Adobe AIR and iPhone - how it works?

Question

Anyone knows how the Adobe AIR application are converted to iPhone apps? I see two ways - either the Adobe AIR virtual machine mus be part of every application or they must conv

Answer 1

taken from adobe website: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/articles/air3-install-and-deployment-options.edu.html

Note that the captive runtime is the only option that is available when using AIR to target iOS. Since iOS does not support a shared runtime model, the captive model remains the only option on this platform.

Anyone using the captive runtime should be aware that it has two downsides:

Increased application size. Since an entire copy of the runtime is included in your application, the size of the application package is necessarily increased.

Increased security burden.