Archive for category Mobile Content
Cooklet Application – Multi-screen
Posted by Mark Doherty in Flash Lite, Flash Player, Mobile Content on September 7, 2010
Grzegorz Trubilowicz of IKS in Poland recently came out of hiding to show off “Cooklet”, a great example of a multi-screen application for cooking enthusiasts!
Part of my secret past involved six years behind a cooker, believe it or not I was a Chef. So this application is very interesting and there are lots and lots of components, including an AIR application, a Flash Lite app and of course this works in the browser too. As you would hope, the applications leverage the Flash Platform as well as HTML and JScript to deliver a great RIA experience.
Users can create, share and comment on recipes for food and cocktails. On your mobile phone you can keep track of your meal plan using the on board shopping list (Contextual application anyone?).
As if that weren’t enough, IKS created their own TV Channel on Youtube – and that can only lead to one thing 
Signup and have a look
P2P Radar for Android
Posted by Mark Doherty in Android, Mobile Content on August 27, 2010
A few weeks ago I published a video demonstrating the amazing P2P features in AIR2.x, running on the desktop and on Android devices. Well I have been hard at work improving this application and making it robust enough to show here in India at the Flash Platform Summit.
The result is a pretty complex application that enables users to establish P2P video calls. I have used Google Maps in 3D mode and added Gesture support, Twitter for Authentication and a completely new API.
As promised, here is the source for you to download. Remember that Tom Krcha is our P2P and FMS expert, so make sure that you keep up-to-date on his blog for more elaborate uses of P2P.
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Update – P2P Video Calls on Android
Posted by Mark Doherty in Android, Flash Player, Industry News, Mobile Content on July 17, 2010
Note: These AIR features are “working”, although they may not make it into the v1 product.
Note: This is not an Adobe product, but simply a feature demo that took 3 days. Any one can build P2P applications with Flash and AIR.
This week I have been working on a couple of different mini-projects to test out new beta features of AIR 2.5 for Android. The engineering team are pushing out features every week, and I have to say I’m very very impressed with their efforts. We are arguably now at feature parity with the desktop AIR releases, which is precisely the goal of the Open Screen Project.
In the 5/7 build we have added Camera, Microphone, StageWebView and NativeExtensions features to the beta. Of course AIR comes with all of the Flash Player 10.1 features along with multi-touch/gestures, support for bitmap matrix caching and Geolocation APIs in addition.
The code isn’t exactly stable so I don’t want to release it just yet. I hope I can finish it by next week, by which time it will have a name. I changed the name of this demo since it’s not an Adobe Flash Platform product, which caused some confusion. There aren’t plans currently to release this as a product, however I will publish the source code for all.
Flash/AIR on!
AIR2.5 StageWebView demo – OAuth Support
Posted by Mark Doherty in Android, Flash Player, Mobile Content on July 17, 2010
Some of you will have seen our recent series of e-seminars and blog posts about EVA, the Evangelist tool for day-to-day activities. As you would expect, it’s a multi-screen application that uses all of our technologies where possible.
In terms of production, I am responsible for the mobile implementation and for that I created a number of features such as the GeoServices library, Twitter widget and radar widget – all of which I covered in previous blog posts.
One of the team gripes with the Twitter component is that it’s too hard to login to Twitter using the PIN based mechanism. With that in mind I jumped at the chance to use StageWebView that is now part of the AIR 2.5 beta on Android devices.
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Launching m.flash.com & BBC iPlayer for Android
Posted by Mark Doherty in Android, Flash Player, Mobile Content on June 24, 2010
m.flash.com
We have released Flash Player 10.1 to our OEM partners in what has been an incredible engineering effort working with our Open Screen Project partners. One of the problems with the Flash Player generally, is that it is invisbile. As a user its so easy to forget that a single web technology is powering billions of videos, games, Rich Internet Applications and now desktop applications with AIR.
So we have been working with the worlds leading content providers, alongside our OEM partners to create experiences that shine. With that, we’ve aggregated these together over at m.flash.com so that you can enjoy them on your mobile phones. I think it will really help to sell those mobile and device projects that we’ve all been thinking about.
iPlayer
If I’m honest, this is the one that I have been most excited about, and this week the BBC launched iPlayer 3.0. with support for Android Froyo devices and Flash Player 10.1. As I live in the UK, and I know many of you don’t, let’s take a look at just how huge the service has become.
Simply put, iPlayer is like Hulu for BBC content providing video on demand services for UK citizens. Using the service we can watch BBC content that we’ve missed, across 10 TV channels and 11 radio stations. On top of that, we can also watch TV live using iPlayer online to work around poor terrestrial signals – or in my case, a tiny television
In perspective (BBC iStats for May 2010)
- 130m radio and television streams watched, across PCs, consoles and mobile phones
- 13m live streams were broadcast, including a huge amount of live radio proportional to video streams
- 6.5m video/radio requests from mobile phones
- Peak usage tracks linear broadcast usage almost exactly – the shape of things to come
Currently the iPlayer is available on the Nintendo Wii, PS3, Mac, Windows, Linux, Symbian, Windows Mobile and iOS devices. As you would expect, when it comes to scaling the iPlayer platform across all of these devices, the task is huge. That’s where Flash comes in, if you look at the list above (and more still) we have demonstrated Flash on all of them.
When you test your Flash-enabled site, why not let me know? Let’s add it to m.flash.com