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Archive for August, 2008

Sony Ericsson: Flash Lite 2.0 Developers’ Guidelines Optimization updates

International Mobile phone major Sony Ericsson published an update to the Flash Lite 2.0 Developers’ Guidelines. The optimization guidelines appendix presents advice, screenshots and code snippets in the following sections: Memory management Image rendering optimization Transparency Optimizing animations Placing objects on the screen ActionScript and some common pitfalls Working with symbols Working with text Limitations [...]

Sony Ericsson Project Caphucin getting started tutorial

Sony Ericsson published the first getting started tutorial for Project Caphucin which outlines how the Project Capuchin API can be used as a bridge between Java™ ME Platform and Adobe® Flash Lite™. This tutorial contains four example applications, with implementation instructions, screenshots and code, to try: packaging Flash Lite in a MIDlet – Clock example [...]

Presidential Poll Tracker by USA Today

USA Today has a cool RIA built with Flash that follows the polls in the US presidential race, state by state and for the entire country. This application provides historical results for each poll, and also graphs them over time to see how the race is changing.  This is a nice, simple application that displays [...]

Adobe Announces Photoshop.com Mobile Beta

Via Bill, Adobe Announces Photoshop.com Mobile Beta. A new addition to the Photoshop.com family, Photoshop.com Mobile beta, which is a rich Adobe Flash based mobile application that offers camera phone users an easy way to upload, view, and share photos using their Photoshop.com account. Photoshop.com Mobile runs in the background on the phone and allows [...]

Flash Lite Game: Tetris

Via Alessandro & flashliteonline.com, a Flash Lite game: Tetris

Forum Nokia article about Flash Lite’s Tips and Tricks

Via Forum Nokia has another great Flash Lite resource, Flash Lite: Tips and Tricks. “This document lists some useful tips and tricks to assist in creating content and applications using Adobe Flash Lite on Nokia platforms.”

Flex 3 for Dummies

The Flex 3 for dummies is book is out..   and I hope that it is as good as any other book of the Dummies series! Its available at Amazon for $ 16.85…  Try visiting Amazon to purchase the book.

Yahoo’s Design Stencil Kit: A Generic Mobile Design Assets for Wireframing and Paper Prototyping

Via Mariam, she came across an article that discusses designing websites for mobile devices. It includes some talk about usability guidelines on mobile and offers code examples to explore. Mobile Stencils Are Here To Stay There is also a download to a Yahoo Mobile Stencil collection for wire framing and paper prototyping applications: The stencil [...]

What NOT To Do While Developing Flash Lite Mobile Games (Repost)

Via Mariam: “Things NOT to do while developing Flash Lite mobile games”, based from an original “50 Ways to Make Us HATE Your Flash Game” article: 1. Add loud and annoying sound effects to your game 2. Don’t add sound control options so we have to listen to your loud and annoying sound effects 3. [...]

Flash Mobile Demo Videos on Adobe.com

Via Bill, Adobesetup a new mobile demos page on the Adobe site which has 8 different video walk throughs of Flash mobile applications that have been created by various companies. They are: Bacardi, Mightyverse, SpongeBob SquarePants, Finetune, Sony Pictures, Johnny Walker, and Nasdaq

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