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we will be holding the next UK mobile and devices user group meeting on Wednesday 4th November @ the adobe offices in London.

We will be having the Device Central team over to talk about the new version, and give a sneak peek at some of the new features that will be available to you in the upcoming version. You will also get a chance to ask questions, give feedback and talk about feature you would like to see available.

Mark Doherty will be giving a demo of the new work flow for developing iPhone applications, using the flash IDE that was announced at MAX this year, as well as going over some of the new developments we will be seeing for the mobile space in upcoming versions of the Adobe software.

As well as all this breaking news, we will be providing some drinks, as well as the chance to win a full version of CS4 Creative Suite, as well as some more adobe goodies.

Places will be limited, so please RSVP to matt AT ustwo DOT co DOT uk to secure yours, and be entered into the software draw.

Venue :

Adobe Offices

12 Park Crescent
London
W1B 1PH
Tel: +44 (0)207 317 4100

Date:

Wednesday, 4th november , 2009

Time :

7.30pm onwards

download the attached file for detailed instructions on how to get there,

look forward to seeing you all

Matt

Wow, over 8 months, and my site is now back online, at a brand new domain, mattpollitt.co.uk. Over the next two weeks, I’m hoping to get back to posting and put some of things i have been up to lately on here, including a few conferences, work @ ustwo , and as recently announced, some details into the work we have been doing on notus.

This was originally a test post to see if i could get flash working ok in wordpress. Since it looks nice, i have decided to leave it here.

This is actually a little fun particle generator i knocked together on the plane to Torronto, on my recent trip to FITC Mobile to run on a high end fl3 device. The motion is code generated, and the particles are a mix of minimal code and pre-made timeline tweens, including the colour shift. At the end of each particle motion, the clip deletes it’s self and frees up memory . The combination also means the processor is not bombarded by multiple instances and movies.

I have multiplied the number of particles created by 3 for the desktop version though, and added motion on 3 axis using a basic sine calculation.

Hey all,

Thanks for the great turn out for the eSeminar, hope you enjoyed it and were
excited about some of the announcements we covered.

The recording is now available, and I have posted the link on the UK MaD
adobe.groups page as well as a full summary.

http://groups.adobe.com/groups/e5ecd800f7/summary

On the blog post, there are also answers from mark doherty to some of the
questions would could not answer for you on the night. Hopefully these
responses will clear everything up for you, but if you have any other
questions, I know mark views this list, and will be more than happy to
answer them for you.

I have also included the link to the new RSS feed off the blog on the UK
Adobe groups site, please feel free to subscribe, as we are trying to update
this as much as possible.

http://groups.adobe.com/resources/1bef7dc8f6/feed

Through the Open Screen Project, Adobe has released the RTMP specification, which is a protocol used extensively for delivering data and services via the Flash Platform.

Flashlite 3.1 has enhanced RTMP support, adding features such as seek, video smoothing and enhanced video suport.

I have written a more in depth post on the UK MAD adobe group page, so check it out for more details by following the link.

matt

On the 28th January 09, @ 5pm GMT we will be holding the first eSeminar meeting for the UK Adobe mobile and devices usergroup this year.

Myself and Stuart Varrall will be speaking about the upcoming Flash Lite distributable Player, and how it will affect the flashlite developers in the UK.

We will be going into a bit more detail on how it works, sharing some of adobe’s road map for this initiative, and showing you some interesting data on current flash lite usage in the UK market.

Please join the group @ http://groups.adobe.com/groups/e5ecd800f7/summary and we will be posting details of the link closer to the time.

matt

via alessandro,

Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia is paying 264m euros ($410m; £209m) to buy out the other shareholders in handset software firm Symbian.

Nokia, which already owns 48% of the UK-based firm, intends to develop its software to compete with Google’s planned Android operating system.

For its part, Symbian said the takeover was “a fundamental step” in the establishment of the Symbian Foundation, which is expected to start operating in the first half of 2009.

The foundation will bring together Nokia, AT&T, LG, Motorola, NTT Docomo, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone in collaboration on a new, royalty-free open software platform for mobile phones.

This looks like great news for flashlite development,

check out The BBC technology news for a full article

check out Mark Doherty’s post for an Adobe insiders view

view symbian’s white paper on the symbian foundation for indepth details

view the symbain foundation website for upcoming news

I have just put a flv demo online for one of the new FL applications i have been working on.

It is in effect a mobile “channel” for a company called Stream that provide On Demand video via set-top boxes & a broadband connection in your home.

The mobile client allows you to log in and view Stream’s content on the move.

It is a completely dynamic menu system, updated via the server, which allows new content to be added on the fly.

The video is handled via Flash media server, and streamed directly to the handset.

The Demo application is connected to the internet by a o2 3G connection in this video.

view the demo here, (apologies for lack of sound)

DEMO LINK

check out stream’s online service @ streamOnline.co.uk
matt

hi all,

there is a great new article on the adobe M&D dev center , Working with Flash Lite 3 and Flash Media Server video written by Nick Hippe from Adobe.

In this article I’ll cover two scenarios for streaming Flash video from the Flash Media Server to Flash Lite 3. The first is the simplest possible example. In the second example, I’ll use script-based bandwidth detection to determine the bandwidth available to the device, and then stream the appropriate video based on that information.

This is a really cool article, and i found the bandwidth detection very useful.

Matt

Interesting article via Bill’s site, about a new new sony product that supports fl3 web browsing.

The mylo 2 has an enhanced web browser with Flash Lite 3 integrated to allow users to view YouTube videos and other rich, interactive web sites that require Flash support. Since Flash Lite 3 only supports SWF content that’s published as version 8 or lower, web sites that are published as Flash 9 such as Flex applications will not be displayed.

click here for the full article.

Looking forward to seeing this in the UK

Matt

Dale has just informed me that ClubMoket has just gone live.

Club Moket (clubmoket.mobi on your phone browser) is, to our knowledge, the first off-deck mobile portal dedicated to selling Flash Lite content. We have launched first with our “Mokimations” catalogue, featuring animated wallpapers and screensavers. Q1-2 2008 will see games, applications and mobile video added to the service. We’re really pushing out content that shows off the great visual nature of Flash, as well as handset interactivity (for clocks, random animations, MoCarbon products, etc)

This presents an entirely new and accessible channel for global customers, and one that we look forward to filling with great content from the wider FL community through the Moket Content Network.

This is great news as it gives the fl community a great opportunity to start making money from personalization content.

to read the full press release , click here

to read dales blog post , click here

and to view the .mobi site, point your mobile browsers to clubmoket.mobi, and gain access to some great flash lite content for your mobile. (or stick your number in the widget on the sidebar of this site to have a wap link sent straight to your handet via SMS)

Matt