Tag: Adobe

Dynamically generate Flash Lite SWF content online

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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”

vivek

Nokia and Adobe launch $10 Million Open Screen Project Fund

Open Screen Project Fund

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.”

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.

vivek

good article on “Industry trends in prototyping”

trends in prototyping

trends in prototyping

A nice article by Dave Cronin on “Industry trends in prototyping” and work around in different scenarios.

There are various reasons for creating prototypes.

  • Prototypes make your designs better
  • Prototypes facilitate communication
  • Prototypes enable user input and usability assessment
  • Prototypes help assess technical feasibility and reduce development time

“Call it serendipity or even luck, but once you start drawing or making things, you open up new possibilities of discovery.”

vivek

Adobe Flash Player 10 critical Update for Flash CS4 Professional!

Adobe released an important update for Adobe Flash Player 10 Update for Flash CS4 Professional!

“This download contains fixes for critical vulnerabilities identified in Security Bulletin APSB09-01 Flash Player update available to address security vulnerabilities. The update replaces the Debug and Release versions of Flash Player 10 browser plugins and standalone players that are included in the initial release of Flash CS4 Professional (player version 10.0.2.54). All users are encouraged to apply this update. These new players are version 10.0.22.87.”

vivek

Microsoft’s announced new version of Windows Mobile with Adobe Flash lite 3.1

Microsoft’s announced at the Mobile World Congress, Barcelona that newer version of Windows Mobile is with adobe Flash Lite 3.1

“What people really want is PC-style browsing on the phone. … There’s all these stats whereby if you tell users, go to the most popular sites and do something, they have this success and failure rate of whether they can do it on different mobile smart phones. With Internet Explorer, our rendering, how the UI looks, it is much more accurate to the PC because it’s the PC browser.”

“Then, by including Flash Lite in there, it also helps if you have a Flash site. Some of them use Flash actually as core navigation and functionality. So it’s not all eye candy. If you go to a site like that, at least you can go find the information and interact with it. The bigger news isn’t about Flash Lite, the bigger news is about getting PC-quality browsing on your phone.”

vivek

Adobe Releases Distributable Flash Lite 3.1 Player

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Adobe released the most excited stuff for Adobe Flash Lite developer “redistributable version of the Flash Lite 3.1 player along with the packager tool”. You really don’t need to worry about whether someone has the player, and being helpless to get them it if they haven’t. 🙂

The distributable player solution enables developers to create rich applications for the latest version of Adobe® Flash Lite™ and directly distribute their content to millions of open OS smartphones, providing a better on-device user experience.

Currently this solution is available only in few selected cities like India, Italy, Spain, UK, and the U.S. can easily download applications. (additional countries will be added over time.) After downloading an application, consumers see its user-friendly icon in the device menu.

I am excited to do few testing on my Nokia 5320 Xpress music, we all should be proud that adobe made this available for India 😀 .

Read more here

vivek

Flash Lite Enabled Handsets to Top 1 Billion Cumulative Shipments in Q1 2009

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Via Biskero, Strategy Analytics released new statistics about Adobe Flash Lite.

“Cumulative shipments of Flash-Lite enabled cellphones hit an estimated 961 million units at the of December 2008, up 489 million units over the previous year. With a current run-rate of over 40 million new shipments per month, Strategy Analytics estimates that the 1 billion figure will have been reached by the end of January 2009. Shipments of FL version 3.0 accounted for 8% of total FL shipments in 2008 globally, though in Japan the figure was over 42%”

Vivek