The details of the next Mobile Design UK event have been posted, the Mobile Design UK event will take place on the 4th of June at the Tavern Room at RSA on John Adam Street in London.
The last Mobile Design UK event was really well presented and provided some great insight into the technical and [...]

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Last night I attended the Mobile Design UK event held at the RSA Tavern room, near London’s Charring Cross. It was a great evening and the venue was fantastic, a really well equipped space that made the evening feel wonderfully personal. The smaller location really fostered some great discussions following each of the speakers [...]

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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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With Adobe Max San Francisco now only 2 weeks away its important to make sure you have organized your schedule, if you haven’t already. This year Adobe hosting 2 events which aim to bring developers together with some of the industry leaders in the mobile market place. So if you are a developer interested in [...]

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A quick reminder to any developers focusing on Mobile Development. If you were planning to attend the UK MaD Meeting tomorrow remember to register for the event by sending an email to UGadmin@flashmobilegroup-uk.org with the subject “I want to attend the UKMaD Meeting oct 2008″ include your name, contact email & contact number . If [...]

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Mark Doherty over at Flash Mobile Blog has just posted the news that Adobe have release the seventh update to device profiles for Adobe Device Central CS3.
Headline Numbers for this update:

261 profiles included
57 new devices
updates to 204 existing profiles
In total that makes 525 device profiles for you to create content with

Download Adobe Device Central Update [...]

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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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I you are a Flash developer producing mobile content for Flash Lite then this week end you really hit pay dirt. First Nokia announced a set of Components for Flash Lite 2. Next Adobe also release a set of Components, for use with Flash Lite 1 and also Flash Lite 2, courtesy of Mark Doherty. [...]

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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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This just popped into my news reader from ZDNet.
Well, you really believe that Flash is synonymous with the internet and frankly, anybody who wants to browse the web and experience the web’s glory really needs Flash support. We were very excited about the announcement from Windows Mobile, adoption of Flash on their devices and the [...]

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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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Recently I have been heavily involved in an on going FlashLite 1.1 based project. Some thing I know my development peers have been extremely jealous of as they bang their heads against the hellish development processes of Flex, Air, ActionScript 3 and Flash 9, not!
One of the most enjoyable features of FlashLite 1.1 is its [...]

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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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Recently I have been involved in some FlashLite 1.1 development that requires a certain level of online data interaction. With memory being at a premium on Mobile devices I have been spending many a spare moment looking at efficient data transfer methods.
Stepping back into FlashLite 1.1 (flash 4/5) scripting has been a nostalgic experience. The [...]

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After stumbling upon Cameron Moll’s Blog and site, which is pretty much focused on mobile web design and development, I downloaded his eBook, “Mobile Web Design”. Now that I have finished reading the book I thought I would provide a review. Book reviewing is not something that I have done before, but I hope the [...]

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FOTB 07. What can I say. Incredible. First off let me say a very big thank you to John Davey. John did a great job, I can only guess the amount of organization involved in Flash on the beach, the speaker list and session line up were brilliant, and the shwag was top draw, both [...]

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This morning I received an email from Apple letting me know I could now log into the iPhone Dev Center

The iPhone Dev Center will provide quote.

iPhone Reference Library
Access documentation, guides, and release notes on developing web applications and content for iPhone.
Web Development Guidelines
Get the latest development techniques on mobile browser-based user experience design and development.
Sample [...]

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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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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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Bill Perry has posted a very interesting presentation, the subject is Creating and Selling Your Mobile Flash Content. You can down load the presentation from Bills Site.
Creating and Selling Your Mobile Flash Content
I also noticed Bill has a document linked at the very top of his site, under the banner “Addressable devices for developers”.

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Continuing my work with Web Development for Mobile Phones and other Devices I updated my very simple early FlashLite 2 tests that I showed on in screen shots on my N95.
In those posts I discussed the problem of detecting screen rotation detection on the Nokia N95. I could not get the FlashLite player to [...]

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