By Jules Pagna Disso

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Flash lite

• By Jules Pagna Disso

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• Interacting with many web-based applications
  today leaves much to be desired (compared to
  desktop applications).
• The webs page-based model and lack of
  client-side intelligence can make even relatively
  simple transactions confusing and error prone.
• While the web deployment model has allowed IT
  organizations to reduce the cost of software
  deployment, it has also created a community of
  underserved business users that long for a return
  to the usability and responsiveness of desktop
  and client/server applications.
• As a result, businesses are losing millions of
  dollars per year due to low productivity or poor
  decisions.

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Flash Overview

• Written in C program language.
• Developed by Adobe Systems.
• Cross Platform i.e. different OS.
• Falls under the Multimedia Genre
• Most New Websites use some sort of flash.

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FLASH Quick history

• Flash is a Vector-based web animation tool
• 1993 Jonathan Gay developed, SmartSketch. A
  drawing application, SmartSketch was designed to
  make creating computer graphics as simple as
  drawing on paper.
• 1996, Macromedia acquired the vector-based
  animation software and later released it as Flash
  1.0.

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Flash Timeline

• 1997 Features Support of stereo sound, enhanced
  bitmap integration, buttons, and additional
  programming library functions.
• 1998 Features Brought improvements to animation,
  playback, and publishing.
• 2001 Features Flash 5 was a major leap forward
  in capability, with the evolution of Flash's
  scripting capabilities and authoring
  environment's interface.
• 2002 Features Support for video, application
  components, shared libraries, and accessibility.

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Timeline Continued

• 2005-2007 Additional tools for authoring flash
  content and enhanced capability for video/audio
  codec.
• Present - Flash as a format has become very
  widespread on the desktop market. Adobe claims
  that 98 of US Web users and 99 of all Internet
  desktop users have the Flash Player installed

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Some important features

• Flash players exist for a wide variety of
  different systems and devices.
• Flash content can run consistently on Microsoft
  Windows, Mac OS, and Linux (Macromedia has
  created or licensed players for the following
  operating systems Windows, Mac OS 9/X, Solaris,
  HP-UX, Pocket PC, OS/2, QNX, Symbian, Palm OS,
  BeOS, and IRIX). See also Macromedia
• Flash Lite for Flash compatibility on other
  devices.

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Flash lite version

• Flash Lite is distributed in different versions
• Flash Lite 1.0 (web only)
• Flash Lite 1.1 (applications, games, wall
  papers, etc.)
• Flash Lite 2.0 (applications, games, wall
  papers, etc.)
• Flash Lite 2.1 (verizon, chumby, pocket pc 5.0,
  brew, iriver)
• Flash Lite 3.x

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Flash version - feature

• Flash Lite Implementation
• Standby
• Wallpapers
• Standalone
• Browser
• Others
• Flash Lite 1.0, 1.1, 2.0
• Animation
• Wallpaper (Huge sellers in Japan)
• Ringtones (Huge sellers in Japan)
• Applications and Games
• Websites (40 i-Mode sites in Japan have Flash
  Lite content)

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Different formats

• Adobe Flash has several file formats
• SWF and FLV are the 2 most widely used Flash
  formats.
• The animation we saw eariler was an example of
  SWF format
• All video on YouTube is Adobe Flash FLV format.
• Content protection
• No right click
• No download allowed (BBC Iplayer)

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Mobile

• Mobile design and development is NOT desktop only
  smaller
• Considerations
• Screen size (176x208, 320x208,320x240, etc)
• Color Depth
• Connectivity
• Security
• CPU / Memory
• Usability
• Bandwidth
• No device uniformity - feature set divergence
• Deployment, distribution, selling content
• Aggregators, OTA, network operators, viral, other
  methods
• Mobile economies outside APAC
• Europe US?
• There is exists a diversity of mobile needs
  throughout the world

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Tricks

• Place textfields on integer values in order to
  render correctly
• Minimize alpha transitions
• Keep framerates low
• Test often
• Use device fonts or pixel fonts
• Disable shortcuts menu where testing in the ide
• Make some test in order to choice bitmaps
  instead vector graphic
• Keep your code (script) external
• This will allow you to change the windows size
  for different phones.

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Great tutorials

• Dynamic Wallpaper Tutorial Sunrise, Sunset
• Password Protecting Menus
• Creating Pseudo Functions
• Falling Snowflakes Tutorial
• Random Ripple Tutorial
• Creating a Stopwatch Timer
• Anchoring Random Placement
• Incorporating Standby SWFs into THM files
• Analog Clock Tutorial (FL1.1)
• Updating Battery and Reception Levels
• Volume Levels
• Vibrating Objects (with phone vibration)
• Battery Level and Signal Reception
• Vibrate!
• Bitmap vs Vectors
• The Soft Keys (Flash Lite 1.1)
• Guide The Essence of the Flash Lite Menu
• How to Detect Button Presses
• How to Install Flash Menus