I’ve recorded a little video that walks you through the process and will be doing more videos on how to build mobile applications soon.
Video tutorial: Introduction to Adobe’s mobile platform
Adobe’s mobile platform has become a lot more interesting for Flash developers this week. Instead of having to open up the Flash Player on your device to watch the Flash content you created, you can now package your application using the Mobile Packager and distribute your application as an SIS-file for Symbian S60 or CAB-file for Window Mobile phones. Your users can now download and install your Flash based application on their mobile device just like any other application they install. What’s even cooler is that we also package a Flash Version Checker together with your application. As soon as the user launches the application, the Flash Version Checker is going to check if the Flash Player is installed and if it is the correct version. If not, it’s going to download and install the Flash Lite runtime seamlessly. Exactly like you would do on a PC and exactly as it should be. Check out Andrew Shorten’s blog post on the installation process.
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19. Feb, 2009
[...] Serge Jesper (Adobe) created a brief video tutorial on how to package mobile content (Flash Lite 3.1) using the recent public release of Adobe Mobile Packager, which generates deployable content (in this case .sis for Symbian based S60 Nokia, but it also currently supports .CAB for Windows Mobile) as part of the Adobe Distributable Player Solution. [...]
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19. Feb, 2009
[...] We have a very nice, well detailed step by step video tutorial on how to package your Flash Lite content using Adobe Mobile Packager by Serge Jespers. [...]
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19. Feb, 2009
[...] A step by step video tutorial of Adobe’s mobile packager for distributing your Flash lite content by Serge Jespers. [...]
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[...] Serge Jespers has a video tutorial on the Introduction to Adobe’s mobile platform and Distributable Player. You can see the video on this link. [...]
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Very nice Serge!!! I’m currently the owner of one N95 and this Mobile Package is going to easy my learning curve to spread apps through devices everywere!!!
Thanks, and keep up with the good stuff!!!
Best regards,
André Villela
Hey Serge, this is super cool. This should make it way easier to release mobile Flash applications for the public, rather than having to take the homebrew approach.
One thing I would like to see in future versions, though, would be a bundled installer for the current version of the Flash Lite player. A lot of S60 and Windows Mobile devices may not have internet access after download and installation, especially in the case of synchronization installs. So if an older version of the Flash Lite player is detected, then this could be installed from the existing package. If not, then it could just be ignored.
Looks awesome though, can’t wait to take it for a burn!
hi Serge, cool video, will crosspost it later on :)
Thomas
Nice job. I had a similar thought of doing this the other night, unfortunately my time is very constrainted for community acitivites right now.
1. Why doesn’t Adobe just move to the cloud for packaging? Would solve the mac issue. Plus it’s a lot easier to maintain. SWFPack (aka Kuneri) is already doing this, FYI.
2. Did you test on a real N95 hardware? Did you optimize the videos? Just curious. :) Looked like you were just playing clips off the site or pulled down the .flvs directly … Device Central will only get you so far and video simulation could be a lot better in Device Central …
Hey Scott,
I did test the app on a real N95 and will actually show it at FITC next week ;-)
I did optimize the videos for the N95 screen and lower bandwidth though.
S
You need to get yourself a 5th edition device. 5800 or N97 (when it’s out). Adobe can pay. :)
I’ll also have a 5800 with me at FITC. Gonna do a really cool demo with that. ;)
That’s a great move for Adobe but are there issues with the SIS-file? Will each file need to be Symbian Signed? https://www.symbiansigned.com/
@No1theme: I’ll do a more detailed tutorial on that soon. But in short, you can use the _signed file to install on your file to test and the non-signed file is what you use to get it Symbian signed.
Any chance of getting a look at the source for the video player you created? Did you use FMS or progressive download? I’ve been working on a video player for N series devices which uses progressive download, but seem to be running into memory issues. Any suggestions?
Hi Jake,
I will do a video on that very soon.
Stay tuned,
Serge
Hi Serge?
Tinkering with flash lite and almost done with a mobizine, probably the first to take advantage of Flash on this side of the world (Kenya in East Africa, most developers here swear by the gospel of J2ME) – let me know if I may on occasion pick your brilliant mind Sir.
Great tutorial by the way but the Symbian SDK is quite heavy (355MB) … you see our fibre backbone lands in June 2009 (sigh!).
Kind regards
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