Rien Verbrugghe has done a great job of cataloging a huge number of Flash Lite development, testing and packaging tips from a number of conference sessions and also the various Flash Lite development blogs. If you want a handy quick reference of Flash Lite development tricks and common gotchas this is worth book marking or [...]

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In my new position the team I have joined and me are carying out some in depth testing of an Action Script 2 code base for Flash Lite 3 using, among other things, ASUnit based unit and acceptance tests. The early stage of development means it is too soon to leverage the new automated testing [...]

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I missed this yesterday. Nokia have released the Flash Lite Flash Lite Developer’s Library 1.1 . One of the important aspects of this launch is the inclusion of documentation for using the new Nokia S60 Platform Services.
The Platform Services enable flash application to access Device Capabilities and services that were previously only possible through third [...]

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For some time I have used Eclipse, FDT and MTASC as my preferred weapon of choice when doing AS2 development, I switch to Flex Builder for AS3 , Flex or AIR. One spanner in these works when using Mac OSX had been when producing mobile content for FlashLite 2+. Flash Lite 2 and FLash Lite [...]

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This week I took 3 days to attend a Flash Lite 3 training course being provided by Adobe software that was presented by Dale Rankine from Moket . It was a fantastic training course, very well presented and chock full of useful information. Thanks to Dale, Suzanne and Adobe for arranging, organizing and presenting the [...]

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Following the announcement from Adobe of the open screen project, news comes from the Embedded Systems Expo that NEC is showing what sounds like it might be an alternative to Adobe’s Flash Lite Player.
Its a little hard to make complete sense of the post from EETimes.com. But some interesting quotes from the short, slightly cryptic [...]

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Keeping with the algebraic/code functions as titles from my Last post I thought I would put some thoughts down regarding the news from Adobe earlier this week of their Open Screen Project (OSP). Anyone working in the Web/Internet industry at the moment will be well aware of the Rich Internet/Interactive Application (RIA) moniker. What Adobe [...]

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Thats right, its all very last minute but I will be presenting a session at the upcoming Over the Air event in London this week.
My session is scheduled for Friday afternoon.

Flash Video Nokia Masterclass – Dave Williamson (Adobe)Learn how to create live video applications with the most popular online video format on Nokia devices.

Over the [...]

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As many people will have seen yesterday Nokia release a fairly major update to the N95 firmware. One of the major bonuses for flash developers is the inclusion of FlashLite 3 as standard onto the device, both as a standalone player and within the browser. For those using detection scripts the player version reported in [...]

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More exciting news on the future of FlashLite 3 proliferation. Bill Perry has a great explanation of how the news that Microsoft has licensed Flash Lite 3 and Reader LE for future Windows Mobile based devices will affect FlashLite 3 content developers.
Read the Full Press Release here

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I have still getting people sending me the IMEI numbers asking me to send them the Adobe FlashLite 3 player. For those that missed the announcement FlashLite 3 is freely availible as a Developer Edition on Symbian based mobile devices. The release notes on the Adobe Labs site explain that the player has only been [...]

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Last week it looks like the German webmasters of Nokia’s website managed to post the specifications for their latest update in the N series line of phones, the N96. This week I had the chance to lay my hands on the 8gig edition of the N95 and was impressed enough that it was going to [...]

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Following on from the simple BatteryBroadcaster class posted last week I have put together a second helper class for FlashLite, again built in ActionScript 2, so it should work for any FlashLite 2 or FlashLite 3 project. The NetworkBroadcaster class centralises all network and signal related events, and broadcasts any changes to listeners on 2 [...]

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I have been sorting through some of my old code, commenting up some bits and generally refreshing the grey matter on some of the things I have been working on. I thought I would put some of the helper classes I use out into the wild. First up is a simple class that I used [...]

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If you are interested in testing your new FlashLite 3 content on device, as all good developers should be, the there is an interim build of FlashLite 3 availible that has been certified only for Nokia N95.
You must submit your IMEI number by Noon Eastern Time on the 16th of October. Details of the [...]

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Along with the news of updates for CS3 and Device Central to support FlashLite 3 Authoring from within the CS 3 suite of products. The FlashLite product website has a side by side comparison of various Flash player specifications that are currently being used in Mobiles and other devices.
see the Flash Version Comparison Chart
Some [...]

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Following the press release announcing FlashLite 3 I proceeded to do some more digging. Wondering how I can start producing this new fangled FlashLite 3 Content, I followed some links through from the new Nokia Mobile Developers Site mentioned in the previous post and found new downloads for updates to Flash CS3 and Device Central [...]

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Adobe have posted a press release today, it seems that they announced the release of FlashLite 3 at Max in Chicago. Included in the release is the well know news from a previous press release that the new Mobile FlashLite player will support the Flash Streaming Video Format .FLV.
Also mentioned in the release is [...]

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