There has been a wave of news originating from Anand’s post lately about Flash Lite 3.1 made available for OEMs. *Personally* I don’t see this as a big news, due it’s for OEMs, and I don’t see any large scale OEM to go for that, due most of them already licensed Flash Lite from Adobe: No big impact for Flash Lite developers.
Today Mark Doherty (Manager of Developer Relations at Adobe Mobile and Devices - EMEA) provided official(?) details about upcoming Flash Lite 3.1 and its features. According to Mark; Flash Lite 3.1 does not offer big difference, but some improvements like;
Improved Web Browsing, 91% of top 500 internet sites.
Flash 9 (AS2 only) support
Local Connection / HTML Text / GetURL_target / CSS support / WMode
H.264 support / Improved video support (smoothing, seek)
Improved memory handling for images
MP3 Streaming support
Linux Reference port
Looking forward to see first S60 FP2 device shipped and test Flash Lite 3.1. And thanks to Mark for providing us details.
Finally we released KuneriLite 0.9.6.1. There are cool new features that you will like. You can download it here. Please uninstall previous versions before installing, and do not forget to backup your project just in case.
New features
* Launch SWF in phone boot (startup)
* Days and month support for Timer plugin
* JPG resize command in Upload/Download plugin and Camera plugin
* Extracting zip files with Unzip command in File plugin
* Custom /predefined IAP (Internet Access Point) support in Upload/Download plugin
* Switch to disable escape decoding of a variable
Changes
* Fixes and optimizations for Flash Lite 3 devices
* Fixed install paths in KuneriLite Wizard
* Camera plugin buttons layout fixed in some phone models
* Fixed variable returning in Upload/Download plugin loadVariables command
Bill posted a really great resource: Flash Lite market percentage (as of January 2008). Those numbers are from U.S and Western Europe and give quite good impression of the target market in those selected regions. Listed numbers include Nokia S60, Nokia Series 40, Sony Ericsson and BREW. It’s especially great to see the numbers of devices separately for each platform as well. I always thought UK had the most S60 devices in Europe, however it’s clear that Italy is the leader.
This article gives some recommendations regarding performance improvements when using Flash Lite. Optimization efforts are needed in order to create a high-quality movie or application. The article covers both content optimization and ActionScript optimization.
Tomorrow there is an interesting seminar that will be presented by Stephen Ellis (Forum Nokia) and Bill Perry (Adobe): Flash and Mobile Browsing.
There will be Question and Answer at the end of the seminar, therefore do not miss the chance to ask your questions and get the answers from first hand!
How cool would it be if developers and designers could create great-looking S60 applications without any special technical knowledge? Creating mobile applications for S60 devices generally requires knowledge of Symbian OS, the platform’s underlying operating system, and the C++ programming language. However, simplicity is the promise of Kuneri Ltd.’s KuneriLite, a rapid application development toolkit that lets users create S60 applications on a PC using only Flash Lite from Adobe. “There is no need to know anything about Symbian OS, since the developer never touches any Symbian code,” says Ugur Kaner, CEO and co-founder of Kuneri Ltd.
You can also get the PDF of the interview or access from Nokia page.
Flash Lite Developer’s Library a really cool resource for developers from Forum Nokia. It’s available for online and offline use.
The Flash Lite Developer’s Library is an information package for desktop Flash developers and mobile software developers looking to branch out to Flash Lite development. The library offers introductory and getting started information as well as several use cases describing Flash Lite features in more detail. This library is available in HTML format online and as a stand-alone version.
Adobe just launched a Flash Mobile Gallery containing Flash Lite screensavers, wallpapers, games and applications. You can see elite examples of Flash Lite content with a demonstration, description and reference to their developers.
