Adobe Flash Lite

Today I have updated all Flash Lite enabled Nokia phones again, I have added 9 Flash Lite enabled phones are Nokia E55, Nokia E75, Nokia 6710 Navigator, Nokia N86 8MP, Nokia 6720 classic, Nokia 5730 XpressMusic, Nokia 5330 XpressMusic, Nokia 6216 classic, I also have updated the Flash Lite enabled Nokia phones in this page Flash Lite enabled Nokia phones, you can find the newest version.

Sony Ericsson’s Themes Creator tool has been recently updated to 4.0 version, using it to make theme creation process easier than ever.

Version 4.0 is a major new release with a new UI, simplified workflow and wizards, meaning that professional themes can be created in minutes in just three steps.

Quick three-step workflow

1. Select color scheme using automatic color combinations, color wheel tool or import saved color palettes

2. Import background images for standby wallpaper, desktop and navigation screens

3. Select style using pre-defined shapes and screen areas

Three editing modes

1. Wizard – create themes using a four-step workflow

2. Advanced – options to edit or create specific components

3. XML Editor – direct XML code editing

Just now, I have posted the new eSeminar: AgencyNet: Mobile for Flash Developers, the session’s speaker is David Brown at AgencyNet, there is a new customer success stories video at  adobe.com, the video’s snapshot:

David Brown told us the Flash Lite distributable player solution: Bacardi. You can also visit the here to get the newest videos.

Via Flash Mobile Blog, This session will begin at Thursday, April 30, 2009 11:00 A.M. PST. In this session David Brown from AgencyNet will uncover the key factors to consider when developing and deploying content to multiple devices with Adobe’s distributable player solution. David Brown is an extremely talented Flash developer. Topics include Multilingual content, multiple input types, and consistent user experiences across screens.

Sebastian Monte have posted a new tutorial to tell us how to Create a Flash Lite Application with Flash CS4 and Actionscript 2.0.

You can create games, animated screensavers, wallpapers, and maps with Flash Lite. This tutorial Sebastian Monte will teach us how to create Flash Lite application for a mobile phone! The application will send an email to an address you specify.

The following list are 13 steps:

Step 1 Creating a new document
Step 2 Installing a device
Step 3 Selecting the device
Step 4 Viewing device information
Step 5 Creating the Flash document
Step 6 Creating the background
Step 7 Creating the labels
Step 8 Creating the input text fields
       Input text field instance names
       Send "button"
Step 9 Feedback screen layer
Step 10 Feedback box
        Quit "button"
        Actionscript Frame 1
Step 11 Actionscript Frame 2
Step 12 Preparing the server
Step 13 Running the application

If you want to read the complete tutorial and get the sources, you can visit here

The Nokia 6216 classic is a S40  5th Edition Feature Pack 1 and a Flash Lite 2.1 enabled phone.

ugur has posted a new tip, how to disable auto rotation / orientation change from a Flash Lite project for Nokia 5800 (360×640 screen). It simply rotates the main Movieclip to rotate -90 degrees and back whenever an orientation change is detected. It’s not the perfect solution, however will keep you going until Nokia or Adobe fixes the real problem.

The following is the code:

var stageSizeListener:Object = new Object();
stageSizeListener.onResize=function()
{
if(Stage.width > Stage.height) {
_root.main._rotation = -90;
_root.main._x = 0;
_root.main._y = 360;
} else {
_root.main._rotation = 0;
_root.main._x = 0;
_root.main._y = 0;
}
}
Stage.addListener(stageSizeListener);

The P35 is the first iRiver Flash device supporting Flash Lite 3 .

The P35 appears to be a “network media player” (NMP), with support for Widgets, Wi-Fi connection, web browsing, FTP server access, and media playback (video, music, DMB, and FM radio), personal diary (Calendar, Contacts, Whiteboard), and more.

It supports Flash Apps/Games (i.e. Flash Lite 3.x based content). Not sure if the UI is Flash based, maybe (pieces of it). Not sure if the widgets are Flash based (maybe).

It appears to run Windows 5 CE, and has between 8 and 16GB depending on whether you get the DMB Digital TV, or both the DMB and WiFi support.

 Via Scott Janousek

The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic upgrades the firmware to v21.0.025

Changelog

1. Quicker booting up – It seems to let you ‘take control’ a lot quicker than before.
2. As mentioned before you can make the menu button ‘breathe’ when the phone is in standby. It will flash twice if there is a missed call, message or email.
3. Music Player is showing BIG cover art – something that annoyed me in V20 was the fact the cover art was shrunk.
4. No longer switches predictive text off after you’ve used the Full Screen QWERTY keyboard and gone back to the regular keypad.
5. ‘Applications’ has been renamed ‘Apps’ – ‘Music Player’ is now ‘Music plyr.’
6. Still no Widgety goodness on the home screen – it’s as it was in V20.
7. Web Browser isn’t working!!! I will try doing a hard reset I think.
8. Camera wise, there doesn’t seem to be any  image improvements IMO – but it seems to work a little bit quicker.
9. Not had chance to test sound through a headset yet – I have personally had issues in V20 with a Stereo Bluetooth Headset so will be interested to check this out.
10. I think the handwriting recognition is improved – I’ve not used this much, but it seems better.
11. During text entry pressing ‘*’ key brings up a fullscreen selection of characters.

Vodafone has announced the launch of the most awaited Nokia N97. The phone is scheduled to be launched this July in UK. The N97 offers a 3.5-inch touch display with up to 16 million colors nHD16:9 widescreen (640×360 pixels) and a full QWERTY keyboard.

Nokia N97 supports both systems WCDMA 900/1900/2100 as well as EGSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz. It has an S60 5th Edition user interface and equips a Nokia BP-4L, 1500mAh battery. It has a dimension of 117.2 x 55.3 x 15.9 mm and 18.25 (L x W x H) mm at the camera area but it weighs only 150g.

The main highlights of the phone are its following features which include 48GB memory consisting of 32GB on board and 16GB expandable via microSD memory card. It can play back MPEG-4/SP and MPEG-4AVC/H.264 at 30fps, at VGA resolution. The phone plays RealVideo format files up to QCIF at 30fps and supports Windows Media (WMV9) up to CIF at 30fps. Its music player can playback formats like MP3, ACC, eACC, eACC+ and WMA while the Internet browser supports Flash Lite 3.0/ Flash Video.