The tutorial Flash Visions will again use Sony Ericsson’s component set to build complex interactions in Flash Lite. The artilec will give you the step by step tutorial to tell you all about it.
Step 1: Open Device central and select to create a Flash type document.
Step 2: Select a generic Flash Lite document template to start with. for our walk-through we will select the following settings.
Step 3: Drag the Toolbar component to stage and then delete it. It will now be available in the library. ( you can also directly drag it into the library if you wish)
Step 4: Now we will prepare the code for our walk-through demonstration. Create a second layer on the time line and name it as “actions”. This will be the top most layer, where we shall put our logic. Label the first layer as “UI” and order it below the “actions” layer. This is where We shall put our graphic assets if any. Then create another layer called “SoftKeyLabel“, between the “actions” later and the “UI” layer. On the “SoftKeyLabel” layer we will have three textfields. Left softkey label, Right softkey label and Middle softkey label. The middle softkey label will be a dynamic textfield.
Step 5: Now we start with the code. Below is the code that goes into the first frame on the “actions” layer.
Via Flash Visions, the site posted a new Flash Lite tutorial, tell you how to use Flash Lite to create a Fifa 2010 country selector.
The tutorial will be looking at how to build a selection list using Single-row list component from Sony Ericsson. This list will demonstrate populating the list of the FIFA 2010 countries and then selecting one from the list using the 4-way/2-way navigation keys. For the purpose of this walk-through you need to have downloaded the component set provided by Sony Ericsson, available as a mxp package for you Flash IDE. You can then install the .mxp package using Adobe Extension Manager. See the image below.
Flash Lite is undoubtedly a feature rich multimedia platform mobile application development. However one thing that still lacks is the support for mobile friendly component architecture naively from Adobe. However all is not lost because Sony Ericsson and Nokia provide some cool components to save the day. With the proper tool-set Flash Lite is just as powerful as Flex / Flash on desktop.
Sony Ericsson’s channels to market, PlayNow™ arena and Fun & Downloads are now open for distribution and sale of Flash content, thanks to our recent simplification of certification requirements which means Flash content does not need to be signed.
Sony Ericsson’s Project Capuchin technology enables you to convert your content in to a Java application (JAD/JAR files). You provide Adobe Flash CS3 or CS4, we provide the rest. Here is the basic procedure:
1. Install the Sony Ericsson Capuchin kit , available for Windows and Mac OS
2. Use the Create Capuchin Application function to turn your content in to JAD/JAR files
3. Submit your JAD/JAR files at submit.sonyericsson.com
4. Within 30 days (typically less) Sony Ericsson will review your application
5. Accepted applications are made available on PlayNow™ arena and/or Fun & Downloads
6. Users buy your application; you make money.
Sony Ericsson has updated his Flash LIte UI Components right now, there has 4 new tutorials demonstrate real applications.These tutorials demonstrate how Sony Ericsson Flash LiteUI components can be used to create real interactive mobile applications and also gives a general overview of Project Capuchin.
The following lists will show the four applications’ details:
ColorizeMyPhone
ColorizeMyPhone is an application that displays a simple interface to change the colours of a Sony Ericsson W890i phone. It is also possible to rotate the phone, illustrating how to control an animation using the UI components.
The MP3 Player application lists MP3 files in the “music” folder on the memory card in the phone, builds a playlist and gives the user possibility to play a selected song or go to next/previous song. The following data is displayed for the song being played:
The Translator application is an application based on the well-known web application service called Google™ Translate. The demo translates a limited number of words from one language to another by accessing the actual web service from Google.
Sony EricssonUI components enable Flash developers to build custom user interfaces in a fraction of the time it used to take, without compromising too much on performance and memory. The components can also be used with Sony Ericsson’s Project Capuchin.
The latest version of the Sony EricssonUI components is 2.1 beta MXP, the updated version fixes a set of known bugs and introduces some new resizing features in the Image component.
Sony Ericsson has released an new version of its Theme Creator software. Version 4.05 is the newest version.
The Sony EricssonThemes Creator tool is a “composer” that allows you to personalize the look and feel of any Sony Ericsson mobile phone by quickly creating great-looking themes based on existing components such as color palettes, sound files, image files or animations.
In addition to Mac support, the updated Theme Creator introduces a built-in image editor, allowing for image cropping and resizing right from the application.
There’s support for emulation of Flash Lite 3.1.5 animations and these phones are now supported: Aino, Yari, Naite, X1 (Windows Mobile)
Sony Ericsson has introduced a set of Flash Lite User Interface components. With Sony EricssonUI components, Flash developers can now build custom user interfaces in a fraction of the time it used to take without compromising too much on performance and memory.
The Flash Lite UI components can also be used with Sony Ericsson’s Project Capuchin, where the UI presentation is designed in Flash Lite while the data logic is provided by Java code.
The release version includes the following components:
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.
