Mark Doherty, Mobile and Devices Manager EMEA, posted the following message to the flashmobilegroup.org mailing list, giving more details about the Flash Lite Distributable player Beta that was announced last week.

Click 'more' for full details of the beta, and how to apply to get on it.

Also, check out mark's latest post, over at Flashmobile Blog, where he talks about the latest announcements from max last week in more detail.

Adobe has posted some video tutorials on the new Flash Lite Distributable Player over on Adobe Tv.

The videos are presented by Liz Myers, one of the group members and also one of the speakers from our last meeting in October.

The videos cover the following topics:

• Overview
• Using the packager
• Introducing the appZone
• application signing
• setting up you computer

Click here to link through to these tutorials

Great Job liz!

Today Adobe has announced the new Flash Lite 3.1 distributable player.

The distributable player solution enables developers to create rich applications for the latest version of Flash Lite and directly distribute their content to millions of open OS smartphones providing a better on-device user experience. The solution mimics the successful Flash Player desktop model of content-triggered downloads for applications (rather than web-browsing). Developers and content providers no longer need to worry about whether the device has the latest Flash Lite runtime.

Hartti Suomela from forum nokia has made post of his notes from the Tips and tricks Flash Lite session @ MAX.

For the full post, click here.

Below are a couple of the notes he made:

• Make the app work first (before making it pretty) - remember to also add Exit button
• Optimize your loops - negative while-loops are fastest of all, avoid function calls in loop condition (instead run it once before loop if value does not change)
• Test automation through Device Central- create a device set, and run the same test on all devices (you could also take a screenshot of every test run for examination)
• Device profiling - test the devices with FPS monitors or use the Device Central profiling features
• Extending Flash Lite (will be available Adobe MAX) - possibilities: KuneriLite, Janus, Flyer, Sony-Ericsso's Capuchin, SWF2Go, there is also an article

Congrats to Dale, darren, Scott and alessandro (50+ attendees), wish i'd been able to attend :)

A couple of weeks ago, nokia gave an eSeminar showcasing the ability for Flash Lite to access device API's (such as GPS, sensors, contacts, filesystem etc) via actionscript on nokia handsets running S60 5th edition (check out the new nokia 5800 'tube' touchscreen device). Read the rest of the post for more details, and to view the recording and download sample files.

Just a quick thankyou to the guys at ustwo™ for designing some awesome graphics for the new group site, you'll see them cycle through everytime you hit the summary page.

If anyone else would lke to showcase some work in the graphic area at the top of the page, drop me an email.

Again, thanks to Andy, Dan, Bobby BB and mils for all the help, and also to jimsy for the colour scheme and avatar.

Fresh™ ;)

Matt

Mark Doherty, the EMEA  Developer Mangager @ Adobe has posted some interesting statistics on his personal blog, relating to the forcasted number of handsets to support Flash Lite in 2009.  For a full break down of the figures , and to download the PDFs, visit mark's original post here

Hi all, and welcome to the Adobe Groups UK MaD portal.

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