I recently was interviewed by Jonathan Kardos of the BostInnovation blog. The topic was Flash and the whole “Apple versus Adobe” ordeal. I took some time out of a very busy schedule to relay some of my thoughts on the matter in some Q&A. These are thoughts from a mobile and device developer who has [...]

One Web. Any Screen:

The recording from last week’s

Justin Everett-Church has written an Adobe Developer Connection article : Introducing Flash Player 10.1 on some of the features to look forward to when it ships (so of it is mobile & device related).

According to Mark, Adobe has just increased the number of supported countries from 16 to 29 which you can distribute Flash Lite 3.1 content to using the Adobe Mobile Packager 1.1. The countries are now: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, [...]

Mark made the Flash community aware that Adobe Device Central CS3 has update #9 available, containing the usually new, and “enhanced” profiles (aka profile fixes). According to his post, this is likely to be the last update for ADC CS3. Although there are times when I long for developing under CS3 instead of CS4 (because [...]

So, if you hadn’t caught the news this week, Adobe released the schedule for the upcoming Adobe MAX conference to be held in Los Angeles later this year from October 4 to October 7. In terms of mobile sessions? Well, if you had not heard the news (actually, Shantu just talked about it in his [...]

According to Mark Doherty (Adobe) and Dale, the Adobe Mobile Packager 1.1 is now available. You can the find download links here. Also, in case you hadn’t noticed, there are updated videos over on youTube which explains how to use the Adobe Mobile Packager, as well as how to sign on both windows and symbian [...]

There’s a new video covering mobile icon creation for Flash Lite content over on tv.adobe.com. Although the tutorial is intended for designing and creating icons for Symbian S60 and Windows Mobile CAB packages (.svg for .sis and .ico for .cab), some of the tips can be applied elsewhere (iPhone, Android, etc). Watch the Mobile Icon [...]

Brewing Flash Experiences on Non-PC Devices View more PDF documents from Scott Janousek. My slides from Flash on Tap 2009: Brewing Flash Experiences on Non-PC Devices. According to Adobe, Flash now runs on close to one billion devices, worldwide. Scott Janousek, Adobe Community Expert for Mobile and Devices and co-author of “Foundation Flash Applications for [...]