I wanted to put down a requests list for OEM that will integrate Flash Lite in their devices in 2008:
- When you ship new handsets, provide some content!!!
- Improve information regarding which Flash Lite content is supported by the devices
- Add Flash Lite content for animated ringtones
- Enable sound in wallpapers and screensavers
- Enable Flash Lite content in the browser by default, currently a user needs to modify the browser settings in the Nokia browser to view Flash Lite content in a mobile web page
Probably there are others!
Alessandro
tags: Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Flash Lite, mobile, biskero
Here’s a few more:
- support ‘high-quality’ rendering on screensavers (aliasing looks ugly)
- screensavers that fade-to-black after a few seconds aren’t very appealing
- provide users some idea of why the ‘Flash Player’ icon appears in their menu
- if SWF is a supported media type (like 3GP, MP3, JPG) please make playback available within device media players
- if SWF is an application format (like Java) please provide an install/uninstall process (complete with icon/shortcut from menu) to the application
- if a SWF isn’t compatible with the current player version on a device, please provide something other than ‘error – corrupt file’.
Ciao Bryan,
good points.
About the install/unistall, swf are not considered application. The runtime is the FL player, so swf are the same as a 3gp, jpg and so on…
We are working on a JME installar called Jarpa, maybe OEM can help out?
Alessandro
Alessandro,
Hmm… a real dilemma here. Adobe wants developers to view Flash as a ‘platform’ for media/content AND applications. OEMs generally treat it as a media format. Consumers typically can’t tell what’s Flash and what isn’t on the web, but most realize it’s what their favourite games, animations and videos are delivered with it. There is no such thing as a ‘Flash player’ to your average consumer (on the desktop/web) as it’s just part of the browser, and having one on a device is confusing – especially without actual content supplied on the device.
Now throw in the fact that Flash doesn’t work within mobile browsers by default (for viewing the video and games they play online – forget about the different SWF versions for a minute) and most mobile consumers will be left feeling very confused about what Flash actually does on mobile devices.
Jarpa sounds interesting – but it would be preferrable if Adobe, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, etc could settle on the Flash/web specific equivalent of a .jad file that would provide a means to install the SWF either as a media file (viewable within the gallery, Flash Player, wallpaper, etc) or an application (with icon/shortcut/uninstall).
Perhaps widgets (W3C, Nokia, Opera, etc – .zip + files and manifest) could work for this purpose?
Ciao Bryan,
about the Web RunTime from Nokia, it’s an interesting solution and FL content is supported since is integrated in the S60 Browser.
Just tested and it works fine, installation/packaging is simple too.
Alessandro