Last night’s London MMUG went very well, I’m sure any photo’s/video’s will make it online shortly. Congratulations to Niqui Merret who won the prize of Adobe Production Studio. For those of you that weren’t there, the winner was randomly selected and called from my mobile phone with a very simple little Flash Lite 1.1 app at the end of the night. Even though this little app was never destined to be seen (god it’s ugly) I thought I’d upload it for anyone starting out in Flash Lite, and for those that would like to see how you can emulate arrays or call phone numbers....

Just reading the latest Sony news following the press conference in Tokyo. It mentions a major firmware upgrade this spring including support for GPS, Camera and VoIP modules/addons, and… Flash in the web browser! Read the article here.

Eric D. threw up a very interesting point in his latest blog post. Asking whether there is a way to accurately emulate the performance of a lower powered, slower device such as a mobile phone. I did a quick couple of tests using the latest Flash Lite emulator and a combination of an FPS speedometer, capabilities test, and a couple of apps designed to slow down your computer’s CPU for emulating old DOS games....

Something I forgot to upload a while back. This “component” allows the user to enter text with T9 (non-predictive) text input without having to use the cursor keys and select to give focus to the textfield, i.e. tapping the 2 key will cycle through “a”, “b”, “c”, “2” and wait a second for it to advance to the next character in the string. Simple concept that we now take for granted on phones, Macromedia created a Flash Lite 1....

First up, eagle eyed Scott has just caught a job vacancy on Monster for a “Senior Product Manager, Flex Mobile Development at Adobe”. Well there’s been some suspicion regarding this matter since Flash Lite 1.1 came out, I asked Mike Chambers this when he came over for the 8-Ball London MMUG special in Sep with a very understandable no comment, but now it looks like the final piece of the puzzle is fitting into place....

Unfortunately I couldn’t make it to 3GSM, but I’ve just been informed that the chief integrator of Motorola has said that we will see Flash Lite on their phones such as the Rokr within 3 months! Motorola were the last of the major manufacturers to cave, but now we have the whole set 🙂 Series 60 news – As we know the new Series 6 v3 SDK contains the Flash Lite player as a standalone and web plug-in....

Big thanks to Adobe for last night’s party in London, we had a good time and it was great to catch up with everyone. Here’s a bit of fun with one of the photos just before we got there, it’s called spot the Tink. Guy seems to be concentrating on some white dots that happened to be floating in front of him. Mike has some good ones too.

I’ve just received an email from Fabio over at elastech.it letting me know that they have just uploaded a new Flash Lite application to the freeware section at flashmobile.it. QuizAndPass aims to test you on several Adobe products including -of course- Flash Lite. This is yet another nicely styled app that is polished throughout, following on from their previous app LitePoker, which also looks and runs great. Head on over to flashmobile....

So following on from the first part of this discussion I was asked to look at creating a 10 day trial Flash Lite application. The theory is sound, you either contact a server and pass it the IMEI (best option), or work out a way of storing some information on how many uses have taken place locally on the phone, either using plain-text, a hash or some real encryption. In Flash Lite 2....

This month’s LMMUG will see Tink and Aral give an introduction to ActionScript 3, and an introduction to Flex 2. So if you’ve downloaded the alphas or not and want to get up to speed drop on by on the 19th. See you there.