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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Adobe has launched a Flash Mobile Gallery with some examples of the types of experiences you can attain with Flash Lite (including wallpaper, screen savers, games, and applications).

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Mark posted about Adobe MAX 2008 and his thoughts on this years planned events. MAX 2008 is taking place this year in San Francisco, Milan, and Tokyo.

My top 10 wish list directed at Mobile (in no particular order):

  • Another Mobile and Devices - BootCamp, please.

  • Session(s) from the Mobile and Devices Engineering team

  • Flash Home - is there a roadmap to get developers on board?

  • Bring in more Mobile Partners to showcase on the floor! Not just OEM’s … but also aggregators, content providers and the like (with heavy floor discount for the smaller players)!

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On Sunday, I am leaving to attend Forum Nokia Developer Days and a bit of CTIA Wireless in Las Vegas.

Should be a fun time, especially since I missed out on Mobile World Congress.

Anyways, I hope to see a few familiar faces there (as well as new ones).

For those unable to attend … I also plan to do as much moblogging, qik’ing, flix’ing, twibbl’ing and twhipst’ing as I can (given battery, network access, and GPS coverage).

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Via Bill Perry (Adobe, Mobile and Devices): there is a new devnet (aka ADC) article on Developing Flash Lite applications with dynamic layouts.

“In this tutorial I describe the process I used to develop the dynamic layout of the Bacardi® Mobile Cocktail application.

I’ll cover how to react to environment changes, such as the current time of day, and how to implement automatic Stage size and orientation switching.

Automatic adjustment is especially important for devices such as the Nokia N95, because it is capable of changing its resolution. For other devices, you will learn how to manually alter the orientation of your application to mimic that functionality.

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Forum Nokia has an article on Flash Lite tips and tricks article for S60 devices (about 4 pages long, or perhaps 40 tips).

Most (if not all) of the tips can be applied across platforms (with a bit of common sense). A lot of these most of us have seen before and are practicing.

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Forum Nokia is dedicating some much needed love to the Flash Lite community over at Forum Nokia this month.

So when you get a chance go check it out.

Already, Kuneri ((Kuneri Lite)) and Moket have been featured on Nokia.

Very cool. Check it out this month!

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This advert where “Bilgehan” (over at Kuneri Lite) utilizes his unique talent of handrawing an N95 using Microsoft Paint and a mouse … is simple awesome-ness.

IMHO, it puts the iPhone “baby music” commercial to a bit of shame (even though it’s not an N95 commercial per se …)!

Spread the word and dig it.

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Here is an evolving project for Flash Lite called Mxim which aims to deliver text and images within a framework.

Mxim Framework is an application development framework for hand held devices. It is a benchmark architecture for serving content on hand held devices.

Mxim Framework facilitates developers to port Web 2.0 experience on mobile devices and concentrate on application logics rather than worry about memory and processing issues on small devices.

It also facilitates web developers to port their websites from the desktop environment to mobile devices without sacrificing the richness of their content.

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Faisal has released a new set of Flash Lite components (called “Oxygen”) over on Forum Nokia’s Flash Lite wiki which can aid in concentrating on the core of Flash Lite applications instead of worrying about battery, signal, and other indicators.

Currently, there are 4 components for reuse, including:

• FPS-Meter
• Mem-Meter
• Battery Meter
• Signal Meter

The components are available for both Flash Lite 1.1, as well as Flash Lite 2/3.

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