If you hadn’t heard the news earlier this month, On2 technologies was acquired by Google. On2 VP6 codec has been used in Flash since version 8 (native .FLV, or Flash Video) and is very popular for video streaming services these days (e.g. hulu, and many many others)! Sorry for the delay in this news, but [...]

Adobe has four new whitepapers covering Flash Lite for Digital Home: 1. Getting Started with Adobe Flash Lite for the Digital Home This guide introduces C++ and Linux® developers to the Adobe® Flash® Lite® for the digital home platform development kit. It highlights Flash Lite for the digital home features. It also describes how to [...]

Articulate has a product called Presenter, which allows Microsoft Powerpoint presentations to be output to as SWFs that run on desktop, as well as devices supporting Flash Lite 3. I tried it out, quickly, and it’s a simple process of exporting, and then copying mobile-player.swf, associated presentation SWFs, and configuration XML over to a mobile [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

This week is Flash on Tap, and I’m just putting the finishing touches on my presentation entitled: “Brewing Flash Experiences on Non-PC devices” (aka “Brewing Non-PC Flash Experiences”) which I will be delivering at the conference. “If you haven’t heard the recent news, Flash will be running on well over 1 billion Non-PC devices, worldwide, [...]

According to AllAboutSymbian, the Nokia OVI store is live as part of what appears to be a “soft launch”. Appears as though they are rolling out over the course of the next couple weeks into various regions, so do the following to bring down the OVI Store app on your supported S40/S60 device: 1. Open [...]

The one (and only) “Darren” I know from Canada. Darren has an Adobe Devnet Article called “Building a List component in Flash Lite”. He covers creating a simple scrollable data list component for Flash Lite 2.x/3.x (AS 2.0). “In this tutorial I’ll describe how to build a simple but useful List component for Flash Lite [...]

P35. The overview of the device. iRiver P35 UI (not sure if it’s Flash – maybe)