Pocket Flash

Well it’s finally here (beta anyway) Flex Builder 2 for Mac now availble from Adobe Labs.

I know it’s not Flash Lite but our latest project did involve mobiles and Adobe Flash, so it’s getting a post here.

Blink media asked us to come up with a solution that enabled joe public to Bluetooth the pictures onto BBC’s 14′x9′ Big Screens in Leeds, Bradford and Hull, and required a front-end interface to present the images.

The end result included, a 100m Bluetooth dongle, a cat 5 usb extender, a computer, nifty ftp coding, nifty php coding and 1 lovely Flash application pulling the images onto the screen in a slideshow.

The first use of the setup involved all three cities in a simultaneous event for the Illumination celebration. Images went through a sheep-dip process via BBC event managers, using an online approval/delete system.

BBC were so please with the end result that they bought the system outright as they loved the potential it offered them for, all manner of events (in fact, they have since used it during Hulls’ rugby team promotion celebration) so expect to see it rolled out in all seven cities soon.

It’s been an ongoing nightmare as you may know, but we’ve got some further feedback from Symbian Signed via MphasiS testing house:

“Finally, we have got the feedback from Symbian Signed team.

Thanks. We are looking forward to your reply.”

Without persistent data, how can a Flash Lite 1.1 application know whether the the application has been run previously, or in fact allow the user to select a check box to ‘never show this message again’?