Mark has posted some stats on the uptake of Adobe Mobile Packager, with the main indicator being that installs have reached 100,000.
Coupled with an apparent increase in player downloads through the Adobe Version Checker that’s a part of the Flash Lite Distributable Player solution, things are trending in the right direction here.
Mark is obviously enjoying his new HTC Hero device 
There is a two part 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.
Mark Doherty has given some extensive thought to his initial impressions of the new HTC Hero Android device, which runs Flash Lite 3.1 in various implementations.
It’s a bit of a breakthrough Android device and the fact that Flash has been so highly marketed along with the device specs is something also note worthy.
Via Mark: Adobe Mobile Packager 1.1 is now ready for download. This version includes some big improvements in workflow and functionality, and makes life a lot easier for Flash mobile developers wanting to package their content for the FL3.1 Distributable Player on selected S60 and Windows Mobile devices.
Liz Meyers has produced an updated series of video tutorials for AMP1.1 which you’ll fund useful in getting started, or updating yourself, with what’s in the tool and how to use it. The video topics are:
Recently Nokia released an update to the Flash Lite 3 player on their 5800 XpressMusic device (S60 5th Edition), upgrading it to 3.1 via their “App Update” mechanism. While there’s been a few bugs found with the new 3.1 update that gets installed, it did signal a departure from the firmware upgrade path for updating on-device software, and certainly makes it a lot easier for device owners to stay up to date.
Nokia have also just added to their ActionScript API (S60 Platform Services) a new Device object , for use only with the FL3.1 runtime on S60 5th Ed (and selected S60 3rd Ed FP2) devices. This is in addition to the Service object, which opens access to APIs such as Location, Contacts and Messaging through native ActionScript 2.0 classes.
The new Device object has two methods, one of which solves a problem that myself and may other Flash developers have had hassles with on Nokia S60 5th Ed touch devices – auto rotation. The methods are
Before you can create Flash Lite applications that use the Device object you must install the corresponding ActionScript 2.0 class files for your Flash IDE:
S60_ActionScript_API_library_1_0.zip%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Flash CS4\en\Configuration\Classes\.as) are located in:<classpath>\com\nokia\lib\Once that’s done, here’s how to use the new Device object:
import com.nokia.lib.Device;
var deviceObject:Object = new Device();
deviceObject.DisableAutoRotation(true);
deviceObject.ExpediteConnection();
Pretty simple huh!? You can get all the info, plus other very useful documentation on the Service object (for access Contacts, Messaging, Location, etc), in Forum Nokia Flash Lite Developer’s Library (1.4) now.
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