Bill posted his recent “Flash Across Screens” presos from FITC 2008 (Toronto), Adobe Korea Flash Lite Global CP Event, and “Evolving Mobile Experiences” preso from Mobidec 2007 over at flashdevices.net.

Flash Across Screens - FITC 2008 (Toronto)

Flash Across Screens - Adobe Korea Flash Lite Global CP Event (2008)

Evolving Mobile Experiences - Mobidec 2007 (Japan)

You can find a cumulative list (2003-2008) of all presentations by Bill here.

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Bill posted a breakdown of the Flash Lite devices in US and Western Europe, recently.

This information is pulled from mmetrics and is broken up by total Flash Lite devices in 6 regions (US, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK), as well as number of device models and number of addressable devices by platform (Nokia S60, Nokia Series 40, Sony Ericsson and BREW).

You can download the PDF (3 pages).

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Recently, via Mark Doherty’s blog, I had noticed that Thomas Joos had created a mobile guide for the ongoing fitc.ca 2008 conference in Toronto this year (and also for FITC Amsterdam, previously this year).

I thought it was interesting to note the progression of mobile guides that have been created for the FITC conference (Toronto) over the past years, including:

2005 - (Flash Lite 1.1 - Creator: Scott Janousek, Target Device: Nokia 6620 or equivalent S60 device)

2007 - (Flash Lite 2.x - Creator: James Eberhardt, Target Device: Nokia 6680 or equivalent S60 device)

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Via Bill:

Getting Started with Flash Lite
Adobe Mobile Program Information
Sell your content!

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Chumby Industries has a recent case study posted on ADC. This is good high level read on how Chumby Industries is leveraging Flash Lite 3 within their consumer electronic device.

Here is a quote:

“Adobe Flash is the only stable, reliable product on the market to offer rich, colorful animation along with built-in security measures for media access. Rather than create a new suite of tools, we can leverage the sheer strength and expertise of the Flash community for content development.”

Stephen Tomlin, CEO, Chumby Industries, Inc

Download the Chumby Cast Study (PDF).

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Device Profile Update #4 is now released for Adobe Device Central CS3.

Bill Perry has some installation comments, which you should read first.

Essentially … it boils down to installing the updates in “proper sequence”, (especially, if, say you’re just now catching up with Flash Lite and have a recent install with no previous updates. You’ll first want to install Profiles #1-3, before #4).

Also, it’s important to note this:

Before downloading Update #4, you must first download and install the Flash® Lite™ 3 Update for Device Central CS3.

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A new Adobe DevNet article: “Ten tips to help you develop better Flash Lite games” is available from Mariam.

“Mobile games are a big business with many talented developers creating compelling device content. Although most developers can write effective code, create interesting graphics, and test their games successfully, it is always helpful to review the best practices to follow—especially considering the wide variety of handsets on the market.

In this article I’ll provide tips to make your game design and development experience better and easier. My intention is not to provide an analysis of how to improve the game development process, but to share some tips that I picked up while developing Flash Lite games.”

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On Dec 18th, there is a scheduled e-seminar session entitled: “Exploring Flash Lite Video Capabilities for Mobile”, which you pre-register for here.

Speaker: Giorgio Natili is a Forum Nokia Champion and this e-Seminar is co-sponsored by Forum Nokia

The aim of this eSeminar is to teach developers how to integrate video media in mobile applications using Flash Lite.

In addition, a comparison of capabilities offered in Flash Lite 2.x and 3.0 versions will be explored to demonstrate the richness of the new video features offered in the latest release of Flash Lite.

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Just an FYI, but I believe there is still Flash Lite 3 training going on in San Francisco this week (you’ll need to email to see if it’s the case (adjust the email or it’ll bounce), … or perhaps Bill or someone from Adobe will comment below).

Below is the courseware overview.

Adobe Flash Lite 2.x/3.0 Mobile Application Development Training Course

Audience
The course will be targeted at mobile developers with a review of Flash basics. Course will continue to use Flash CS3 and Device Central as the main authoring tools.

Course Length
This will be a three-day course.

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Via Ralph Hauwert: Microsoft has officially licensed Adobe Flash Lite (version 3.x) to run across Windows Mobile devices (and also Adobe Reader LE, BTW). Very cool!

Although from the release, it looks to be browser based (at this time) … even, so … this is very encouraging news for developers and early adopter clients who have dabbled in the Windows Mobile world with Flash Lite 2.x.

Documentation overall platform support from Adobe was always a bit lacking compared to early days of Pocket PC on Flash. Now that Microsoft is on board as an official licensee, we can expect that to change! (Check out Bill Perry’s (Adobe MaD) post)

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