Although Adobe isn’t explicitly documenting the drawing api in Flash Lite 2.0 … it’s probably the one of the top features in the new release (along with several other AS2 specific features: setInterval, the Math object, onEnterFrame, etc, etc, etc).

From creating custom UI’s, to creating charts/bars/graphics, the uses are far and many.

Unfortunately, performance (CPU/memory) put some limits on your imagination for the time being … until device hardware and software play catch up in the mobile world, that is … but it doesn’t stop you from pushing the envelope.

I put together this sample called “iterative spirals” in Flash Lite 2.

Download : spirals.swf

Hopefully people don’t think I’m too mad to attempt this.

Obviously, I had to scale back due to memory and cpu … it runs fairly well on my 6680, at 15 fps, at medium quality … at high quality, well, there is slow down, but that’s what you would expect. At low, it runs quite well.

Sure there is mobile processing, and with J2ME one might get slightly better performance … but, you can imagine what Flash Lite will be like in a few years time as technologies evolve, and roadmap for Flash Lite approaches that of desktop flash. Question is not will it happen, but when.

Seems likely the way devices get pumped out by the likes of Nokia and company, it might be sooner rather than later.

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