Pocket Flash

I only wish I had the time to put in as much effort as guys like Dimitry

Well that will make a few peoples Christmas.

See Bill Perry’s Blog for more details, though one thing to notice is the EULA prohibits redistribution, but hey it’s a massive step in the fight direction. Being able to point end users in the direction of a FREE Flash Player is a much easy sell to potential users of Flash Lite content.

All we need now is a device detection script and we’re set.

Pocket marketing have been granted funding to develop ‘mobisite’, a social networking application which will of course be developed in Flash Lite.

The spec and architecture are on the drawing board as I type, and I’ll be blogging the whole process over the next 5 months from idea to fully signed .sis.

Although I expect to see Flash Lite 2.0 appear over here in the UK during this time, the intention is to stay faithful to 1.1 development whilst future proofing with a 2.0 version at the same time. And you never know you may even see a web based interface trialled in Flex.

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.

I’ve been tryin to avoid AS 3.0, as I’ve been knee deep in Flash 4 syntax for the past two years, but over the past week I’ve managed to get caught up with Flex 2. Quite frankly I’m in love, not having Flex builder available for mac has put me off until I read this post by Josh Buhler and installed the SDK to use with Xcode and within 10 minutes I had my very first Flex application. So after a few breezos and a weekend of trawling through the docs on Adobe Flex dev centre I came across Flash 9 public alpha for AS 3.0 preview over at Adobe Labs.

It’s been around since the end of July but I haven’t seen it until now.