tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-160557702012-01-02T18:44:02.815+05:30The Flash on Mobiles Hub!Mariam Dholkawalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04841799439344791594noreply@blogger.comBlogger971100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16055770.post-2127282923197961932008-08-20T18:55:00.003+05:302008-08-20T19:50:15.405+05:30

I have shifted my mobile blog to a new location - http://www.mariamdholkawala.com/mobile/. My present blogger account will now be obsolete, with no updates coming up from here.The new blog seems to be working fine so far, but do leave a comment if you find it faulty somewhere.Mariam

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If you plan to attend MAX in North America this year, you can refer to this website which will provide you with useful local information such as ways to move around SF, sightseeing places, dining places and more.This website is the united effort of the local Adobe User Group Managers.Mariam

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(via Ryan Stewart) Om Malik recently conducted an interview with Adobe's CTO Kevin Lynch about the present happenings at Adobe and their vision for technology at large. I've placed the mobile excerpts of the interview in the post below -Om: What about Flash in mobiles? I know there have been some efforts to marry Flash at the interface level with mobile operating systems like Java. Lynch:

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I recently came across this article which bullets down 50 DONT'S in a game. Although this is more from a web gaming perspective, I'd thought I'd narrow it down to a mobile game experience with a few points of my own.40 Ways to Make Us HATE Your Flash Lite GameAdd loud and annoying sound effects to your gameDon’t add sound control options so we have to listen to your loud and annoying sound

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With the launch of the Project Capuchin Swf2Jar packaging tool last week, Sony Ericsson has increased it's momentum for supporting Flash Lite related developer activities. There has been a consistent launch of new tutorials, guidelines and sample files for developers to whet their hands and develop content.1. New Flash Lite 2.0 tutorial, presenting phone data as dynamic animationsThis tutorial

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I recently read this very interesting article on designing websites for mobile phones. The article focuses on usability aspects of mobile websites with some snippets of HTML and CSS code. The good point about the article is that it does not focus on any particular mobile OS or technology making the tips are completely neutral in description.Some more supporting links that I came across about

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A new mobile jobs site - mobiledevjobs.org, was launched earlier this week. This site is a community initiative by Scott Janousek for getting together job opportunities for mobile professionals at one single place.The idea is great because it covers different technologies and platforms like Java, Symbian, Flash Lite, Android, iPhone etc all under one roof. Within a few days of being launched, it

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Flash Lite Headers Euro 2008 game got a great mention on PocketGamer by Stuart Dredge."It's a simple yet addictive game where you choose a team, and then play one-on-one matches of header tennis, where you have to position your player in the right place to bop the ball into your opponent's goal.The characters look very nice, and it's the kind of game we always imagined Flash Lite would be good

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While the world sits and watches the semi finals between Russia and Spain, I blog about a sport which I have only recently started watching. Soccer was never one of my favorite sports...infact living in India I only witnessed an dizzying cricket furore and concluded that the world consisted of no other sport (ok..now that was a little exaggerated :)), until recently when I got to watch a soccer

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Forum Nokia recently conducted a Code Camp Competition for attendees of their Code Camps wanting to build Web Runtime (WRT) widgets and Flash applications.The Grand Prize winners of the competition are -Flash: CityLite by MSCorp of Coral Springs, Florida. A mobile guide to night life, restaurants, and entertainment venues in Latin American cities.WRT: Flickret from Mark Caunter of the U.K. A

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(via Bill Perry) A great announcement makes its way through for developers as Qualcomm and Adobe get together to integrate Flash into the BREW Mobile Platform.Till now the Flash Lite BREW extension limited developers to only the Verizon Wireless network, but with the new BREW Mobile Platform, all the major BREW handsets supported by BREW carriers worldwide can be targeted. This means we now have

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(Via Mark) Chunghwa Telecom in Taiwan recently launched their new Channel Me service powered by Flash Cast. This service is supported on Series 60 and Windows mobile devices including the HTC Diamond.Currently they have an online representation of the service with selected channels. The actual service also includes channels such as news, weather, sports, travel, dining out amongst others.This

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The ICE 08 Conference that took place in Toronto last week had a panel discussion on the challenges and future of the mobile game industry. The iPhone and Flash Lite were a part of the panel discussion with a few positives being discussed. The panel were asked if the Flash Lite platform offered the solution to mobile's current woes. Grunwoldt from Nokia said "I think it's a really interesting

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(via Bill Perry) Adobe is now inviting developers to participate in Flash Cast channel development for Dashboard, which is the Verizon Wireless version of Adobe Flash Cast.Dashboard will provide an ecosystem for Verizon Wireless consumers to enjoy rich and interactive services by leveraging the proven content authoring tools and workflow that Flash developers are familiar with. The wide range of

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(via Alessandro) Forum Nokia now has now extended to India with a dedicated website. We can now read the latest news, testimonials, and India related events right here.Mariam

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And then the Flash on iPhone news never ceased to disappear. The latest to appear this morning was that Adobe has already started development of the Flash Player for the Apple iPhone. This revelation was made yesterday by Adobe's chief executive officer, Shantanu Narayen during a conference call."We believe Flash is synonymous with the Internet experience, and we are committed to bringing Flash

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(Via Ryan Stewart) Beet.tv recently released two interviews related to Flash Lite. The first is with Rhett Woods, director of Mobile Expression at Adobe, who talks about the cool stuff that the technology can do along with some videos. The second is with Briank Frank, of the Mobile Applications and Solutions at Adobe, who talks about the history and growth of the Flash Lite technology.Both videos

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Apparently the most expensive iPhone is ready for sale for a whopping 120,000 euros!!! Sure you are wondering what makes the phone so expensive... it is 318 diamonds of 17.75 carat weight!!!! And it has a name too - The iPhone Princess!!!!!An Austrian designer has redesigned the iPhone for a Russian businessman in diamonds and 18 carat gold making it one of the most expensive iPhones in the

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Playyoo has interviewed another game developer and this time it happens to be...me! In this interview, I have tried to share my impression of the Playyoo platform and the Flash Lite technology in general.Fortunately for me I met Paolo Dotta, one of the important Playyoo guys, during MAX in Chicago last year and I was quite impressed with their team's presentation of the Playyoo platform and what

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This comes from Bill Perry, Flash Lite has been shipped to over half a billion devices and is expected to reach 1 billion by 2010. Now thats what I call an impressive number!!With 500 million devices we have Flash Lite across regions + with varied implementations + big developer community = Interesting content, happy clients and content consumers.You can read the complete press release hereMariam

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Coming next month to India is ActionScript Expert Colin Moock for an extensive 1 day training workshop of ActionScript 3.0.This event is aimed at all levels of developers right from the beginners to the intermediate. The workshop will not cover expert-level topics so advanced ActionScript 3.0 programmers are unlikely to encounter new concepts, but can attend for a refresher on ActionScript

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Widgets and Flash Lite Code Camps are coming up in April for the APAC region. This is organized by Forum Nokia and will be held at Sydney, Singapore and Bangalore.Moket will be the guest speaker at the Sydney code camp. The Bangalore guest speaker is still to be decided.Code Camps have become immensely popular in recent times where a developer can immediatelt start coding and sharing his apps

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This news comes via Alessandro, there is an interesting article titled - The Chumby is Open but Not for Business, in the the NewYork Times today. This article is a really good read for those who want to know more about this consumer electronic device.I only wish it would be available in India for developers like us to get our hand on it.Mariam

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Miikka of Aniway has written a great post on the Flash Lite gaming market by talking about his past and present development experiences.Aniway has been a part of the Flash Lite community since 2004, and this post is the first in the series planned by them.Mariam

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This news comes via BusinessWire, QNX Software announced a powerful Adobe® Flash-based framework for accelerating embedded UI design on mobiles, running on Freescale's multimedia processors, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.The announcement and showcase included networked multimedia frameworks and multimedia engines in a Flash-based human machine interface (HMI) highlighting the power of

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The International Mobile Game Awards ceremony concluded last night in Barcelona, with the winners of their contest being announced. The giant winner was Ideawork3D's Metal Gear Solid Snake that won the Grand Prix and the Operator's choice award.The other winning games included -Best licenced IP - Furby Island by LemonquestBest 3D Game - One Sequel by Digital Legends EntertainmentBest Gameplay -

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Today at the Mobile World Congress, Sony Ericsson launched it's first mobile phone with the Windows Mobile 6 operating system. With a full QWERTY keyboard and a 3-inch clear wide VGA display, this phone looks very slick.Says Rikko Sakaguchi, Head of Portfolio and Propositions at Sony Ericsson, "Our vision for the XPERIA™ X1 is to deliver a seamless blend of mobile Web communication and multimedia

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After a not so successful run of the its N-Gage device, Nokia reportedly has filed a new design patent for a mobile gaming device. The device looks a lot like the PSP with fold-out wings to make the device feel comfortably in the hand, as well as allow normal use in the 'phone' mode.Looking forward to seeing the actual device when it is launched. You can read the full patent here.

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Adobe launched the Flash Home and Flash Cast 2 technology at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today. It stated that major content providers like the MTV Networks, the Nasdaq Stock Market, eBay and Dolce & Gabbana are using Flash based mobile products and solutions to extend their brand.Adobe Flash Home is a new mobile application for home screens while Adobe Flash Cast 2 is the next

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Bill Perry has asked a very relevant question relating to the distribution of Flash Lite content. Looking at the stages of maturity Flash Lite has passed through, today we see many developers contributing to the technology, and each developer may have a different priority for distribution.When I started working on Flash Lite, the priority I saw amongst most developers was to freely distribute

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Forum Nokia has launched a new competition for Series60 developers. This is the first contest which starts today (January 17) and will end by February 15. They plan to host a new programming challenge every month with awards for the best solutions provided."S60 supports multiple different runtimes and programming languages. The aim in this months competition is to come up with the glue that

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Check out this really cool video of a game called Crayon Physics from Kloonigames.I was really impressed by the user interaction it offered in its game-play and physics used. There is also an IPhone version of the the same game known as IPhysics. The IPhone version is supposed to be even more addictive than its PC version!

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There is a new article available on the Adobe Mobiles and Devices Developer Center - Ten Tips to help you develop better Flash Lite games. This article is not specific to any Flash Lite version, and talks about game development right from 1.1 through 3.0I authored this article after interacting with a set of Flash PC developers in India wanting to try out Flash mobile gaming. While interacting

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As Frame27 gears up to accept new Flash mobile games for review, I have also been included as a part of their team of reviewers. Being in the game development industry for a substantial time, I think this is a good way to share opinions and thoughts about games being developed by other developers.I'd like to thank Scott Janousek and Felipe Andrade for coming up with this suggestion and making me

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Bill Perry has uploaded a detailed breakdown of the forecasted installed base of Flash Lite enabled devices by region, country and version.This list is very useful for those in the business of content development and publishing because it gives an analysis of the consumer market one might want to target.Whats interesting to note is APAC has the highest base of forcasted Flash enabled devices...

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I came across a very interesting site this morning called TryPhone which gave me a live hands-on experience with mobile phones. The site states that it could be the one stop for those wanting to purchase a new phone but not having enough access to its features or for those who have already bought a phone but don't know how to use it.On going through the website, I noticed that the handsets are

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This news comes via Kathy Charneco, who mentioned the launch of a series of mobile podcast series hosted by John Agger from the Adobe Mobiles and Devices team.Watch or listen to this podcast series aimed at creative professionals new to mobile, as Adobe host John Agger walks you through tutorials on mobile content creation. The Adobe Mobile Podcast series is created in partnership with Terry

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2007 has gone by leaving a lot to reminisce about, but has made a promise of a 2008 with unexpected yet interesting learning experiences.The last year started on a good note with the launch of IndiMAD (The Mobiles and Devices User Group in India). The intention was to get all the Indian Flash mobile developers on one platform to know each other and interact. I also organised 2 UG meetings in

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A recent report by Park Associates says that consumers still want to see casual games on mobiles.The report says that gamers don't see mobile phones as platforms for advanced gaming. More than 30% of those interested in mobile gaming want sports, action, and adventure games on portable players. 29% want to play driving or flying games and 27% want to play shooting games on portable devices, the

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The Christmas Elf Dance game that was launched last week for Nokia handsets, has now been ported for the Chumby and is now available as a widget under their Games CategoryThis is a first widget launched and I hope to launch more in the coming months under the banner of IGameStudio.

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I've uploaded a couple of casual arcade game on Playyoo...some of them are from my old catalogue and some I developed recently. So you can log on to Playyoo to play them and of course rate them good ;)

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My Flash Lite Christmas game called the Christmas Elf Dance has been up on the Nokia Software Market since a couple of days.The game is a simple memory arcade game where you have to remember the sequence of the lights as they brighten up and then use the arrow keys to follow the sequence to make the elf dance. You can check out the game on the URL here.

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This news comes via Trading Markets.com -Bsquare announced that it has purchased NEC Corporation of America's Adobe Flash Technology Consulting and Distribution business for an undisclosed sum. The company noted that as a result of the transaction, it is now a worldwide-authorized distributor of Adobe Flash Lite software, which supports Adobe Flash Player functionality for mobile and embedded

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Debashish Paul sent me a link to one of the apps developed by his friends and himself using Flash Lite and the N95 Accelerometer API. The content interaction is made using sensors.Watch Flash Lite in action with the N95 Accelerometer API

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Wait to know what IGameStudio is all about because its launching soon...

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Bangalore is to witness a first of its kind RIA Developer Conference next weekend with Mrinal Wadhwa along with a couple of other members of the Bangalore Flex User Group, putting up the whole show.The conference is called initRIA and is scheduled for 16th December 2007. It aims to provide a platform for RIA enthusiasts around the country to interact and learn.They are currently inviting speakers

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Adobe.com website has donned a new look today with the website looking more sleeker in its gray and white look. The look is also reminiscent of the Developer Connection launched earlier during MAX.The website seems to be adapted for wider screens, with expanded space for better and clear usage. Navigation looks clean, with content taking center-stage! And not to forget the small search box which

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Tower Of Giza is one of my first games that I have submitted for the Playyoo Contest and the 2007 Flash Lite Game Contest. The game is a time based game which requires the player to build a pyramid within a decided set of years or face the wrath of Pharaoh Khufu.The game is attempted with a 3D look and feel and an emulated "swapDepths" feature (absent in Flash Lite 1.1).The game is developed in

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A Flash Lite 2.1 Music Client was launched yesterday by developers BrainBuxx and Arvato Mobile. The application offers a shop to download music, and has an integrated music player. The application currently supports 200 mobile phone models.The news comes in from a German blog.

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The Flash Lite market awareness sure seems to be going strong in India with Adobe reaching out to developers and rest of the non technical people via the Kamla Bhatt Show.Debashish Paul of Adobe, Bangalore shares his YouTube application built with Flash Lite 3 in a series of videos. He talks about the basics of Flash Lite, its penetration in India and its proliferation globally, especially from

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Nokia has announced a Technology Innovation Competition for start ups and midsize companies. By seeking out technology inventions in four design and HW focus areas, the aim is to further drive the aspects of miniaturization, enhanced performance and green technologies in the area of consumer devices. The four focus areas consist of:1. Mobile Multimedia Experience: specifically driven by audio

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Nokia announced the winners of the Open C Challenge during the Nokia World 2007 in Amsterdam yesterday. Open C allows development of applications and services for the S60 platform in a faster and more cost-efficient way. The Open C Challenge was a contest sponsored by Forum Nokia, along with Orange and the Symbian Developer NetworkThe winner of the contest is an application called MobiTubia

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Flash phones don’t always mean Flash Lite enabled phones…and there are companies out to prove that!Flash phones are actually a service offered, to make calls directly from the browser using VOIP. Unlike the earlier installable applications like Skype or Gizmo who provided the same services of making calls, Flash phones don’t require any installation as they run directly off a browser….and they

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December couldn't have started on a better note than this....the Flash Lite 3 Developer Edition is now available for download via the Adobe Labs! This news comes via Bill Perry and is seen as a starting point for some great content being developed with this new version of Flash Lite.I installed it on a Nokia N95 and N73 as soon as the news got out because the installer did not require me to

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Sometimes I read or come across interesting market facts or news which I would like to share with the rest of the mobile community. For this, I have created a small space on the right hand panel of my blog for a segment called Mobile Facts.I will try updating this as often as possible but to start with today - It is great to know that the big mobile game bubble is still floating well, with

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Clickgamer has started a campaign this holiday season to give back the best it can to the planet. Starting today through mid January, Clickgamer is giving away free downloads of its game - Snowed in 6, Deep Freeze.If the number of free downloads reaches 1 million, Chillingo, the company behind Clickgamer, will donate $ 10,000 to a non-profit climate change organization. The game runs on all

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Recently I'd been working on an application that required Flash Lite to import data from a CSV file format.CSV stands for "Comma Separated Value". It is a standard means of exchanging data, and virtually all spreadsheets and databases can import data presented in this fashion. This is what a CSV spreadsheet will look like when opened in Excel.For Flash Lite to import data from a CSV file format,

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Last week I had the opportunity to talk to Marco Lapi, admin of GotoAndPlay.it, about Flash Lite and mobile gaming. For those who may not know, GoToAndPlay.it has a huge resource of tutorials, sample files, and game files for web and mobile game developers.Our conversation of last week has been compiled into an article and published on their website. To read it you can follow the link - http://

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Wishing you a Happy, Safe and Prosperous Diwali!

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An article on gaming careers was released in today’s edition of Education Times in the Times of India newspaper in India. Written and compiled by Praveena Lakshmanan, it talks indepth about the console and mobile gaming industry for new aspirants or for those just wanting to know more.It was good to know that I was considered a crucial part of this industry in India and got an opportunity to

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With Flash Lite 3 being announced at MAX, it was great to see the features this new version was offering to the Flash Developer Community! I was present at Bill Perry's session on Flash Lite 3 Development and got an insight on the great content development a developer can challenge himself with.Amongst all the noise made about Flash Lite 3 supporting video (FLV), it was great to see a live video

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We're into Day 2 of MAX with almost half the day over...and I already seem to be missing it! The conference is going to be over tomorrow and then the wait begins for next year to attend the MAX NA 2008 Conference in San Francisco (the location of the next MAX has been announced...Yay!)I just finished speaking at my final session for this year on Multiplayer Gaming with Flash Lite and I really

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Playyoo is a Flash Lite mobile games portal aiming at developers to join them and help them populate their portal with good quality Flash games for handhelds. Their idea is to get game developers to freely upload, exchange, rank and comment on the games created by other developers. They announced their portal during MAX yesterday and already have developers buzzing around the content they can

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MAX in Chicago is probably one of the biggest Adobe shows that we might have seen in the past years. With more than 4000+ attendees, you can hardly feel the expanse of the McCormick Conference area. Space is utilized for developers to move around, network and connect and not just learn technology in their session rooms.This year Adobe have also placed an AIR Park, which not only allows developers

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Adobe has launched a newly renovated developer resource center called the Adobe Developer Connection. This developer center not only looks fresh with its new interface but also provides better and easier navigation. You can browse by technologies (alphabetically), resources, features, SDKs and more.Make sure you check it out here.

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Adobe MAX 2007 is about a week away. This year in addition to the Flash Lite and Mobile sessions, there will be a special session : The Mobile and Devices Boot Camp, on Wednesday 9AM-12:30PM.The managers of the seven Adobe Mobile and Devices User Groups have put together the event with some great content and presenters. The idea behind the "MaD Boot Camp" is to allow anyone interested in Mobile

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With only 16 days left for the Adobe MAX conference, its necessary that our session planning leaves us with space to attend as many good presentations as we can. There are 9 great mobile sessions happening at MAX along with a 3 hour Boot Camp for all the Flash and mobile developers/designers out there. Make sure you attend them because they are planned across the 3 days in a manner that one can

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What is it with Google Alerts and and really old news being sent out even today?This afternoon I received a Google Alert talking about a tie up between Macromedia and Calsoft Labs. Reading the news got me smiling because it spoke about embedding Flash Lite on handsets in India and the other countries. And then it got me thinking...why Macromedia and not Adobe doing the Flash Lite deals....

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As a regular player of Flash games on the Miniclip Gaming Site, I was always facinated by the creativity with which they developed and managed a mammoth database of games (260 games so far). At the same time was curious to know how they managed to sustain in times of hardcore downloadable PC games in the likes of those available on MSN, Shockwave, or Yahoo.So when the Gamasutra News Portal

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Launched recently on the Adobe Developer Center is a new article called Packing Lite: A mobile media interface design primer, written by David Carroll, professor of media design at Parsons The New School for Design in New York City.The article has an indepth explaination of testing and tranferring Flash Lite content on Nokia S60 handsets. It is extensively written to cover content testing in

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Giving new Flash Lite developers a headstart in creating games, Riyadh Al Balushi has written an indepth tutorial on creating a simple game using Flash Lite 1.1.The tutorial is very informative and talks of various steps involved in Flash Lite gaming.

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Action or adventure based games may require characters to move around the screen. We use the Key Object for interacting with the game characters. While keypresses and keyreleases respond quickly when the swf file runs on the desktop, these events work differently for swfs running on a mobile. A valid reason is that mobiles have lesser processing speeds thus making it slower for them to recognize

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That time of the year has come when I will be spending more time creating presentation files than game files. Yes, the Adobe MAX Conference is another 3 months away and I’m really excited to be going there this year too. Preparations are already underway and I want to make sure that I am able to do a great if not a good presentation :DThis is my third stint at a MAX conference as a speaker and it

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Following all the talk on blogs and websites about a recently touted multimedia computer phone, I finally gifted myself a Nokia N95 last weekend... and was I the envy of all around me!My first expression after getting a grip of the phone was - "What can I do to inaugurate the phone?", and the answer was very simple....to do what I am good at, ie. develop a game in Flash Lite and play it on the

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I have been following the Flash Lite content spill on Handango and have observed a number of points which I hope will get noticed for the benefit of the community and the technology –1. Pricing of content needs immediate attention. While browsing through the content I noticed that while there are some games priced at a range of $5-10, there are some also priced at $0.50. The pricing of wallpapers

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There seems to be a splurge of new technologies being introduced in the recent months by the biggies. Just when serious debates had actually begun making rounds comparing Microsoft’s Silverlight technology to Adobe’s Flash technology, yesterday there was yet another announcement made by Sun Microsystems at the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco. Sun introduced the JavaFX platform focused

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I had the opportunity to meet and hear one of the biggest author and entrepreneur in the field of gaming - Ian Livingstone.Ian was in Mumbai celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the world famous icon - Lara Croft, a character he and his team have been associated with since a long time. The videos of the Tomb Raider Anniversary looked really awesome!His presentation titled "Life is a Game" spoke in

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In this short story covered by the icNewCastle, Paul Lamonby of BlueskyNorth (a leading Flash Lite content development company) talks about the growth of his company, his team and their plans for game releases with operators across Europe.One of their expected launches is a game called Fickle Blocks on the Orange Mobile Phone networks.

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Airtel which is India's largest telecom service provider today launched Flash Lite content via their WAP portal - Airtel Live!They have a upto 4 pages of Flash Lite games listed which are priced at the Indian Currency of Rupees 50, - a good enough rate for single A titles. Currently the games are supported on S60 2nd Edition and 3rd Edition phones. For those users holding older devices,

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With the launch of CS3, Adobe has a new article up on their Dev Centre Introducing the Adobe Device Central CS3 authored by Winston Wang, Senior Product Manager for Mobile Authoring at Adobe.The article lists the features of the Device Central and also gives interesting points on the challenges and promises of working with mobiles.

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The Creative Suite 3 will be one of the better launches by Adobe this year, especially for mobile content creators like us.Many developers currently using the Flash Lite emulator might have thought if the code they're writing will run with the same consistency and speed on the device as it would on the PC. And 90% of the times this proved to be true.But with the Device Central, developers will be

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I read this crazy news today which stated that E-bay had the exclusive Apple iPhones up for sale on their website, and nearly 23 people fell for the scam by agreeing to purchase the phones for large sums. The highest bidder of this transaction agreed to pay $1125 for 1 of the 6 phones that had been put up for sale.This is probably one of the best examples of the frenzy that the iPhone has got the

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Via biskero, Sony Ericsson announced new Walkman phone W580 at CTIA which are Flash Lite enabled - W580i and W888c.The slim music phones are said to deliver a full walkman experience along with gaming, imaging and fitness applications.Says Najmi Jarwala, president, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications (USA) Inc. "The W580, the latest in our extensive line of Walkman phones, is exceptionally cool

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According to the news on GearLog"Youth-oriented mobile carrier Amp'd got their first smartphone today in the Motorola Q - but this isn't quite the Q you know from Verizon and Sprint. Amp'd has completely redone the user interface in Adobe's Flash Lite, into an animated carnival of ... well, it looks a lot like Amp'd's animated Amp'd Live interface on their other phones. The Q also plays Amp'd TV

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Sometime back I had posted an entry talking about Iguana Mobiles launching Flash Lite content in Singapore. Well, they are finally out with the games on their website and this time the games can be puchased online in countries like Brunei Darussalam, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan.The games are downloaded through GPRS over WAP on the users phone. It feels good to see

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The MAX Conference in North America is going to be held in Chicago this year during the first week of October. The good news for developers living in other regions like Europe and Japan is that they are going to be having their own MAX too.Adobe wants developers/designers to suggest topics for this conference. Please visit http://www.adobemax2007.com/topics/ and suggest a topic.I guess the topics

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Our working closely with the Iguana Mobile and the Nokia team to launch our Flash Lite content in APAC finally bore its fruit this week when I received a mail saying that our games for Nokia S60 and wallpapers/screensavers for Nokia S40 had launched.The games would be available though the Nokia Content Discoverer(NCD), which is an on-device content portal displaying a catalogue of varied wireless

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My new article on Porting a J2ME game to Flash Lite went live on the Adobe Developer Center today.This is the third of my articles after the ones done on Persistent Data : Shared Objects and Best Practices for Mobile Game Development.This new article is a real view of one of our J2ME games which we ported for Flash Lite on the Nokia S60 handset. It talks of the challenges we faced during porting

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Adobe and Viacom's MTV Networks are showcasing the new mobile media applications on mobiles at the 3GSM event this year according to this press release.According to Greg Clayman, Senior Vice President of MTV Networks' Mobile Media - “The MTV, VH1, COMEDY CENTRAL and Logo FlashCast channels that we are jointly demonstrating at 3GSM are indicative of the rich experiences that can be

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Omega Mobile is in news once again! Yes....but this time its for a launch of its winter themed wallapapers and screensavers called Hyper Screenz.The content is dynamic and changes according to the time of the day, signal strength or battery level. Omega has not mentioned the handset it is targetting but says it is open for anybody who wishes to license and deploy the content. They also mention

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Recently I read a small brief written by Anders Borg, CEO and Consultant for Abiro and spoke about the AJAX technology and its possibility of coming on mobiles.According to Anders "The main competitor to "AJAX" solutions is no doubt Flash Lite yet most (all?) mobile widget platforms run on top of MIDP, which is a benefit compared to Flash Lite, that's typically embedded (and hence must come with

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Omega Mobile, a leading mobile content developer has launched a new Flash Lite Application specifically for the 3GSM Conference to be held in Barcelona, Spain this year.The application is called " 3GSM Conference Buddy" and is created for the Wireless World Forum by Omega Mobile to be distributed to the conference attandees to stay connected with others at the conference. W2Forum wants to

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Infoworld conducted an interview with Adobe's President and CEO talking about all the plans that have been envisioned for the worldwide developer community.What is really interesting is Narayen's views on Flash Lite and the to be launched Flash Cast technology. What he also mentions is in the future Apollo, the runtime will also be mobile-aware.An very interestig interview to read.

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2007 started with a bang with the PocketGamer’s site listing Flash Lite as one of the trends to take off this year.Then it was Eli Dickinson of Fierce Wireless' predictions. He figured Flash Lite as one of the foremost technologies to take off in 2007 in a big way. And the final great news to come was the news of Flash Lite 2.0 winning the Developer.com contest in the Wireless/Mobile Development

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Sony Ericsson had introduced Flash Lite 1.1 on many of its Walkman series and i-mode handsets. Till now it was an untapped area, but now its good to see that they are coming out with development guidelines for their handsets.This whitepaper gives an overview of Macromedia's Flash Lite implementation on Sony Ericsson mobile phones. It also highlights the issues faced by developers and has a

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Vodafone is slated launch new service at the CeBit Trade Show in Hanover which will enable users to upload videos taken from their phone cameras to a Live portal via MMS or WAP. Seems like a great news especially since the service will help the users monetize their efforts.Another interesting service they announced to launch in March is one where users can build their own Flash mobile websites.I

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I have been thinking about blogging since a long time and I am glad I finally got to doing it today!Yes, another one added to the list of the already existing ones, but what's the harm. I enjoy writing, indulging in knowledge sharing, creating tutorials and interacting with people, so this seems to be the best medium for me to do all of this.Getting down to business, through this blog I hope to

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