Hopefully by now you’ll know that I’ve been producing a video series recently called “Developing with Flash Lite”. I have an episode coming up that will be looking at the various genres of “stuff” that you can make with Flash for mobile and devices, and I’d like to showcase some cool stuff from the developer community.
If you would like to help me out and get some exposure for your product at the same time, please email me (dale@moket.com). I’m looking for:
Standalone applications – games, tools/clients, social media, streaming media apps
Browser content – embedded Flash mobile content, Flash inside widgets (e.g. Nokia WRT widgets with Flash)
I have some content from some of you already through the Moket Content Network, and if we’d like to use it then we’ll get in touch with you directly to ask your permission. Please consider this opportunity, and I hope to hear from some of you soon. Thanks!
Just received some market data analysis from Canalys this morning, regarding the smartphone market in Q2 2009.
Smart phones continue to shine as one of the brightest spots of the technology industry, with shipments growing despite the global recession. Innovation in interfaces, design, applications and promotion continue to excite consumers, which, in contrast to the PC industry, is helping to keep average selling prices stable. The rise in data traffic seen by mobile network operators is finally generating a return on their investment in broadband capacity and will drive further infrastructure expenditure.
It’s interesting to note the comment about network operators finally generating a return on investment from mobile data. This was a point that I raised in many meetings and presentations about 5 years ago when talking about why Flash and other rich, data-centric applications would be an important piece of the revenue puzzle for operators. Seems as though it’s taken a little longer than expected, and of course some monumental shifts in consumer education through the introduction of game-changers such as the iPhone. Read More
Mark is obviously enjoying his new HTC Hero device There is a twopart extensive post over on his blog going through some basic Android SDK development in regards to using the Flash (Lite 3.1) standalone player on the device to launch applications.
Mark IS an engineer at heart after all, so take a look if you would like to get started with Flash on Android and the HTC Hero.
The 2009 Adobe MAX conference in LA is less than 7 weeks away now, and things are really getting pulled together to make this a great conference for attendees and speakers alike. I’m really looking forward to it as it’s likely to be my only overseas trip this year, and I’ve been missing those long haul flights so much Seriously though, attending and speaking at MAX for the past 4 years has been a real highlight for me professionally as well as personally, and I get so much out of being around the dev community and Adobe-ans for a week or so.
I just wanted to quickly draw your attention to the sessions that I’m involved with over the course of the conference. There’s literally hundreds of opportunities to learn and engage with the conference over the 4 days, so I encourage you to attend and check out the dull range of sessions and speakers.
Developing and Distributing Mobile Applications – Sunday Oct 4th, 9am-5pm
I’ll be running this full day workshop to take attendees through various processes, features and considerations of developing for the Flash mobile platform, and also the final piece of the puzzle with distributing your applications.
Multi-screen Streaming Video Bootcamp (BYOL Lab) – Monday October 5th, 2.30pm
Learn how to use standard Flash Player features with Flash Media Server to deliver your video content seamlessly to consumers across multiple platforms. In this lab, we’ll cover recommended workflows, encoding guides, and distribution options for the desktop, mobile devices, and the digital home. I’ll be assisting Adobe Platform Evangelist Tom Krcha with his presentation.
Multi-screen Development Bootcamp (BYOL Lab) – Wednesday October 7th, 1.30pm
Dive deep into development and design techniques for multi-screen applications built with the Flash Platform. You’ll create a scalable cross-platform application using common assets and Flash Player features and learn how to package and distribute it anywhere from desktop computers and mobile phones to the digital home. I’ll be assisting Adobe Platform Evangelist Serge Jespers with his presentation.
I’ll be uploading the second part next week, which covers creating a play-head and progress bar, playing back at full-screen and also accessing meta data from the FLV video.
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