Naked Bits » Build http://www.nakedbits.nl Naked Bits helps your company to play and innovate with inspirational technology Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:25:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Mobile Madness at Adobe User Group http://www.nakedbits.nl/2009/03/mobile-madness-at-adobe-user-group/ http://www.nakedbits.nl/2009/03/mobile-madness-at-adobe-user-group/#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:58:21 +0000 dirk http://localhost/~dirkgroten/wordpress/?p=22 Last week, the NL Adobe User Group organized an event themes ‘Mobile Madness’. While you would expect such an event to be entirely focused on Flash Lite development, the Adobe platform for applications on the mobile phones, most of the speakers actually didn’t use Flash Lite for their examples. Like any mobile event nowadays, all the buzz is about the iPhone (in this case it was “the other phone”) and how to duplicate the success and model of Apple.

Does Flash Lite have a future as mobile platform?
Some 50% of the 200 attendants of the events had an iPhone in their hands. Their main question was: “When will Flash come to the iPhone?” which wasn’t answered. But to me, it looked like the Flash Lite platform offers some interesting aspects:

  • More than 1 billion phones are equipped with Flash Lite. Think of all the S60 series phones from Nokia, but also many SonyEricsson and Samsung phones.
  • Developing for Flash Lite is really platform independent. Adobe gives you the Device Central application, with which you can preview, test and build your application for all the different mobile phones. All in one IDE.
  • Creating ‘flashy’ user interfaces is really easy for people used to working with Flash on the desktop.

So in all, Flash Lite is a very attractive platform for building demonstration apps that will run on many different feature phones.

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