Porting Flash Lite content to the Apple Iphone:b.Tween

Published by vivek on July 2, 2008 in Flash lite and Mobile. 0 Comments

Via Thomas Joos , This week they released Rock Werchter Mobile Guide, a music festival application in Adobe Flash lite. “The cool part is that for the first time in the mobile history we ported our Flash Lite Project to the iphone/ipod touch, taking advantage of all the oppurtunities the iphone UI has to offer. He used b.Tween: an eyeGT FRAMEWORK technology to make this work :) Few advantages:

  • The code that uses the framework is compiled to machine code, that means several orders of magnitude faster than the ActionScript equivalent (AS3 in Flash 9 is JIT compiled but we are talking about mobile platforms here where there is no AS3 and no JIT compilation, for the moment at least)
  • Parts of the code that are unused are left out the final compiled application, so size and time to transmit/load are reduced to the minimum
  • Native code can access ANY feature of the hosting platform: wants Bluetooth? Wants to process received SMS? Wants to read the phone book? All possible from native applications not so from a player based one.

Cool, read the complete process to how to Port Flash Lite content to Apple Iphone.

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Excellant information as collected from Krvishal, i2fly

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Conversation with Raphael Grignani of Nokia Design about Homegrown

Published by vivek on July 2, 2008 in Design, Mobile and User experience. 0 Comments

Nokia homegrown

An Intresting interview with Raphael Grignani of Nokia Design about Homegrown project. Must read to know about new design thinking on sustainability.

Rachel Hinman, mobile design strategist at Adaptive Path, has conducted an interview with Raphael Grignani of Nokia Design about “Homegrown”, a long term research project looking at how Nokia can help people make more sustainable choices.

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“With Remade, Andrew Gartrell (Homegrown project lead and Remade father) pushed design beyond skin deep aesthetics. He considered covers, key mats, and displays but also engine, connectors, and other components. We discovered that a typical mobile phone contains around 44 of the 117 elements currently known to science. Andrew’s approach was to de-construct everything and rebuild it from scratch using recycled materials and sustainable technologies — from the inside out.

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50% of a phone’s energy demand is backlighting.

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Energy saving graphics “concept”

Another aspect of Homegrown that is really interesting is the work we did around prototyping. Andrew designed in CAD over 100 versions of Remade and prototyped 36 — which could be considered obsessive — but it was through that constant consideration and iteration that we were able to arrive at something that was great.

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At present, phone chargers waste 300mW of standby power when left unplugged.

Prototyping allowed us to confront our designs — asking ourselves, “Is this the best we can do? What can we reduce? Have we found the essence? What can we make better or what can we make differently?” We questioned every bit of the concepts throughout the prototyping process. Now we can explain every bit of the design; we can rationalize every aspect of it.”

Read interview

Read press release “Nokia”

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89 Nokia Devices Support Adobe Flash Lite

Published by vivek on July 1, 2008 in Flash lite and Mobile. 0 Comments

Via Bill, Counting just increasing on and now 89 Nokia Devices support Flash lite :) including new Nokia Series 40 devices. Further breaking them down looks like this:

  • Flash Lite 3 = 18 models
  • Flash Lite 2.1 = 20 models
  • Flash Lite 2.0 = 21 models
  • Flash Lite 1.1 = 30 models

You can download updated Flash enabled handsets spreadsheet here.

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Adobe Fireworks an upcoming event for designers and Fireworks users, Bangalore, India

Published by vivek on June 30, 2008 in Adobe and event. 0 Comments

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Via Sarthak,  Adobe Fireworks team Bangalore organizing upcoming event for designers and Fireworks users, it will be exciting event to know the power of Adobe Fireworks CS4 public Beta and its new integration with Adobe Flex, PDF, Flash, Photoshop etc.

Details of the event:

Adobe Fireworks CS4 public Beta bangalore event

Event time: Saturday 12 July 2008.
Time: 10 am to 2 pm
Venue: Adobe Campus, Bangalore

Please send a mail to “fwcs4bta@adobe.com” to confirm your participation.

you can also have a look on Adobe Fireworks Developer Center for new articles.
I will be there, let’s meet :)

vivek

Adobe Device Central - Profile Update 6 available for download

Published by vivek on June 21, 2008 in Adobe Device Central and Flash lite. 0 Comments

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Via Mark Doherty, Adobe Device Central - Profile Update 6 is available for download 

This update includes:

  •  173 device profiles as well updates to 110 existing profiles.
  • N95 8GB standalone mode now allocating 4mb heap memory.
  • Addition of new profiles for S60 Flash Lite 3.0 firmware upgrades  

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Edge June edition showing cool Flash lite demos by Adobe Experience Design team.

Published by vivek on June 12, 2008 in Flash lite, Flash lite applications and Mobile. 0 Comments

 Adobe edge June 08

Little late posting about it but its worth looking Adobe edge June 08 edition showing some of the behind the scene cool flash lite mobile application demos by Adobe Experience Design team.

Some other interesting articles in this edition are Untravel Media enables unique sightseeing tours on mobile devices and The edge of Flash.

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Forum Nokia 2008 Code Camp Competition: Flash lite winners announced

Published by vivek on June 9, 2008 in Flash lite and Mobile. 1 Comment

Forum Nokia 2008 Code Camp Competition

Forum Nokia has announced the winners of the 2008 Code Camp Competition. The contest aimed at inspiring Forum Nokia Code Camp attendees to build Web Runtime (WRT) widgets and Flash lite applications.

The Winners are:

Grand Prizes
Flash: CityLite by MSCorp of Coral Springs, Florida. A mobile guide to night life, restaurants, and entertainment venues in Latin American cities.

WRT: Flickret from Mark Caunter of the U.K. A mashup that combines the Flickr photo-sharing application with MapQuest APIs to let users look for and get directions to places of interest.

Europe/Middle East/Africa
Flash: Kuneri Easy Vote from Kuneri of Oulu, Finland. One-button mobile voting lets users vote by mobile phone call, text message, or Web service.
WRT: Flickret from Mark Caunter of the U.K.

Americas
Flash: CityLite by MSCorp.
WRT: Fon11 by Mo’Blast of Berkeley, California. A mobile social-networking utility that lets users share their whereabouts with friends and family and determine if their contacts are nearby.

Asia-Pacific
Flash: WIND from Fieldsystem. This screen saver displays an image of a propeller turning in the wind. If the mobile signal is strong, the propeller spins quickly; if the signal weakens, the propeller spins more slowly. Also, the screen saver’s background scenery changes throughout the day.
WRT: Nutrition from Singapore Polytechnic. This widget is used for calculating your BMI and also calories burned on a daily basis, and it can help the user to check typical food nutrition in order to maintain a healthy life style.

China
WRT: Push To Speak from Beijing Motech Technology. This mobile travel guide to China helps tourists search for restaurants, places of interest, streets and more. Also, when the user clicks a word, the software “speaks” the word in Chinese, a useful feature for asking directions and instructing taxi drivers. The latest version includes information relating to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

Congratulation to all winners :)

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In Japan, Cellphones Have Become Too Complex to Use

Published by vivek on June 7, 2008 in Daily life, Mobile and User experience. 0 Comments

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An interesting short report via Wired that people in Japan feel that phone become too complex with the features they have it. Japan may be in a culture of spec sheets. Where consumers go to electronics stores to buy a cellphone, they frequently line up the specifications side by side to compare them before deciding which one to buy. Some of the famous Japanese mobile companies are NTT DoCoMo, KDDI,  SoftBank and they make 5 % of global mobile phone sales, and rest all of those sales are just domestic.

  • Japanese handsets have become prime examples of feature creep gone mad. In many cases, phones in Japan are far too complex for users to master.
  • “There are tons of buttons, and different combinations or lengths of time yield different results,’” says Koh Aoki, an engineer who lives in Tokyo.
  • Experimenting with different key combinations in search of new features is “good for killing time during a long commute,” Aoki says, “but it’s definitely not elegant.”
  • Japan has long been famous for its advanced cellphones with sci-fi features like location tracking, mobile credit card payment and live TV. These handsets have been the envy of consumers in the United States, where cell technology has trailed an estimated five years or more. But while many phones would do Captain Kirk proud, most of the features are hard to use or not used at all.
  • “Some people care about quality, but first and foremost it’s about the features,” says Nobi Hayashi, a journalist and author of Steve Jobs: The Greatest Creative Director. He estimates that the average person only uses 5 to 10 percent of the functions available on their handsets.

The most important thing for any mobile company whether it is a product or services, is to provide unique user experience to end users.”Cellphones are now a days becomes an integral part of life “People are always using them and holding them, even in the middle of a meal anytime anywhere”.

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Qualcomm and Adobe Flash Collaborate to Empower Developer Ecosystems With BREW Mobile Platform

Published by vivek on May 29, 2008 in Adobe, Flash lite and Mobile. 0 Comments

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Qualcomm and Adobe announced the BREW® Mobile Platform with integrated Adobe Flash® technology and new platform features. BREW Mobile Platform, which leverages Qualcomm’s widely deployed BREW Client software, greatly expands the capabilities for developers and enables them to create rich applications and Web content in Adobe Flash for the BREW environment. The software will fully integrate and deliver Adobe Flash technology to mass market handset devices. By combining the strengths of both BREW and Flash technologies, BREW Mobile Platform brings the mobile application and Web content development communities together, setting a new standard for mass market handset platforms.

The differences between the Flash Lite extension model and the BREW Mobile Platform are:

  • Adobe Flash technology will be directly integrated into the platform, meaning no per/device per/carrier certification will be required
  • BREW developers will be able to use existing native BREW API interfaces directly with Flash via ActionScript – so Flash can become the presentation layer
  • The BREW Mobile Platform will be shipping on all mass market BREW handsets worldwide – for all BREW carriers

Great News and increasing wide areas for Adobe Flashlite developers :)

Read more
Indepth thoughts via Bill perry

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Adobe releases 3 new public betas of Creative Suite (CS4)

Published by vivek on May 27, 2008 in Adobe, Design and Web. 0 Comments

Adobe releases 3 new public betas of Creative Suite (CS4)

Adobe today release a sneak peek of three applications from the next release of Adobe Creative Suite (CS4), its award-winning collection of graphic design, Web development and video editing applications.

Application released (beta): Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Fireworks and Adobe Soundbooth
Duration: active for 48 hours only.

Download here

Note: To get the serial number that will unlock the CS4 beta applications you will first need to enter your serial number from your copy of Adobe Creative suite CS3.

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SingTel launches mio TV on Mobile service using Adobe Flash Lite technology

Published by vivek on May 21, 2008 in Flash lite and Mobile. 0 Comments

mio TV on Mobil

It’s great news coming around the world using Adobe Flash Lite technology specially in terms of on demand videos entertainment industry straight to your pocket mobile devices.

Recently Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) launches mio TV on Mobile service using Adobe Flash Lite technology and Nokia Siemens Networks’ Mobile TV streaming solution. SingTel is the first operator in Singapore and one of the first in Asia Pacific to launch a mobile TV client with true TV viewing experience on mobile phones.

“mio TV has revolutionised the way people watch TV, and the mio TV on Mobile service provides our customers with yet another convenient medium to expand their viewing options,” said Mr Wong Soon Nam, SingTel’s Vice President of Consumer Marketing.

“With Singapore’s high mobile penetration rate and SingTel’s customer base of over 2.5 million mobile users, the largest in Singapore, it makes sense to offer compelling content on our mobile platform so that Singaporeans have access to their favourite mio TV content wherever they may be.”

Expected Launching: July 2008
Price:  $6 per month for unlimited viewing of the live channels. Ondemand price $0.50 per clip.

Read more about mio TV here

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Nokia’s London design event: listen podcast from the UI design team

Published by vivek on May 19, 2008 in Design, Mobile and User experience. 0 Comments

nokia london design event

Just found this podcast via core 77 of Nokia’s recent London design event which offering a curtainpeek at their design process, ethnographic wanderings, sustainability initiatives, and plans for the future. Nokia has over 300 designers worldwide, and ships over 1.2 million products everyday. So it’s really keen to know what their designers intake for their creative food :D

Listen now(31min.) | iTunes

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A glimpse of the mobile design process by Nokia Design Studio: story behind the scene.

Published by vivek on May 15, 2008 in Daily life, Design, Mobile and User experience. 0 Comments

Nokia Design Studio: story behind the scene.

It’s always fascinated to see how these design thinkers and designers think about mobile designing and what kinda process they follow in the Making of mobile devices, Behind the Scenes. It’s really worth to see this presentation which is bit old but presented by Jan Chipchase and younghee in Nokia Design Studio, London.

Download this presentation here

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Chunghwa Telecom launches Channel Me, powered by Adobe Flash Cast.

Published by vivek on May 15, 2008 in Adobe, FlashCast and Mobile. 0 Comments

Chunghwa Telecom-Flash Cast service

Via Mark Doherty,  Yesterday in Taiwan Chunghwa Telecom launched their new Channel Me service, powered by Flash Cast. The service launches with some fantastic looking channels, some of which you can play with, see here (press the yellow button). Channels include news, weather, sports, travel, dining out amongst others. The channels look fantastic and really fit the vision of rich and engaging experiences.

The service is supported on Series 60 and Windows Mobile devices from the launch include the stunning HTC Diamond.

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Adobe Flash Player 10 Beta Delivers New Creative Features to Transform Rich Internet Experiences

Published by vivek on May 15, 2008 in Adobe, Flash, Rich Internet Application and Web. 0 Comments

Adobe Flash Player 10, code-named “Astro”

Adobe just releases Adobe Flash Player 10, code-named “Astro,” and introduces new expressive features and visual performance improvements that allow interactive designers and developers to build the richest and most immersive Web experiences. These new capabilities also empower the community to extend Flash Player and to take creativity and interactivity to a new level.Delivers New Creative Features to Transform Rich Internet Experiences. quite cool news :)

Key new features are:

  • 3D Effects
  • Custom Filters and Effects
  • Advanced Text Layout
  • Enhanced Drawing API
  • Visual Performance Improvements

View live demo here
Read complete details and download Flash Player 10 via adobe lab
Read press release here

Great new experiences coming around :D

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it’s me in 30onair.com speaking on Adobe Flash lite :)

Published by vivek on May 11, 2008 in Adobe, Flash lite, Mobile, event and our Portfolio. 2 Comments

Last month when i was in Adobe RIA Architect Summit 2008, Bangalore. Raghu from Adobe capture this 30 seconds video about me and what Adobe Flash lite means to me :) honestly 30 seconds moved so fast fast :D and its gone till 1 minute ..he heThanks Raghu for uploading this video on www.30onair.com.vivek