Flash Lite in Nokia Devices

Company Confidential

Adobe® Flash™ LiteIn Nokia devices

Over The Air,

London 4.-5.4.2008Riku Salminen

•Flash Lite

•Authoring & Packaging

•Distribution

Examples of Flash Lite applications

Various types of mobile applications

Series 40Platform

Nokia

S60Platform

Symbian

Maemo and

others

Other OSPlatform

S60 native C++

C++Java

Java™ MEMIDP on CLDC PP/FP on CDC

Flash Lite Flash Lite

Browser & Widget Browser + Widget

about Flash Lite

•More than 300 million devices withFlash Lite out there

• More than 300 phone models

• Same development tools as with Flash• Currently Flash Professional CS3 – built-in

support for Flash Lite 1 - 3

•Adobe Device Central• Downloadable updates (phone models)

•“Creating applications with Graphic designer skills”

Symbian C++ application

Flash, Flash Lite and Symbian native applications compared

FlashPlayer

Flash LiteStandalone

Flash LiteBrowser plugin

Flash LiteScreensaver

Flash LiteStandalone

Interaction with the device

•Phone call, SMS, MMS

•Fscommands• Locale, date, time

• Vibration

• Network, Signal level

• Battery level, Charge

• IMEI code, OS

• Launching applications• Device specific syntax

•Keyboard events

•Sockets• Basically anything can be done…

Flash Lite 2.x(available since late 2006)

• Based on Flash Player 7

• ActionScript 2.0

• Complex types of apps and content

• Support for device video, audio, images, saving data, XML

Flash Lite versions

Flash Lite 1.1(available since early

2006)

• Based on Flash Player 4

• ActionScript 1.0(*

• Simpler content type

• Support for basic data loading

• No support for device video or XML

(available since late 2007)

•Flash Video (FLV) support

•Improved web browsing ability with support for most Flash 8 content

•Faster performance

•Flash Lite

•Authoring & Packaging

•Distribution

DemoFlash Lite Authoring in CS3 + Device Central

•Overview of Flash Professional CS3

•Overview of Adobe Device Central

•Creating a Flash Lite application

•Flash Lite

•Authoring & Packaging

•Distribution

Packaging your content

• S60 devices • . SIS file• Symbian signed or Self signed• You need a launcher application if you want to

have an icon on the desktop• Free and commercial solution available

• Series 40 devices • Currently only as .SWF file (can be DRM-

protected)

• Opened trough Gallery

• Notes• Several new possibilities are being evaluated

currently to provide a single solution for both platforms.

Delivering your content

•As online purchases• Copy protection is an issue

• Several channels available

• Nokia Content Discoverer

•As freely downloadable software• Revenue from advertising on the sites,

shareware or trough registration fees

• Several sites available

Where to go from here?

•http://community.forum.nokia.com/•Discussion boards•Forum Nokia Wiki•Blogs

•http://www.adobe.com/mobile/•Software updates•Technical resources•Examples

•Communities•Googlegroups: Flashmobilegroup•Yahoogroups: FlashLite

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