Delivering flash lite content to mobile devices?

[Captain Planet]

Hi folks.

I've made a few quick Flash Lite 2.1 examples recently, with a view to testing out delivery methods for a small project I have which I want the general public to use.

The other day, I compiled an .SWF and applied ORA DRM 1.0 forward lock to it, ultimately creating a .dm file. I hosted it on a web server, browsed to it from my mobile browser (N95 8gig) and installed it to my phone. Awesome - it worked and was unsendable to other devices.

However, I'm thinking if I'm only appealing to users who have internet access from their phone, I could be omitting a rather large audience (I don't pay my service provider for internet access - I used a wireless router connection via the WI-FI feature).

Then I thought about wrapping the .SWF in a .SIS installer, so a user could download it using the internet from a computer, and then use Nokia PC Suite (or similar) to install it. I've not fully investigated this yet, but I suspect I'd have to create a different SIS file for every S60 platform, and other operators and mobile OSs too! This would take ages!!??

Maybe I need to research this last bit a little more, but if anybody can offer me some advice it would be much appreciated.....I'm not sure which path to take!

[Thommas]

"This would take ages!!??"
Tools like Kunerilite are not that odd :-)

"Maybe I need to research this last bit a little more, but if anybody can offer me some advice it would be much appreciated.....I'm not sure which path to take!"
I only know about Kunerilite to build SIS file ... and I must admit symbiansigned is a very complicated issue for mobile developers to deal with...

A Flash Lite 2.1 SWF without any filesystem command is a "passive content" for symbiansigned and is very easy to validate.

[adahsrah]

I have just created a basic flash application. I want to load and check it on the device. May i know the procedure for that?

[Thommas]

Just copy your "app.swf" file to the phone, and launch it, using the file explorer of your phone.

Using Kunerilite Wizard, you can build a SIS file (Installer) : it automatically installs your swf file on the phone as well as a shortcut in "program menu" to the SWF file.