Hey all,
we will be holding the next UK mobile and devices user group meeting on Wednesday 4th November @ the adobe offices in London.
We will be having the Device Central team over to talk about the new version, and give a sneak peek at some of the new features that will be available to you in the upcoming version. You will also get a chance to ask questions, give feedback and talk about feature you would like to see available.
Mark Doherty will be giving a demo of the new work flow for developing iPhone applications, using the flash IDE that was announced at MAX this year, as well as going over some of the new developments we will be seeing for the mobile space in upcoming versions of the Adobe software.
As well as all this breaking news, we will be providing some drinks, as well as the chance to win a full version of CS4 Creative Suite, as well as some more adobe goodies.
Places will be limited, so please RSVP to matt AT ustwo DOT co DOT uk to secure yours, and be entered into the software draw.
Venue :
Adobe Offices
12 Park Crescent
London
W1B 1PH
Tel: +44 (0)207 317 4100
Date:
Wednesday, 4th november , 2009
Time :
7.30pm onwards
download the attached file for detailed instructions on how to get there,
look forward to seeing you all
Matt
The sony erricsson developer center has released a range of pre-made mobile components, which can be easily used in your flash lite projects.
With Sony Ericsson UI components, Flash developers can now build custom user interfaces in a fraction of the time it used to take without compromising too much on performance and memory. Sony Ericsson has introduced a great set of Flash Lite User Interface components, and they are all packed in one MXP file.
These UI components are light, robust, and customizable. They can be easily re-used by Flash developers to rapidly build complex and appealing Flash Lite applications. Sony Ericsson Flash Lite UI components include for example Scrollbar, different kinds of lists, Slider, Softkey, Progress bars, and many other useful UI components.
You can download the components from here, and also browse the rest of the SE mobile dev site.

Symbian have updated their wiki with some information on Flash Lite development.
Here's the blurb from their site:
This article presents the information necessary to get started creating Flash Lite applications for the Symbian platform. It gives a summary of the tools necessary and a basic example, adapted from Adobe's documentation.
You can read the full article here:
http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/index.php/Flash_Lite_Quick_Start

Mark Doherty has posted some interesting news about a new seriers of tutorials for flash lite that are being released.
From the series I expect that viewers will learn how to use Adobe Device Central, discover how to construct a mobile interface and to work with multimedia including FLV. We’ve tried to build out a set of topics that we get most questions on, things like video optimization, performance and the ‘basics’ such as object orientated programming and memory management. The focus will remain on Flash Lite 3.x, although many of the APIs and features work everywhere.
Dale Rankine of moket fame will be presenting them, and i am sure they will help people new to mobile to start making engaging flash based content.
read Mark's article here
check out the vimeo page here

Not specifically mobile related, but shows Adobe's trend towards opening up and integrating the Flash Platform so worth taking a look at and keeping an eye on.
Extract from the press release:
Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced two new Adobe® Flash® Platform open source initiatives for developers, media companies and publishers. Open Source Media Framework (OSMF), part of the project previously code named Strobe, enables developers to quickly and easily build more robust, feature-rich media players optimized for the Adobe Flash Platform. The Text Layout Framework (TLF) will help developers bring sophisticated typography capabilities to Web applications. Both OSMF and TLF are now freely available as open source software, helping content owners extend their online media efforts as they look to create new business opportunities and monetization strategies for publishing on the Web.
Read the full release or read more about it.
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