Pocket Flash

For those of us who wondered how Rockstar we’re going to better San Adreas, and / or compete with clones like Crackdown and Saint Row, we can now see for the first time what Rockstar have in store for us this October.

Whatch this amazing trailer here

Well there goes my plans for today, get Apollo here now.

There are also a few sample Apollo applications that can be downloaded from Adobe Labs too.

Renaun Erickson has posted the keynotes from ApolloCamp

This pretty much sums up what I’ve been thinking since I watched Christopher Brichford’s Apollo presentation

“But the idea is that Apollo builds on tools and technology that is already out there and move it further into Desktop RIA and phones (Apollo, Flash list).
Interesting note about reasons for choosing WebKit as the HTML engine. It was small, had a mobile version, Nokia has ported it”

Surely it’s only a matter of time before we get to develop Apollo mobile apps?

Sneak peak of Spiderman 3, this is a LONG clip, and it looks fantastic.

Mike Chambers has posted his code from 360Flex to build a very simple WYSIWYG HTML editor, that shows the Apollo File and HTML API’s
Example Code for 360Flex Apollo Session

Christian Cantrells’ “Video : Apollo APIs Session from 360Flex” is available here
which shows lots of example apps and API’s in Apollo

If you are interested in any of those things, you MUST watch this video.

Does this mean I can now claim a Wiimote on my expenses?

I’m reaching fever pitch about Apollo,

I just spotted this from the bbc tech news site.

“$1bn mwahahaha” points little pinky at mouth

Well the cat’s out of the bag about, ‘what’s in the box‘.

“On March 27, 2007, at 3:30 p.m. Eastern time, Adobe Systems will host a webcast of the official launch of Adobe® Creative Suite® 3, live from New York City. To participate, bookmark this page and join us back here on March 27. ”

At last the gap between Flash / Flash Lite developers and a professional .sis file has been bridged. Orison have just announce Swf2go, the all in one package that enables developers to create a .sis file from one application, including:

· Professional SIS Installer and SWF Launcher toolkit
· Supports versions 1.1, 2.0 and 2.1 of Adobe Flash Lite Player
· Supports Symbian S60 platform editions 1st, 2nd & 3rd
· Auto sign SIS installer with provided certificate
· Supports developer certificates
· Built-in Intelli-Launch Technology
o Automatically detects and starts SWF with the latest on-device Flash Lite player
o Shows an info-note with URL to download Flash Lite from adobe’s website, if Flash
Lite is not detected on user’s cellphone
o Allows to launch multiple Flash Lite applications simultaneously *
o Flicker free SWF launch
o Guaranteed launch with Flash Lite 1.1 (on S60 1st & 2nd Editions)
· Command-Line compiler support
· Supports build automation by XML project files
· Quick compile SWF2Go Project file with right-click context menu

Interestingly there is a place for a readme.txt file which could be substituted for a privacy statement required by symbian signing if you application uses and of the following features:

Bluetooth to connect to other Bluetooth-enabled devices
Sending SMS messages
Sending MMS messages
Making phone calls
Making a connection to the Internet
Allowing you to add or edit contacts
Reading existing information from your contacts database
Recording sounds using your phone’s microphone

Criteria CON-02 -
“Mode 1: Privacy Statement is displayed at the first ever launch of the application and after user confirmed the statement, it will not prompt again for subsequent runs.”

The app generates .sis for s60 1st 2nd and the all important 3rd edition, for Flash Lite 1.1, 2.0 and 2.1

Well that’s my guess anyway.

Why? here’s what happened today-

I read Alessandro Pace’s post about Device Central at Biskero.org and re-opened Device Central to do some mooching around (see screencast) I also noticed the welcome page has Flash, Illustrator and Photoshop icons to open new documents in each. When I clicked Flash I got this message.

A bit randomly I was looking at the new Adobe icons at John Nack’s site as I wanted to see the difference between the Flash and Flash Lite icons.

And finally I saw Richards post about Adobe’s viral marketing video ala youtube linked from this site ‘What’s in the box’

I my opinion the most likely six are listed below, judging by the colours on the side of the box in the video, and bit of common sense (I’ll miss you ‘freehand’, and ‘go live’…well I just never liked you)

- Photoshop
- Dreamweaver
- Illustrator
- In Design
- Fireworks
- Flash

I’m not 100% about fireworks, but as it’s a country mile better than image ready I reckon it’s likely to make it in their.

We’ll just have to wait and see.