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Adobe Mobile Packager reaches 100,000 users!
Posted by Mark Doherty in Devices, Distributable Player Solution, Flash Lite, Industry News on September 2, 2009
Some great news on the mobile packager, we finally passed the 100,000 users mark yesterday as shown here on the magic “Dashboard”. This is really good news and shows that we’ve managed to reach to more developers than ever with the tool.
Interestingly enough I’m also seeing recently spikes for the Flash Lite downloads too, which would indicate that applications are finally reaching users 
Note: The orange line shows the attempted downloads, a few of which may be failures totalling 170,623 (which includes the 100,000 successful downloads). My take on it is that these are Mac users cancelling after they discover that the Mobile Packager is Windows XP only 
Distributable Player Expansion – 45 Countries
Posted by Mark Doherty in Distributable Player Solution, Flash Lite, Industry News, Mobile Content on July 16, 2009
I’m happy to announce the further expansion of the Distributable Player to a further 15 countries bringing the total to 45 across the world. With the Distributable Player it’s possible to distribute your applications with the latest Flash player optimized for mobile devices, Flash Lite 3.1. This is the same player available on the HTC Hero and Nokia 5800 devices.
The countries are: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Columbia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, UK, United Arab Emirates, USA.
Using the Adobe Mobile Packager 1.1 you can package your SWF files and assets in native installer packages, then distribute them freely from your website or that of your customer. We’ve made it extremely easy to get started and begin to work with mobile devices in advance of Flash Player 10 availability. If you’re interested in developing for Flash Player 10 when it arrives I recommend that you get your feet wet with Flash Lite to build up your knowledge of mobile and devices interaction and optimizations.
You can see some great examples of Flash applications running on mobile devices from the Flash Lite Developer Challenge below!
Nokia 5800 updates to Flash Lite 3.1
Posted by Mark Doherty in Devices, Flash Lite on May 29, 2009
As some of you have noticed Nokia have begun the process of updating the Flash Lite 3.0 player to our latest version Flash Lite 3.1. There are a number of benefits with this update but in all this brings the Nokia 5800 all the way up to Flash 9 support (AS2 only), some features are outlined below:
- Flash Lite 3.1 builds on our support for web browsability
- 92% of the top 500 sites (plus a few strategic ones)
- HTML Text coloring, <img> tag support in text fields
- Streaming audio support
- Much more memory
- It adds new support for hardware acceleration for graphics (hardware dependant)
- Bitmap data is also now exposed
- Security Model and obviously version, is now aligned with the Distributable Player
- Various bug fixes to enhance extensions for packaged applications
This update is a huge step forward because it signifies the beginning of Open Screen Project commitments to keep the Flash Player up-to-date. It’s also the first time that this has been tried out from an OEM and so there were a few glitches, notably:
- SetSoftKey FSCommand support broke
- The Flash version string included a new character “AFL” instead of “FL”
- Security Model wasn’t entirely fixed
In all for all the features added I think that this isn’t so bad, and I can say that Nokia will update FL3.1 and release this new version soon. So if you were in the Day1 gold rush then I suggest hitting update in a week or so.
*NEW – More soon on this*
- Flash Lite 3.1 also provides support for Flash Remoting
- HTTPS and AMF support
As for the Flash Remoting features I’m wildly excited about this, and I’m working to produce a simple demo.
Update: Unfortunately Remoting doesn’t work on S60 however I’m informed that this should work on WM6 devices, so feel free to give it a try!
Distributable Player Update – 13 countries, 31 devices
Posted by Mark Doherty in , Devices, Distributable Player Solution, Flash Lite, Industry News on May 20, 2009
I have some great news on our Distributable Player availability and our plans to scale the solution. For the past couple of weeks I’ve been working with some of you to test the download of Flash Lite 3.1 over-the-air in your home countries. That process has gone pretty well and collectively we’re confident that our solution can now scale quickly, we plan to add countries in batches of eight on a monthly basis.
We have added support for the player download in the following countries (I tried to enable the Flash version of this but WordPress is having none of it):
We’ve also been working hard on device certification and accelerating that program by adding the most popular S60 and Windows Mobile devices. The list is now 31 strong and will grow continually at speed.
S60 Devices
- Nokia N78
- Nokia E65
- Nokia N95 8GB
- Nokia N95
- Nokia N73
- Nokia N81
- Nokia 6120 Classic
- Nokia E51
- Nokia N81 8GB
- Nokia E71
- Nokia N96
- Nokia N82
Windows Mobile Devices
- HTC-Pro S621(Same as T-Mobile Dash)
- HTC S740
- HTC Touch Cruise P3650
- HTC Touch Diamond
- HTC Touch P3452
- HTC TyTN II P4551
- Motorola Q
- Motorola Q9c
- Motorola Q9h (CDMA)
- Motorola Q9m
- Motorola Q Norman (same as Moto Q 9h(GSM))
- Palm Treo 700w
- Palm Treo 750
- Palm Treo Pro
- Samsung SGH-i607 BlackJack I
- Samsung SGH-i617 BlackJack II
- Samsung SGH-i780
- T-Mobile Shadow
- T-Mobile Wing
The Mobile Packager 1.1 release is now out on private pre-release with a few select developers to get some feedback before launch. Last week the reigning packaging queen Liz Myers signed her first SIS and CAB files using the new tool.
Exciting times!
New Customer Videos at Adobe.com
Posted by Mark Doherty in , Devices, Flash Lite, Industry News on April 28, 2009
We’ve just finished adding some new customer success stories focussed on our recently launched Distributable Player Solution. You’ll hear from David Brown at AgencyNet who created the Barcardi application, Dario Di Zanni and Gianfranco Cordara from Disney Worldwide, Mikka Kukkosuo from Digital Chocolate, Peter Austin from Apocope who worked on the Nespresso application and Douglas Edwards from UClick.
You’ll hear how the Distributable Player with Flash Lite 3.1, has enabled them to reach their customers with a consistent experience across devices.
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