Archive for the 'Mobile User Interfaces' Category

Flash on Mobile and Devices track at FATC 2010 (updated)

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

With all the exciting announcements around Flash across devices, thought I’d post about our upcoming workshop that’s happening at FATC (aka Flash and the City) in NYC next month, May 13th (the official conference is 14th-16th, BTW). Now, if you checked it out earlier this year you would have noticed an iPhone specific session. Not [...]

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iPad User Interface done using Flex

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Kind of cool. Here’s the iPad UI done using Adobe tooling (i.e. Flex): A first iteration of an Adobe AIR application built in Flex 4 that demonstrates the UI of the iPad – http://merhl.com

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FITC Mobile ’09: Practical Design & Development with Flash on Mobile and Devices slides posted

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

I’ve posted slides from my Flash Mobile and Device session (Practical Design & Development with Flash on Mobile and Devices) at this past week’s FITC Mobile 2009. You’ll find it among many of my previous presos.

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LG releases a new Flash Lite tutorial: Creating a List Sample

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

LG has released a new Flash Lite tutorial: Creating a List Sample. You can find it here, and searching on “Flash Lite”. There are also some other Flash Lite resources specifically to designing and developing with Flash across LG devices. Flash Lite™ Tutorial Series Part 1: Creating a List Sample Registration Date 29-AUG-2008 Description This [...]

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Sony Ericsson updates their Flash UI Components to version 2.0 (beta)

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Just recently, Sony Ericsson updated their UI Components to version 2.0 (beta). This includes 18 new components optimized for SEMC devices, and especially those suited to run Capuchin: Action List Dialog Basic Dialog Confirmation Dialog Image Infotip List Check Box List Radio Button Notification Options Menu Top Level Options Menu Sub Level Scrollable Area Scrollable [...]

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Flash Lite Book from Japan

Friday, August 14th, 2009

A book on Flash Lite from Japan. It’s mostly Flash Lite 1.1 (i.e. Flash timeline based projects). Interesting to note that a 1.1 book still has a market over there, even though we have advanced to 2.x, 3.x, and soon: Flash 10-like functionality across top tier devices.

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Sony Ericsson Flash Lite UI Components (MXP package for Flash and Project Capuchin developers)

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

Sony Ericsson has released some Flash (Lite) components for use across it’s devices and useful for leveraging with Project Capuchin (in MXP installable format). “Sony Ericsson has introduced a set of Flash Lite™ User Interface components. With Sony Ericsson UI components, Flash developers can now build custom user interfaces in a fraction of the time [...]

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20 Million Windows Mobile Devices Shipped in 2008

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

Mark had a post about the 20 million Windows Mobile Devices Shipped in 2008. “Yesterday I heard an interesting fact that I thought I’d share. So in 2008 Samsung, LG and a few others shipped 20 million Windows Mobile devices around the world. 80% of these had touch screens instead of standard keypads, and so [...]

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Speaking at FITC Mobile 2009 in September 2009

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

I’ve just been confirmed I will be giving a talk at the 1st ever FITC Mobile conference up in Toronto in September. My session will be on utilizing device APIs to tap into accelerometers for UI, games, and applications (across a number of mobile platforms). The session is called: “Leveraging Accelerometers in Mobile Devices”. Here [...]

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INSPIRE video from the Adobe XD team: Experiences that Scale across Devices

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Here’s a recently posted INSPIRE video from the Adobe XD (Experience Design team). Looks like some of the preso is from Adobe MAX 2008. “Experiences that Scale across Devices How do experiences built for Adobe AIR work across platforms? In this MAX session, Matt Snow and Ali Ivmark shared examples of rich, connected applications being [...]

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