Couple days ago Adobe announced Creative Suite 5, the next evolution of Adobe products. It will be available on April 30th and will include many great features for mobile developers, from the iPhone packager in Flash CS5 to the new Device Central (including geolocation, HTML rendering, multitouch, accelerometer and many other powerful features).
This happens just after Apple unveiled both its iPhone OS 4.0 and its new iAd mobile advertising effort but most importantly excluding de-facto Flash developer to publish their iPhone packaged app on the Apple AppStore. Sad but true.
Flash Player 10.1 will become available in the first half of 2010 and Mark Doherty just published more details about flash Player 10.1 installation and update process.
One of the most important parts of our work with our Open Screen Project OEM partners is to enable the seamless discovery, installation and update of Flash Player 10.1 on device platforms. I know that some have asked questions on this, and so I’m glad to bring you some responses, if a little late.
Read the full post here.
(via Adobe) - Couple days ago at Mobile World Congress 2010, Adobe made a couple of exciting announcements: advancements to the Adobe Flash Platform including unveiling AIR on mobile devices and Adobe joins LiMo Foundation to bring Flash Platform to the LiMo Platform.
Adobe unveiled AIR running on Android OS. Expected to ship later this year, AIR for Android takes advantage of mobile features from Flash Player 10.1 and is optimized for mobile screens. Developers can use Flash Professional to build apps for the iPhone and deliver those same apps to other platforms on AIR, including Android. [...]
Read more here.
A couple of new articles were published recently on Adobe Developer Connection: Design tips for creating mobile RIAs and Delivering video for Flash Player 10.1 on mobile devices.
Design tips for creating mobile RIAs. Mobile-specific websites (mobile RIAs) can be built with various combinations of HTML, JavaScript, or Adobe Flash technology. This article focuses on exploring some of the design opportunities offered by such websites.
Delivering video for Flash Player 10.1 on mobile devices. From providing engaging experiences through rich Internet applications to delivering video, Adobe Flash has revolutionized the way we interact with rich media content on the web. More than 75% of all online video depends on Flash technology. Now that Adobe is bringing Adobe Flash Player 10.1 to mobile devices, you can ensure that all this great content can reach users across devices by taking note of recommendations from this article.
(via Mark) - Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, given the huge investments with the Open Screen Project, will be Adobe's most important event in the mobile calendar. There will be a lot of interest for the launch of Flash Player 10.1 and iPhone native apps with Flash and Adobe AIR®. For this reason Adobe is giving away upon request complimentary passes to the Mobile World Congress exhibition halls. The free passes are limited to two per company on a first-come, first-served basis. Send an email to mwcstaff@adobe.com with your name, company name, and email address.
Join us at Mobile World Congress 2010, where Adobe and partners of the Open Screen Project will preview some of the innovations enabled by the Adobe® Flash® Player runtime for smartphones, smartbooks, and netbooks running popular entertainment, gaming, and video websites. In 2010, more devices will come to market supporting Adobe Flash Player and a new class of application known as "contextual applications." Experience firsthand contextual applications from leading brands that adapt presentation and performance to different application contexts — including various operating systems, platforms, and devices — and user personalization.
Read more here.
Here it is, another great video tutorial from Dale added to the Developing with Flash Lite series: Adobe Device Central CS5 Sneak Peek.
Device Central is going through some significant changes and improvements to cater for a Flash Platform that is maturing and growing across multiple screens. In this episode, we take a look at an early pre-release version of Device Central CS5 and some of the new features particularly around Device Profiles.
FITC Amsterdam tickes are out for sale! It sounds like it'll be a really great event this year with lots of mobile-related sessions!
If you were lucky enough to attend FITC Amsterdam '08 or '09, then you know what it's all about. If you missed it, grab a ticket now before they're all gone. We've sold out the last two years and expect the same for 2010. There is no other event quite like it! The combination of unbelievable international presenters, incredible networking opportunities and the infamous FITC parties, all with the amazing backdrop of the city of Amsterdam, creates a stage set for the unexpected.
• Includes access to the full festival on Feb 23 & 24 (Mon-Tues) and full access to all evening events
• Over 40 educational and inspirational presentations, panels, and workshops
• 4 Tracks of presentations in Technical, Creative, and Business
• Exhibition area displaying Flash-related tools, products & services
• Includes official FITC grab bag
A breaking news came up from the last Boston MaDUG eSeminar (you can find the recording here): Mark announced that Adobe dropped the Flash Lite Distributable Player. The distributable player mission was to enable developers to create rich applications for the latest version of Adobe® Flash Lite® and directly distribute their content to millions of open OS smartphones. It seems that Adobe's focus at the moment is on Flash 10.1 for the mobile browser, Air Mobile for standalone and Flash Lite 4 for the embedded low end devices, plus the iPhone.
I really hope that Adobe's strategy is to develop a more stable and robust solution for standalone content distribution (AIR mobile?). Another weird news is that at the same time also Forum Nokia and Kuneri dropped their online packaging solutions, maybe both news are related?
A sure thing is that there was a little buzz around the news in the flash mobile community and you can carry on the discussion also with: Alessandro, Mariam, Philippe and BlocketPC.
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