Robert Burdick has published some documentation for developers wanting to use the new Flash Lite API Bridge Interface for their Flash Lite or WRT applications.
The two APIs that are available to Flash Lite developers (the rest apply to Web Runtime widgets) are:
- File Upload: This function allows for the upload of a file to a web server using a multipart/form-data POST request.
- New File Service: This function allows Flash Lite applications to embed native applications in order to capture images, videos, and audio.
You’re probably thinking, “Isn’t this what KuneriLite has been doing all this time?”, and the answer would be – basically yes. I’m hoping to get some more info around this solution and post some more feedback shortly, but from looking at it right now and not having tested it out yet, I’d say it’s not a bad way to go for ActionScript guys who don’t want to get into using plug-ins, etc. That being said, I don’t know the road-map for how many more features APIBridge might include in the future. Starting with these two, they have a fair way to go before they match the features that Kuneri offer. But going on what they’ve done with Platform Services (and this is basically following in a very similar model to that solution), Nokia will be following this initial launch up with more features in the future.
