Dale’s posted a new sneak peak video of the new features in Adobe Device Central CS5.Few important thing as collected from scott:
ADC is not just for mobile phones, it also supports other devices such as those that are in the Adobe Digital Home realm (e.g. TV’s, set top boxes).
Supports community sharing of profiles. Community, Private, and Adobe Certified are all different types of profiles a developer can be using now, as well as sharing with other developers during project development.
Accelerometer for testing against devices that support that sensor.
GPS sensor panel.
Multi-touch panel.
“Dockable UI” just like in other CS products (e.g. Flash). Workspaces are also supported.
Fireworks is now part of the ADC work-flow (BTW: Fireworks is being picked up for mobile design across various device platforms, even iPhone!).
Via Dale, another great video on “Flash Lite for the Digital Home” is the jumping point for application developers to move their existing skills and experience onto an entirely new screen - the TV! In this episode we outline the fundamentals of understanding Flash for TV, and some of the things developers will need to consider.
Via Alessandro, Dale Rankine has added a new video tutorial in his Developing with Flash Lite series, this is a simple checklist of some core performance optimzation techniques for helping to make your Flash Lite apps run as smooth as possible.
Via Biskero, Dale posted a new Flash Lite training video to tell us what can we make with Flash Lite.
Here you will look at some of the categories of what can be created using Flash Lite, some demonstrations of applications and content that have been developed by the Flash mobile community.
Via Mark, Adobe Device Central CS4 profiles update 5 is available for download. This new update contains 36 new and some updated profiles bringing the total number of supported devices to 738. It includes many profiles like:
Nokia 5530 XpressMusic
Nokia 5630 XpressMusic
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Flash Lite 3.1
Nokia E52
Nokia N86 8MP
Nokia N97
Samsung I8910 HD
All new device profiles are directly available through the Online Device Library in Adobe Device Central CS4. You can double click a new device in the Online Device Library to download it to the local library. Alternatively, right click the device and then choose “Download to Local Library”.
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.
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.
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.
Intelligere Flash Lite Server (FLS) is a c++ opoen source component that gives to you the possibility to interact with the API of a symbian device from Flash Lite. Using FLS you can extend the capabilities of your Flash Lite application making some simple HTTP calls sending commands and getting back data in ths SWF file.
The main features of FLS are
- Launch native video player in full screen mode
- Download a file from the NET
- Check the percentage of the download in progress
- Create the APN without opening the native selector -certificate is requested
- Read variables without opening the APN selector
- Stop all the downloads
- Close the whole application
- Create a file
- Delete a file
- Write content into a file deleting everything before
- Append content to a file
- Clear all the contents of a file
- Rename a file
- Check if a file exist
- Get all the content of a directory
- Create a directory
- Delete a directory
Adobe Device Central CS4 update is available for download with 46 new updated profiles.This update include newer phone models from NTT DoCoMo, KDDI, Soft Bank, Nokia, Sony Ericsson etc.
