FlashLite - Way to start on mobile!

[vinayak.kadam]

To view any SWF user needs to select and view it from the location where it stored. Now my question is would it be possible to create something like which appears in the menu of mobile ... i.e. along with contacts, profiles, settings, logs an altogather new menu item appears and when clicked lanches the SWF ?

Suggest me the alternatives available....also what coding language can help me to do so ?

Thanx in advance for your kind consideration!

[hp3]

swf delivery is only useful for screensaver/wallpaper content for phones.

In order to create an installer/package for a Flash lite application you will need to use a format dictated by the platform you intend to deliver to. An installer/packager does the following:

- include all assets for the application in a single file download
- usually can download and install over the air, or through data cable
- application appears as an icon in a part of the phone menu system to launch the swf in the Flash Lite standalone.

Nokia s60
.sis - requires a signing process
.wgz for series 60 v3 fp2 and greater

Nokia series 40
.nfl - users select this type of content from the gallery folder

Sony Ericsson project capuchin phones
use a java archive .jar to install Flash content and midlets which extend Flash application capability

Windows mobile (using distributable player)
.cab - in some cases requires a signing process
.exe

Adobe is working on its distributable player initiative which enables a developer to distribute the Flash player, as a run time, along with the application assets. With this approach you do not have to worry whether or not a phone has Flash Lite pre-installed. Adobe intends to make a distributable player option for each open system platform, like windows mobile, symbian, andriod. Adobe currently has a beta version of the distributable Flash Lite 3.1 player for windows mobile and series 60 for selected markets. India is one of the current markets testing the beta. Another part of the beta is the mobile packager desktop software which helps developers package and sign applications for the various platforms.

[vinayak.kadam]

Thanks once again for your valuable support. You are just great! I appreciate the pains you take and make us understand the fundamentals!

Can I please request you to elaborate more on the following:

Windows mobile (using distributable player)
.cab - in some cases requires a signing process

Do you mean that on windows mobile if I follow the above technique then it is not required for the mobile to have FlashLite pre-installed ?

Thanks once again!

[hp3]

yes, for windows mobile you must use flash lite distributable. There are not any wide spread wm devices that have flash lite pre-installed.

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/distributableplayer/

[vinayak.kadam]

Hello sir moderator,

Your solution has helped me a lot to implement the desired functionality. My target device was a pocket PC (windows). It was not having any pre-installed Flash Lite version. I implemented following:

1. Installed distributable flash player from the above link you provided (*.cab file)
2. Then I created another *.cab package of my SWF's using Adobe Mobile Packager and installed it on mobile. It added a new item in the mobile menu (programs) and when I click that item my SWF is launched.

Any user now has to install the distributable player for Flash Lite 3.1 only once and later we can just go on adding our applications using the Adobe Mobile Packager solution.

A very successful answer by you to my question right from the 1st thread.

Thanks once again.