06: Video Tutorial: Building a Flash Mobile Video Player (Part 2)

A new video tutorial by Dale Rankine.

This series:
Flash video (FLV) is one of the most prominent video formats on the web, and Flash Lite 3 has the ability to bring this to Flash-enabled mobile devices as a native video format. In this second episode of a two-part series, we’ll take a look at creating an animated playhead, access and work with cue point data from the FLV, and finally playing video at full screen.

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05: Video Tutorial: Building a Flash Mobile Video Player (Part 1)

Dale updates his tutorial video with a real world example.

This series:
Flash video (FLV) is one of the most prominent video formats on the web, and Flash Lite 3 has the ability to bring this to Flash-enabled mobile devices as a native video format. In this first episode of a two-part series, we’ll take a look at loading external video into a Flash mobile application, controlling the playback of the video, and adjusting the volume.

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04: Video Tutorial: Animation in Flash Mobile Apps

One more by Dale Rankine.

This series:
Animation can greatly enhance the user experience of mobile applications, and Adobe Flash, with its roots as an animation tool, has no lack of capability in this area. This episode looks at three methods of creating movement and how this can impact your Flash mobile application.

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03: Video Tutorial: OOP Architecture for Flash Mobile Applications

Dale Rankine updates his video tutorial series with a new addition.

This series:
Object Orientated Programming (OOP) is something that more Flash mobile developers will need to grasp as the Flash mobile platform matures. In this episode, we take a look at a sample architecture for a Flash mobile application.

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02: Video Tutorial: Managing Mobile App Screens

Another video tutorial by Dale Rankine.

This series:
There are various ways of managing control over the different screens, or views, within your Flash Lite application. In this episode we look at some of these techniques and the implications they have for your application.

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01: Video Tutorial: Mobile Workflow in Adobe CS4

Wonderful video tutorials contributed by Dale Rankine. View the same in full screen and start off with creating your favorite content :)

This series:
The Adobe Creative Suite 4 tools offer smooth workflows for both designers and developers creating mobile applications and content. In this episode, we take a walk through the relevant CS4 tools and see this workflow in action.

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Distributable Player Expands to 45 Countries

Great news comes from Mark. Adobe Distributable Player now expands to 45 countries for it’s OTA distribution. Upgrading your Flash Lite Player is easier now. Latest player that will be downloaded OTA is FL 3.1. This player is available on Nokia 5800 Xpress Music and HTC Hero.

The countries: 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.

Don’t forget to use Adobe Mobile Packager 1.1 to package your applications.

FFD Magazine goes free

FFD Magazine now goes Free! The Flash and Flex Developer’s Magazine now goes free. You need not pay for the hard copy to read the magazine now. Just subscribe for free issues and get free soft copy emails of the monthly issue. Get the benefit now.

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New Flash Lite Components from Forum Nokia

Forum Nokia releases a new set of Flash Lite components. These are all compiled clips unlike the older versions. Smart code, smart UI and more importantly, documentation on how to skin them and how to use them are also properly provided.

Some of the new components are – Menu List, Image Box, Tooltip, Scroll, Scrollpane, Slider, etc.

Check them out here.

Charting Component for Flash Lite 2.0

Re-visiting a good old charting component for Flash Lite 2.0. Lightweight, fast, simple and nice.

Once it’s on, all you need to do is assign the data to the chart class and tell the chart to draw itself.

Check it out here