Gigabyte Communications released new smartphone “S1200” which uses Flash Lite for user interface. The phone uses windows mobile OS. To be honest Interface looks good without doubt but i feel there is wow factor is missing.
What you think about it? What can be a new touch interaction? How a phone can be more emotionally designed and defined for fresh thinking!!.
Via Dale “Object Orientated Programming (OOP) is something that more Flash mobile developers will need to grasp as the Flash mobile platform matures. In this episode, you will have a look at a sample architecture for a Flash mobile application.
There are various ways of managing control over the different screens, or views, within your Flash Lite application. In this episode Dale Rankine shares some of these techniques and the implications for your application.
Adobe and HTC, a global designer of mobile phones, today announced that the new HTC Hero is the first Android phone to ship with support for Adobe Flash Platform technology. The new phone delivers a more complete Web browsing experience and provides access to a broad variety of Flash technology based content available on the Web today.
“As the first Android device with Flash, the new HTC Hero represents a key milestone for Android and the Flash Platform. With close to 80 percent of all videos online delivered with Adobe Flash technology, consumers want to access rich Web content on-the-go.†said David Wadhwani, vice president and general manager, Platform Business Unit at Adobe.
“The collaboration with HTC offers people a more complete Flash based Web browsing experience today and presents an important step towards full Web browsing with Flash Player 10 on mobile phones in the future.â€
Apple iPhone is still missing Flash Player and wish to have it soon.
Bill Perry has updated new Nokia Devices support for Adobe flash lite Technologies. You can find details of particular Nokia Device and their respective support of Flash Player, like Flash Player as Browser Plug-in, standalone apps, personalization etc.
I submitted my cute little application “Nature” to the FlashLite Developer’s Challenge and hope people will like it. I will share further more details, video and couple of more screenshots soon.
Forum Nokia released the first set of mobile optimized components “Flash Lite Components v1.0 beta” The components come as installable .mxp files with instructions and full source code.
“This resource file includes six Flash Lite components; Button component, Contacts component, List component, Media data component, Popup component, and Scrollbar component. The components can be used to develop applications to devices supporting Flash Lite 2.0.”
Via Mark, Flash lite Distributable Player include support to 13 countries and 31 devices. The player currently allows over the air download of the Flash Lite 3.1 player.
Adobe Extends Flash Platform to Digital Home 🙂 awesome news for Flash developers and a new creative area to play around. Surprisngly that the Digital Home player is built on Flash Lite 3.1 Player. you can even think on rich internet application on TV!
Adobe today announced the extension of the Adobe Flash Platform to connected digital home devices with an optimized implementation of Flash technology that delivers high definition (HD) video and rich applications to Internet-connected televisions, set-top boxes, Blu-ray players and other devices in the digital living room.
The Adobe Flash Platform for the Digital Home now enables the delivery of HD Web videos to digital home devices via the Flash Video (FLV) file format. Consumers will be able to enjoy rich, interactive viewing experiences and amazing new ways to engage with HD content on televisions. Flash technology-based applications will allow users to quickly switch between television programming and Web content outside the Web browser.“Adobe Flash Platform for the Digital Home will dramatically change the way we view content on televisions,†said David Wadhwani, general manager and vice president, Platform Business Unit at Adobe. “Consumers are looking to access their favorite Flash technology-based videos, applications, services and other rich Web content across screens. We are looking forward to working with partners to create these new experiences and deliver content consistently across devices whether consumers view it on their desktop, mobile phone or television.â€
Kuneri launched a very intresting service for generating dynamic Flash Lite content online. Flash Lite Generator enables you to create and modify Flash Lite mobile content on server side.
Main Feature Highlights are:
Compatible with all Flash Lite versions: 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 2.1, 3.0 and 3.1.
Control Movie Clips (move, rotate, scale, duplicate, group, animate, transform, create …)
Combine 2 SWF together, insert a SWF into another
Convert image files (JPG, GIF, PNG) to SWF
Convert audio files (WAV) to SWF
Convert video files (AVI) to SWF (H.263 compression)
Convert fonts to SWF
I still like to test this for functionality and efficiancy for creating a right swf files. Also this service is not new and something similar is available from japanese mobile company “pikkle”
Adobe pubilshed a valuable beta reference pdf that contains an overview of supported and unsupported ActionScript in Flash Lite versions 2.1, 3.0, 3.1, 3.1.7 as well as Adobe Mobile Clients: 1.0 and 1.1
Opera announced the new Opera Mobile 9.7 server-accelerated browser for smartphones and mobile devices. Opera Mobile 9.7 features Opera Turbo, Opera’s breakthrough compression technology, along with the company’s latest Presto 2.2 rendering engine (also used in Opera 10 desktop) and full support for dynamic Web technologies such as Ajax and Flash (for accessing popular sites like Facebook and YouTube).
Opera Mobile 9.7 will be officially available for download in the first half of 2009.
Adobe and Nokia announced a $10 million Open Screen Project fund which is designed to help developers create applications and services for mobile, desktop and consumer electronics devices using the Adobe Flash Platform “a singular experience for multiple devices”
“The Open Screen Project Fund encourages the use of Adobe tools and existing developer skills to create exciting and unique Flash applications for millions of Nokia devices,†said Tero Ojanpera, EVP, Nokia Services. “With more than 300 million Flash enabled devices in market, we will support these developers through the Forum Nokia developer community while providing a more targeted distribution channel to consumers with Nokia’s Ovi Store.â€
The new fund is a result of the Open Screen Project, an industry-wide initiative of more than 20 industry leaders set to enable a consistent experience for web browsing and standalone applications. you can find additional information on the Open Screen Project website and Forum Nokia website.
LG released a cool sporty phone with beautiful user interface using Adobe Mobile Client “a flash lite technology, especially used for User interface and only available for an OEM or targeting BREW MP.
The user interface is very intuitive that users will want to explore and master all of the functions and features of the LG-KP500. The UI allows users to access menus easily and shift around other menus simply and quickly with just one touch.