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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.

Me and dain will be giving a presentation on wednesday for Mobile design uk.

Generation UX

A light hearted look over the short history of mobile UI and UX, and were it might go in the future. This short talk will specifically look at the progression of mobile UI, personalization and overall user experience over the last decade or so, and how we as mobile designers can push the boundaries to create fresh, intuitive interfaces and user experiences.

Looking forward to meeting some more of the every growing mobile community in London, and thanks to Bryan for inviting us.

Venue :

Seren Partners Limited
55-57 Rivington Street, London
Wednesday April 22rd, doors open 6:30pm

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

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

hi,

The guys at ustwo have been real busy this week , and are giving away another cool flash lite wallpaper. Colour changes to time of day, and has a special feature for fireworks night… ( i cheated and checked it out in DC4 )

Download it from here

Matt

hi ,

ustwo™ are giving away a free Monster Mash wallpaper from their site this halloween.

Designed to thoroughly haunt your phone, a series of animated monsters continually swap heads, bodies, eyes, ears, noses and mouths as they creep on and off your screen. The result is an ever-changing parade of Halloween ghouls (which are actually quite cute).

grab it from their blog – Here

Plugin your charger, and see what happens

Matt

The next face to face UK adobe mobile and devices meeting is on the
21st of October 2008 @ the Adobe offices , Regents Park, and promises
to be the biggest yet! We have a great range of speakers and will have
some great prizes / adobe swag to give away.

Activities / Speakers include

Orange
ustwo™
Device Central CS4 demo
lots of free pizza & drinks

We will also be raffling of a full version of CS4 Design Premium on
the night as well as a range of CS3 packages.

For full details , visit the UK MaD site by clicking HERE

To attend this event (and be entered into the prize draw for CS4),
please RSVP to UGadmin@flashmobilegroup-uk.org with the subject “I
want to attend the UKMaD Meeting oct2008″ with your name, contact
email & contact number. Remember, if you do not RSVP, you will NOT be
entered into the software raffle or receive your free bag of swag.

Make sure you don’t miss this event, promises to be a great one , with
over £3000’s of free Adobe software to be given away on the night!
Look forward to seeing you there.

via Mark,

Mark Doherty from adobe has released a set of components on his blog which have been design by Matt snow & team at Adobe mobile UI design.

What will you get from them:

* Discover how to create low memory yet rich components
* List, Slider, Tile, NavModel and Gapper components for Flash Lite 2.x/3.x
* Carousel, Menu, Story and scroll bars in Flash Lite 1.1
* Key Handling for Flash Lite 1.1 and Flash Lite 2.x/3.x
* Image Handling, loading and unloading etc (TileMenu)
* Creating device UI and multi-screen applications (NavModel)

I have used some of these in one of my recent projects (streamMobile) and they are a great way to implement some great looking navigation very quickly. The are also reasonably easy to customize graphically and also in implementation.

You can get them from here . enjoy!

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