Adobe Flash Lite 2.1 for Windows Mobile 5.0 Preview

[Darius Wey]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashlite_wm5/' target='_blank'>http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashlite_wm5/</a><br /><br /></div><i>"This preview release of Adobe® Flash® Lite™ 2.1 for Windows Mobile 5.0, planned for release later this year, allows mobile developers to create Flash Lite applications and content for both Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone and Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC configurations. Mobile developers can now benefit from cross-platform development since Flash Lite 2.1 for BREW is also based on Flash Lite 2.1 and allows repurposing of content and applications with minimal changes for another platform. Flash Lite 2.1 is based on the Flash 7 standard for content. This means that content developed in the Flash 7 authoring environment can be re-purposed for mobile and consumer electronic devices."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/wey-20060927-flashlite.jpg" /><br /><br />If you've been toying with Flash Lite, here's a chance to grab the latest developer preview for Windows Mobile 5.0. Flash Lite 2.1 Preview includes support for dynamic XML data, persistent data, powerful and dynamic media, text enhancements, ActionScript 2.0, synchronised device audio, and compressed SWF files. There's a messy process of player activation and it requires a device IMEI, so it looks like standalone PDAs are out of this one. :(

[Marcel_Proust]

ok - i know my question is probably completely stupid and shows my ignornace, but :
can I play youtube videos off my pocketpc with this?

[SteveHoward999]

ok - i know my question is probably completely stupid and shows my ignornace, but :
can I play youtube videos off my pocketpc with this?

Depends. Maybe they use Flash 8 to make the videos.

I'd assume not until proven otherwise.

[SteveHoward999]

OK I am kinda ticked off by this announcement. For a number of reasons, but mostly because there is no support for older, Pre-WM5 devices. Developers have been asking for a Flash 7 player for PPC for years, and we got it earlier this year (PPC 2003 and later), only to discover it was a crippled product with no SDK and no standalone player.

Now, after months of silence, the announcement is made that PPC support is moving to Flash Lite (not a bad idea on its own) and anything that is not aphone and not WM5 seems to have been tossed aside. Sure Adobe has a business to run, but this seems like a bad move to me.

Of course that's at least partly because I neither have nor want a converged device, because none of the existing devices meet my needs. If I want to do any Flash development for PPC I am going to have to

discard PPC 3003 support,
or build feature-crippled applications for WM 5 so that I can package the same code for PPC 2003
or else build separate versions for each platform
or not build for WM5.

On the plus side, this opens the door for one application being built for Symbian, Brew and WM5 devices with minor tweaks for each platform. Good news, but I really would have preferred a wider delivery platform for PPC since there are still many many older and non-phone devices around.

[aNiMeMaN14]

ok - i know my question is probably completely stupid and shows my ignornace, but :
can I play youtube videos off my pocketpc with this?
lol, this is the ONLY reason i came into the thread

[kash]

ok - i know my question is probably completely stupid and shows my ignornace, but :
can I play youtube videos off my pocketpc with this?
lol, this is the ONLY reason i came into the thread

me three! i was gonna post but the real question is can i you tube from my mobile device lol :)

[Darius Wey]

me three! i was gonna post but the real question is can i you tube from my mobile device lol :)

Short answer, no. Long answer, see this thread (http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=51019).

It really is a pain, eh? ;)

[Rethink]

The way I see Adobe finally made a product for PPC, something they have not done properly for a long time (ever?). It would be good if Flash could be used as a great tool for development, the benfits of this would be an expontial growth of people that are not coding masters but they could develop enjoyable aps or just bits and pieces for PPC's - something like this could start a greater interest in the PPC environment for developers and the little people.

In essence I agree with SteveHoward999 they should do it properly but nothing is better than something.

Enjoy :-)

[SteveHoward999]

The way I see Adobe finally made a product for PPC, something they have not done properly for a long time (ever?).

There has been a Flash Player for PPC for years. Adobe released a Flash 7 Player early this year, just after they took over Flash from Macromedia. This is the second Flash Player for PPC from Adobe, but right now it's still a beta product.