Kuneri bloggy

Upcoming seminar from Adobe: Best Practices for Performance and Memory for Flash Lite on 27th June Wednesday at 9-10 AM US/Pacific.

Prashant Panigrahi, tech support engineer for the Adobe Mobile and Devices business unit, will take you under the hood of different memory management schemes used by FlashLite 2.x and the mobile platform. He will demonstrate how you can best tune your application/content to maximum performance and efficient memory usage.

You will learn:

How memory management and garbage collection work in Flash Lite 2.x

How you can tune your Flash Lite 2.x application/content to make the most use of the limited memory and CPU cycles on your mobile device.

Key points to consider for better performance while developing your Flash Lite 2.x applications/content for mobile devices

A new article on Adobe DevNet from Ryan and Zak: Developing Flash Lite for BREW applications for Verizon Wireless.

This article will teach you how to develop Flash Lite for BREW content directly for Verizon Wireless. It will detail the process of becoming an authorized Qualcomm BREW developer, testing your Flash Lite for BREW content on a Verizon Wireless handset, and selling your content through Verizon Wireless.

TFH gives away 10 best wallpapers created by them. Liked them all, quite artistic. Thanks!

Nigel posted a simple tutorial on how to make transparent favicons on Augnofi forums. It’s quite handy in case you are lazy to dig the web to figure out how to do it.

We are proud to announce the launch of Adobe User Group Northern Finland: Augnofi!

We aim to create a warm, active and creative community on the top of the world, spreading our energy to the rest of the world. Global contests, live and online seminars, cool workshops and interviews with the experts from the heart of mobile technology are in our future program.

Spread the word; don’t forget to check it out and join! All welcome!

4 new video tutorials for Adobe Device Central CS3.

Using the Device Central workspace

Understand the Device Central workspace and learn how to set preferences, work with device profiles, and create new mobile documents. Find out how to search for devices and take advantage of device profiles and sets in the workspace, including how to create a new device set and use the Search Devices filter.

Using Device Central with Photoshop

Discover how to use Device Central with Photoshop to create new mobile files, modify mobile content, test it in Device Central, and return to Photoshop to further modify your work.

Creating mobile content in Flash

Find out how to create mobile content using Flash and how to test it in Device Central.

Creating mobile content in Illustrator

Learn how to create mobile content in Illustrator and preview it in Device Central, including how to make adjustments to the illustration, and test it using different settings.

We announced availability of KuneriLite; our innovative S60 framework for Flash Lite developers, in December. It’s been long time since then. Many things changed in market and business; effecting our schedule sometimes positive, sometimes not so positive.

Our initial plan was to release KuneriLite for S60 2nd edition in January and for S60 3rd edition in first quarter of 2007. However, later on we decided to drop 2nd edition support, and go for only 3rd edition. There are many reasons lying behind this decision, however can say that we wanted something that can be used in products right away, and such a framework for S60 2nd edition still doesn’t seem to have productive outcome.

We are about to release KuneriLite beta, hopefully at the end of April. Branding is done, design is ready, security checks are about to be completed and we will soon call for alpha testers. It works seamlessly on S60 3rd editon and we are very happy with the results. Our engineers worked hard, we are all excited and we all believe that it will effect the way of mobile development in a very positive way. KuneriLite will simply allow Flash Lite developers to extend Flash Lite capabilities on S60 platform without any knowledge of Symbian programming.

With first release; Save, Connect, Timer and Download modules will be released; followed by GPS and Camera in following months. Number of modules will increase in time and according to the feedback of developers.

Stay tuned!

Stripes are a new trend in design, as well as reflections. Many designers use these patterns in different phases of their designs, sometimes combining all together. We also use stripes in our designs often. Before, we used to create our stripes manually, however recently we found a nice online tool to generate stripes automatically, and it really became handy. Meet StripeGenerator; an AJAX diagonal (although it says diagonal, you can change orientation easily) stripes background designer, if you haven’t met already. Easy to use and get results.

Ramsey has an interesting post, stating his opinions about Flash Lite development on Windows mobile devices, and why it may be the best platform for web Flash designers and developers to jump into mobile market. I can not comment on that issue due haven’t put my hands on Windows mobile, but if you would like to discuss, check his post out.

Windows Mobile has a lot of things going for it that kind of ease the transition from web to mobile:

• Familiar operating system rules
• Easy to put the Flash player on the device
• Easy to install third-party apps on the device
• Wide range of Windows Mobile devices with fairly powerful processors and decent memory space
• Windows Mobile devices usually have great screen resolution

Phil launches a new Flash Lite tutorial blog. He is also looking for experienced Flash designers and/or vector artists with original Flash Lite menu creation ideas to collaborate. There are many tutorials already, check it out.