combined software updates for existing users clock in at 469.8MB and are available now from the Adobe Updater tool.

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