We’ve been hard at work enabling support for new countries with the Flash Lite 3.1 player, enabling you to use the most recent player with the Adobe Mobile Packager 1.1. I’m happy to announce that we’ve continued to accelerate the addition of new countries around the world adding 16 countries, and bringing the total to 29.
The countries are: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, UK and the USA.
Right now we’re looking at how to enable support for new devices on a platform level, so rather than certifying each device we can certify whole platforms. It’s not an easy task but we’re very confident that the player won’t start breaking.
#1 by Scott on June 18, 2009 - 4:00 pm
Congrats to Adobe.
#2 by Pasi Manninen on June 18, 2009 - 8:30 pm
Hurray
Finally Finland is included.
#3 by Mark Doherty on June 18, 2009 - 10:32 pm
you might want to check that it works first
#4 by Dale Rankine on June 18, 2009 - 11:11 pm
Good stuff. Enabling at platform level has to be the goal here. Certification of individual devices is what killed the Flash Lite/BREW ecosystem in the US with FL2.1 because it’s such a labor intensive process. Well done guys.
#5 by Randy on June 19, 2009 - 3:56 pm
Great news!
whats that map you guys used? is it free to use, or somewhere to download?
#6 by Mark Doherty on June 22, 2009 - 7:27 pm
You can get it at ammap.com
#7 by Mojo on July 2, 2009 - 2:47 pm
Good job guys! Question for you Mark, can the flash lite player be distributed to devices not officially supported by Adobe? For example, there are many devices that use the WM6.1 platform, and we know the player works on WM, but can it be legally distributed (along with the application) to those devices?
#8 by Mark Doherty on July 5, 2009 - 11:57 am
Hi Mojo,
You should check the terms of distribution on our site, as I understand them you can only distribute the player over-the-air using our mechanisms.
If you manually install the cab files then I don’t see an issue there at all, as long as you check that you content doesn’t break!!
Mark
#9 by Mojo on July 6, 2009 - 5:17 am
Well the issue is the over-the-air download does not work due to error along the lines of “device not supported”. Although the device is a WM6.1 OS, and everything works fine with the manual CAB file. The second issue is that the devices don’t have access to the internet.
The terms and conditions don’t really give me an answer unless i pay a lawyer to figure it out for me.
#10 by Mark on July 21, 2009 - 6:05 pm
Good to see that so many coutries are included…
#11 by Honey on July 21, 2009 - 6:09 pm
Excellent Stuff! congrats for the successfull expansion.
#12 by Rohan on July 21, 2009 - 6:11 pm
i wish you all the very best for the project!