For those looking to start development of Flash on the Android Platform using the Android SDK 1.5, there are a couple of good tutorials shared by Mark Doherty.

Flash Development with Android SDK 1.5 - Part 1

Flash Development with Android SDK 1.5 - Part 2

You can also follow the review of the HTC Hero, which is the first Android device supporting the Flash Player.

In an announcement by Adobe and their partners HTC, the companies shared the news of extending the Flash Platform to Android devices today.

The Flash runtime for Android is supposedly still an optimised version for the mobiles, but the first in line (the HTC Hero) would have the complete capability to run Flash videos as well as support streaming audio and ActionScript 2.0. Adobe does mention extending the full Flash player to the Android platform, but that would only happen sometime in near future. My guess is, with the Flash Player 10 for smartphones soon being available in beta for us during MAX this year, this Android smartphone should not be far behind.

What’s also a great for developers is, HTC is now a part of the Open Screen Project initiated to reach the maximum platforms and devices with the Flash player.

You can view this video showing demos of websites on the Android handset. It is very clear from the video that a lot of the web based Flash content which was earlier not viewable on devices would now be available. A clear instance are gaming websites like AddictingGames or Kongregate whose games (AS 2.0 based) would now be playable without porting it as a separate mobile build.

The Flash Lite Developer Challenge Nominees were announced yesterday with 3 nominations in each category -

LifeStyle
Globe Trotter - IGameStudio (India)
Little Spender - Ribot (United Kingdom)
Florin: Personal Finance Tracker - BlueSkyNorth (United Kingdom)

Game
Fickle Blox - BlueSkyNorth (United Kingdom)
Cubic Republic - IKS Mobile (Poland)
Radical Tube - Virtue Studio (Brasil)

Infotainment
Microfilm - Flash Cell (United Kingdom)
Games Flash - Christopher Caleb (United Kingdom)
Synctur - Inpockit Informacion Portable (Spain)

Social Networking
Mr. Postman - Ian Moreira De Andrade Silva (Brasil)
Twittle - Flash Widgets (USA)
Big Game Huntr - Mobile Radicals (United Kingdom)

Sports
GolfBox - Little Big Ideas (Denmark)

You can now go online and vote for the nominee you think qualifies best for the People’s Choice Award. Congratulations to all the nominees.

Liz Myers releases these nice and simple video tutorials on packaging your content for Adobe Distributable Player using Adobe Mobile Packager.

These are the Series #2 tutorials and you can find them on Adobe TV as listed below -

01 Overview

02 Set-up Your Computer

03 Making Your First Packages

04 Symbian Signing

05 Windows Mobile Signing

06 Icon Boot Camp

Forum Nokia released the "Flash Lite Components v1.0 beta” The components includes installable .mxp files with instructions and full source code.

“This resource file includes six Flash Lite components; Button component, Contacts component, List component, Media data component, Popup component, and Scrollbar component. The components can be used to develop applications to devices supporting Flash Lite 2.0.”

You can download here.

vivek

This great news on the Distributable Player comes via Mark Doherty from Adobe.

The Distributable Player download support has now been scaled to include 13 countries and 31 devices. The player currently allows over the air download of the Flash Lite 3.1 player.

You can read the complete post including the country and device list on this link

Coming up this month is an online webinar from Forum Nokia covering the Open Screen Project Fund. This one hour online presentation will also include specifics about packaging, signing, and submitting Flash Lite applications to the Ovi Store.

Webinar Subject - Open Screen Project Fund — Funding for Developing Flash Lite Applications
Date - Thursday, 28 May 2009
Time -  9 a.m. San Francisco, 12 p.m. New York, 7 p.m. Helsinki
Check your local time here

Webinar Description -

In this webinar, Forum Nokia's Bill Perry will cover the Open Screen Project Fund, including how developers of Flash from Adobe applications can apply for funding; highlight applications that have been funded; and provide tips for submitting ideas. Attendees also will learn about a key component of mobile application development: distribution. Specifics about packaging, signing, and submitting Flash Lite applications to the Ovi Store also will be covered.

There are numerous opportunities for Flash Lite developers to consider -

Open Screen Project Fund $10M

The $10 million Open Screen Project Fund grants funding to developers who are creating applications and services for mobile, desktop and consumer electronics devices using the AdobeFlash Platform. Initial areas of focus for funding include: entertainment; social networking; productivity; gaming; news and information.

• Premium placement of the winning application in Nokia’s Ovi Store, where consumers will find the best Flash applications for Nokia devices
• Paid travel to demo the winning entry at a Nokia-specified event
• Review by Nokia for possible preload of the application on future Nokia devices

Calling All Innovators contest, cash prize more then $250,000

Developers that receive funding can use the money to create applications for submission in the Flash category of Forum Nokia’s 2009 Calling All Innovators contest. Total cash and prizes are worth more than $250,000 (USD), and include immediate business opportunities with Nokia:

As an incentive for you to submit your Flash application to the Calling All Innovators contest, there is an additional cash prize of $10,000 USD for one winner that also received money from the Open Screen Project Fund.

Contest entries will be accepted until midnight (EST) on 30 June 2009

Publish on OVI

OVI will give developers direct access to Nokia's global application market known as Ovi Store. The self-service tool can provide an easy way to distribute and monetize applications and content to Nokia users all over the world. Supported content types include: J2ME, Flash applications, widgets, ringtones, wallpapers, themes, and more for Nokia Series 40 and S60 devices.

Developers can learn more about this opportunity on https://publish.ovi.com/login

The Flash Lite Developer Challenge which was announced by Adobe during the Mobile World Congress on 16 February 2009, is now coming to a close with 12:00 GMT on 31 May 2009 being the deadline.

There are big cash prizes to be won along with free copies of  the Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection and an opportunity to secure premium placement in leading aggregator catalogs such as Thumbplay and Get Jar. The prizes are US$ 15000 for independant categories and a grand prize of US$ 30000.

Developers who are looking at submitting content can do so in 6 categories -

• Games
• Lifestyle
• Infotainment
• Sports
• Social Networking
• Most Innovative Application

With time ticking away, the contest would soon end within the next 14 days. So if you haven't submitted content as yet, please do so and share your innovation with the world.

Adobe Max 2009 dates announced. This year Adobe MAX conference will be held on October 4-7, 2009 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in California. 

check out http://max.adobe.com/ for more details.

vivek

A new article published in Adobe Devnet "Advancing mobile storytelling with Adobe's distributable player solution"

Have a look here http://www.adobe.com/devnet/devices/articles/flashlite_max_app.html 

vivek

Hi everyone,

We are excited to revamp our IndiMad group branding and in process of that we launched our new IndiMad logo and Badges which is created by Hemanth :)

You can use this badge to make our IndiMad group popular and display in your blog or website as a member of IndiMad group :)

It's simple, just paste this below code.

<p><a href="http://groups.adobe.com/groups/80baac7d50/summary" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.indimadgroup.com/images/indimad_btn.gif" title="IndiMaD Group" border="0" /></a></p> 

Vivek

The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain is one of the biggest events in the mobile world.  Anyone related to the field of wireless, be it mobile developers, technology leaders, OEMS, carriers, aggregators, mobile tools providers etc, all descend on to this little world in Fira Barcelona to discuss the next BIG thing in Wireless.

This year it was no different. Several announcements were made, with app stores leading all the way. Adobe made several announcements as well.

Adobe, has largely been responsible in living upto it's commitment from last year in focusing on the Mobiles area. This time in MWC, Adobe made several announcements which developers may find extremely exciting and motivating to take it forward as a platform to look forward to in 2009.

So what were the key points announced during this event? The answer is several of them and they are all listed below -

• Flash shipped on 1 Billion devices (cummulative): Flash Lite shipped on 40% of all new handsets in 2008

• Public beta of the Distributable Player Solution - the ability to distribute mobile apps with the latest Flash Lite 3.1 runtime. The regions include US, Spain, Italy, UK and yes India too (reason to celebrate because devs can now monetize from their apps)

• Launch of Featured Applications from leading content providers at m.adobe.com (live now)

• The Flash Lite Developer Challenge - a contest with cash prizes totaling $100,000

• The Open Screen Project Fund - a $10 Million market development fund open to developers worldwide. YOu are invited to submit your ideas, which will then be taken up by the OSP commitee

• Palm joining the Open Screen Project and intends to ship with Flash 10 devices

Nokia too announced their OVI Store, allowing developers to publish and sell their content through Nokia's global application market.

Mariam

Hello Everyone and glad to have you as a part of the Indian Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group (also called IndiMaD).

Starting today, is this great new tool called Adobe Groups provided to us by the team at Adobe for maintaining user group activities. I think it's absolutely great and I hope that you too will find it very useful.

Adobe Groups will enable us to make it an accumulative place for reading the latest user group activities, like blog posts, member works, contacts, code snippets, important links, events and everything relating to the technology we focus on..i.e Flash on mobiles.

Apart from being a member of this user group, you will also be able to search for more user groups within your city/country to join, as well as become remote members to user groups worldwide. So basically, this small tool will provide you with a world of information relating to various technlogy groups.

We look forward to receiving your ideas, thoughts and suggestions, and have it recommended to friends around you. Looking forward to building a great community with Adobe Groups.

Cheers,

Mariam