On the Adobe Developer Week there are couple of Flash Lite screencast:

* Flash Lite and Flex for tourism
* Blood from a stone: Flash game optimization on low-end mobile devices

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A new Flash Lite article on the Adobe DevNet: Developing Flash Lite applications with dynamic layouts.

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This week there were some great announcements from Adobe and Sony Ericsson.

Adobe Open Screen Project: “The Open Screen Project is working to enable a consistent runtime environment — taking advantage of Adobe® Flash® Player and, in the future, Adobe AIR™ — that will remove barriers for developers and designers as they publish content and applications across desktops and devices, including phones, mobile Internet devices (MIDs), and set top boxes.”

Sony Ericsson Capuchin project: “Project Capuchin is a Java ME API which makes it possible for Java to run a Flash Lite content file (*.swf) that is shown on the display. All system events (e.g. key events) are forwarded from Java to Flash Lite and the Flash Lite player has a choice of listening to these events. In case Flash Lite wants to access some information then it is done through Java. Communication between Flash Lite and JSRs are handled through an intermediate class that works as a translator. This class listens to Flash Lite requests, transfers these to JSR calls, and sends response back to Flash Lite. Communication between Flash Lite and Java is bi-directional meaning that Flash Lite can send requests to and receive events from Java. Requests send from Flash Lite are made in an asynchronous manner.”

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Time to get together again after the long winter. The Boston Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group is holding a meeting on May 15th at 7PM at Asgard Pub in Cambridge, between MIT and Central Square.

Anyone in the Boston area is welcome to come, some cool gadgets will be given away!

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Forum Nokia published couple of new articles:

Sound for Nokia S60 and Series 40 Devices: “Learn about the Flash Lite sound implementation on Nokia platforms. This document covers the implementation of Flash Lite 2.x players on Nokia Series 40 and S60 Devices. The document features a lot of commented code examples and together with the document Flash Lite 1.1: Sound for Nokia S60 and Series 40 devices gives the Flash Lite developer a full understanding of audio playback issues”

Flash Lite Tips and Tricks: ” This article gives some recommendations regarding performance improvements when using Flash Lite. Optimization efforts are needed in order to create a high-quality movie or application. The article covers both content optimization and Action Script optimization.”

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On April 15th Nokia and Adobe will host a Webinar on Flash and Mobile Browsing.

“Join us for this webinar, where we will look at that integration, give some pointers for developing online mobile flash content and provide a full Q & A session.”

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The Boston Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group is holding an eSeminar on April 18, 2008 at 12PM EST (check your local time). Kirk Ballou will present Predictive Mobile Search comes to Flash Lite: GoMoInfo.com and Live Data Search

Speaker: Kirk has nine years of experience in Flash with a client list that includes Nokia, Verizon, Adobe, and Hewlett-Packard. He created one of the first flash on mobile applications in 2004 embedding flash player 6 in compact framework for VerizonONE.

Mobile search services are expected to generate annual revenues of $4.8bn by 2013, according to analysts. Thus it has become one of the most competitive industries in mobile. See how a small texas based company is making big waves by changing the way users find data on their phone. Join Kirk Ballou to learn about patent pending Live Data Search through Flash Lite. This technology is tied into a new offering of free business directory search with Click-to-Call.

Please join the Boston Adobe Mobile and Device User Group to participate to the eSeminar and be part of the User Group. When you apply tell us something about yourself.

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The 2007 Flash Lite game contest winners have been announced !! Congratulation to all!!

For the America region here are the winners:

1) Bog Frog by Emilia Ciardi
2) Sketch Mini by Chung Santoki
2) I love pizza by Emilia Ciardi
3) Mr. Shooti by Roozbeh Roozbeh
4) Think Fast by Afzainizam Zahari
5) Mutilator by Christian Gonzales

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Next week there will be several eSeminars dedicated to Mobile and Devices.

* Getting Started with Flash Lite 3 and CS3
* Flash Lite and Flex for Tourism
* Blood from a Stone: Flash Game Optimization on Low-end mobile devices

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The Boston Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group is holding an eSeminar on March 21th at 12PM EST (check your local time) Scott Janousek will give an introduction to designing and developing Flash Lite “widgets” for the Wi-Fi enabled consumer electronic device known simply as: “The Chumby“.

Speaker: Scott Janousek, Technical Director of Hooken Mobile. Scott is an Adobe Community Expert - Mobile and Devices and an Adobe Certified Flash Lite 1.1/2.x Trainer.

“Learn how to leverage your existing Flash skills to create Flash Lite content such as glanceable info type applications, “ultra” casual games, and much more for this uniquely fun; yet surprisingly powerful; non-PC device platform.

In addition to an introduction to the Chumby platform, we’ll discuss many Flash Lite widget development topics unique to the device; such as: various user input methods, remote data exchange methods, security, multimedia capabilities, API, the Chumby environment & framework; and time permitting; much more.

For good measure, we’ll walkthrough the creation of a simple Chumby widget from initial concept; all the way through design, development, testing, and eventual deployment to the Chumby network. Best practices and some tips & tricks will be discussed.

Depending on time, a Q&A session will follow this seminar to address some of your inner most “chumb-o-sities” (sorry, I mean *curi-o-sities*!).”

Please join the Boston Adobe Mobile and Device User Group to participate to the eSeminar and be part of the User Group. When you apply tell us something about yourself.

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The UK Mobile and Devices User Group is having a meeting at the Adobe office in London. Guest speaker is Mark and will share some information on Flash Lite 3, Flash Video and FlashCast.

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Tomorrow there will be an interesting eSeminar - The Next Big Thing: Mobile Location with Flashlite.

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There is a new article on the Adobe DevNet: Developing widgets for Chumby with Flash Lite 3

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The Device Central CS3 Device Profile Update #5 is available for download. Make sure you already installed the Flash Lite 3 update for CS3.

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Here a new article on Flash Lite: How to protect Flash Lite content with OMA DRM 1.0

If you have a Flash Lite enabled handsets you can test the protected content by downloading it from the following location:

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