Via Ugur, Pikkoo has introduced Live Screensavers and partners with Foreca to bring weather-cast of 140.000 locations worldwide to mobile screensavers.
"Using Pikkoo Live Screensavers, mobile users will not only be served up-to-date information anytime, anywhere without a need to launch an application, but also will be able to interact with their screensaver just as any other mobile application. the first live screensaver is launched in partnership with Foreca, leading Finnish digital weather service company. Foreca Live Weather Screensaver will bring up-to-date, geographic-specific weather information of 140.000 locations worldwide to mobile screensavers. Users will also be able to get detailed information from foreca.mobi, the most comprehensive mobile weather service, using the screensaver."
Utilizing Adobe Flash Lite and its own proprietary technologies, Pikkoo interactive Live Screensavers are able to brings contextual content to mobile devices, reducing information delivery to the simplest form possible for mobile devices.
Via Flash Lite Hub, The Bar Chart Component is created styleable bar chart class for Flash Lite 2.0. The component is a classic Flash Lite component, you can download it from here.
with properties for bar colors, background colors, highlights, shadows, data tips, labels, chart height, chart size, chart placement, whether its horizontal or vertical, and other fun stuff. Again, all you need to do is figure out how to get the array of data onto the phone (whether it be loadVars, or whatever). Once it’s on, all you need to do is assign the data to the chart class and tell the chart to draw itself.
Via Flash Mobile Blog, Flash is a significant part of the Web. Although the iPhone has shown a device can be successful without Flash support, the arrival of Flash for Android will be a useful boost for the open-source platform’s acceptance by consumers.
Today’s launch of the HTC Hero in London marks the debut of the first Android smartphone with Adobe’s Flash, as the graphics company gears up for this fall’s wider release of Flash for mobile operating systems. But Adobe had little good news for Apple fans wanting to see the iPhone also get the multimedia technology, Flash on Android supports ActionScript 2.0, whereas ActionScript 3.0 was introduced in 2006 with Flash Player 9.
HTC also announced it joined the Open Screen Project, an industry group created to advance Flash technology and headed by Adobe.
"As the first Android device with Flash, the new HTC Hero represents a key milestone for Android and the Flash Platform," David Wadhwani, vice president, Platform Business Unit at Adobe, said in a statement. "With close to 80 percent of all videos online delivered with Adobe Flash technology, consumers want to access rich Web content on-the-go. The collaboration with HTC offers people a more complete Flash based Web browsing experience today and presents an important step toward full Web browsing with Flash Player 10 on mobile phones in the future."
Adrian Ludwig did a nice video showing off some of the features.
Corona, is a software development kit for the iPhone. It allows less-technical designers to create applications much as they would using Flash. Corona supports a simpler set of programming commands than Apple does, yet it still allows developers to use the iPhone’s built-in accelerometer (which lets you control an app by moving the phone around, rather than tapping on the keyboard) and built-in graphics acceleration.
Ansca is a new software company led by an award-winning team of former Adobe mobile software veterans responsible for the leadership and technical breakthroughs that helped Adobe Flash Lite reach nearly a billion devices.
Ansca is privately funded. The management team aren’t experienced startup managers, but they have years of immersion in Flash culture as Adobe employees. CEO Carlos Icaza has 20 years’ engineering and management experience. He ran teams at Adobe, most recently those that built Flash Lite, Flash Mobile Authoring, and Flash Cast. CTO Walter Luh led the Flash Lite team before jumping off to start Ansca.
Dale Rankine posted a new video tutorial: Developing with Flash Lite. The series covers broad concepts as well as specific how-to code samples and demos, with topics covering beginner, intermediate, experienced and “multi-screen” topics. Some of the topics of upcoming videos include:
Managing screens in mobile applications
Creating Flash mobile content for touch-screen devices
Adobe will release a beta version of Flash Player 10 (FP10) for smartphones. The release will come during October at Adobe MAX 2009. Now, with Flash 10 confirmed to come to Android developers will be able to use “real” Flash and large chunks of their web code for mobile, adding a new dimension to the use of Flash in mobile. On top of that Flash 10 is a quantum leap in performance. Flash Lite, simplified, is a poor version of Flash 8. Between Flash 8 and 10 there’s 3 years of development. Flash Lite has relatively poor graphical performance and it also poorly handles sound.
We are bringing Flash Player 10 to smartphone class devices to enable the latest web browsing experience. Multiple partners have already received early version of this release and we expect to release a beta version for developers at our Max conference in October. Google’s Android, Nokia’s Symbian OS, Windows Mobile and the new Palm Web OS will be the first devices to support web browsing with the new Flash player…
Via Flash Mobile Blog, Adobe Device Central Online update #9 is availabl, the number of device profiles included is 182, and this update contains 57 new device profiles from all regions of the world, many released in the last few months, as well as updates to 125 existing profiles.
Phones Reviews posted the new Apple’s iPhone 3G S phone, the following listed the good and bad.
The good: On the good side they say the iPhone 3G S does add some common mobile phone features such as video recording, voice dialling, and multimedia messaging, while running faster and promises a longer battery life.
The bad: But it’s not all good as the call quality on the iPhone 3G S shows no improvement while 3G reception is still uneven, and the smartphone still lacks multitasking, USB transfer and storage and of course Flash Lite. Hit up the video below and enjoy.
