12/18/2007
IMPORTANT NOTE:
The meeting schedule for Dec 20th below has been postponed. Most likely it will be rescheduled. Stay tuned in 2008. Sorry for the inconvenience.
-sj

I will be giving a talk on Flash Lite 3 at the upcoming Harvard University’s Flash User Group meeting scheduled for next month.
Topic: Flash Lite 3
Presenter: Scott Janousek
Date: Thursday, December 20, [...]

Leonardo Risuleo (”byte”) posted the slides from the Janus e-seminar meeting that happened recently (unfortunately, Alessandro’s blog is down so I don’t know the if there is a recording URL of the archived e-seminar).

I’ll start with a pretty obvious statement (well, obvious to those doing mobile):

Optimization (or “Optimisation” if you prefer!) is an huge part of mobile development.

A lot of folks doing desktop development take resources (memory, processor, etc) for granted these days on the desktop. There are all very precious commodities when dealing on 99.9% of [...]

Just an FYI, but I believe there is still Flash Lite 3 training going on in San Francisco this week (you’ll need to email to see if it’s the case (adjust the email or it’ll bounce), … or perhaps Bill or someone from Adobe will comment below).
Below is the courseware overview.
Adobe Flash Lite 2.x/3.0 [...]

Mark Doherty (Adobe, MaD) posted a zip file containing some resources in regards to Flash Mobile device performance tuning as well as other tips from Adobe staff, internal projects, etc.
Mark’s words:

… In the files, mostly written by Adobe staff, you will discover strange Flash Lite oddities, bug work-arounds and tips for better coding for mobile [...]

On Wednesday, October 24, 2007 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM US/Pacific, Bill Perry will be giving an eseminar on Developing Flash Lite 3 Applications for Nokia Devices.

With over 62 different Nokia models worldwide with Flash Lite pre-installed, the market opportunity for developing mobile Flash content is expanding and you can be a part of it. [...]

When creating screen saver content, consider adding to the 1st frame:
[actionscript]
status = fscommand2( “FullScreen”, true );
[/actionscript]
This will enable your content to FullScreen even if it is run outside of screen saver mode on devices supporting this specific content type. By default, Flash Lite content will run FullScreen automatically when in screen saver mode, but this [...]

Already covered elsewhere, but

Many Flash folks who read here already know it has been possible to set document Title and Description properties in Flash … this has been in the IDE for as long as I can remember.

However, not everyone knows that as early as Flash 8, this info was actually stored within the compiled .SWF itself, as [...]

I just got a post back (english) in regards to the Flash Lite 1.1 Syntax Reference Sheet I created ages ago … apparently from the Flash Mobile Group in Spain.
So, yes, for all others, if you are doing Flash Lite 1.1, this sheet might come in handy still, for those not acquainted with ActionScript “0.5″ [...]