Thought I’d post about how things are going with this new adventure called full-time employment with a telco, after a month of settling in and getting things up and running. As well, there’s been so much to talk about over the past month in the Flash world that I’ve kind of just held back a bit until all the who-ha has died down, to see what I really think and where things are headed for me. Read More
Posts Tagged ‘Flash Mobile’
One month into the new job …
Posted 13 Feb 2010 — by Dale
Category Mobile, Technology
Category Mobile, Technology
New Training Video – Building a Flash Mobile Video Player (Part 1)
I’ve just uploaded another new episode in the “Developing with Flash Lite” series – “Building a Flash Mobile Video Player (Part 1)“. This episode covers loading in external FLV video into a Flash Lite 3 application, plus controlling the playback and volume.
Building a Flash Mobile Video Player (Part 1) from Adobe Flash Lite on Vimeo.
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.
New book for Flash Mobile Development now available
After a lot of time and hard work, it’s great to finally see the new “AdvancED Flash on Devices: Mobile Development with Flash Lite and Flash 10” book available on Amazon (and I’m sure soon many other outlets). The guys have done a great job in putting this comprehensive resource together and I’m looking forward to getting hold of a copy shortly.
Here’s a quick synopsis of what is covered:
- Learn how to create sophisticated mobile applications and very cool experiences across a range of mobile platforms (Nokia, Sony Ericsson, BREW, Windows Mobile, Apple, and Google).
- Learn best Flash and ActionScript practices that work across platforms and implementations
- Learn all the latest advances in the Flash Lite platform
- Learn about Flash Frameworks, including device widgets and U.I. components
- Learn how to take advantage of Adobe CS4 extensions for mobile devices
- Learn how to how to use Adobe’s latest version of Device Central
Confirmed Speaker for Adobe MAX 2009
I’ve been fortunate enough to be invited again this year to speak at the Adobe MAX conference in Los Angeles. This will be my 4th MAX conference and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed participating and presenting at each of them. This year I’ll be running the Day 0 full-day training lab for Flash on mobile devices, “Flash Lite: Developing and Distributing Mobile Applications”, as well as assisting Serge and Tomas in their multi-screen topic sessions. I know there’s going to be some exciting stuff for mobile at this year’s event so I’m very much looking forward to coming over for the conference and also for the opportunity to catch up with so many of my Flash mobile colleagues – always a fun bunch of people to spend a week in the US with!
Gamasutra features gaming on Ovi – Moket game used as example for Flash
There’s certainly been some “interesting” press around the launch of Nokia’s Ovi Store in the past 24 hours. Some good, some not so good. Unfortunately I think the “soft launch” Nokia were planning opened a little “harder” than expected and some early experiences of Ovi have perhaps not been as favorable as they could have been. Nevertheless, Ovi is here and represents a great opportunity for Flash mobile developers in the long term.
Over on Gamasutra at the moment, there’s a (sponsored) feature on the various gaming experiences that can be found on Ovi, covering Flash, Java, Symbian and N-Gage. Moket’s soccer-skills game “Palleggio” is featured as an example of Flash Lite games on Ovi.
