Flash Lite 2.0 Content Optimization
Recently i came across a nice and very useful article on "Content Optimization for Flash Lite 2.0" written by Josh Ulm.
This article gives us some nice tips to create fast and lean content for Flash to run on Mobile Devices using Flash Lite 2.0. It was real eye opener for me to know such basic techniques while creating content for Mobile Devices.
Check this out and i am sure this will teach you some nice techniques...
Vitual Keyboard for FlashLite for Digital Home – II
Continuing from the Part I of this tutorial, hope you are ready with the keyboard layout and key labels as both 'smallcase_mc' and 'caps_mc'. Now your layer structure should be something like this (dont worry about 'actions' layer, which we will create now in next step).
Layer Structure
Virtual Keyboard for FlashLite for Digital Home (FLDH) – I
Adobe Flash Lite for Digital Home (FLDH) is Flash Player optimized for hardware and software architecture of digital home devices like Televison Sets, SetTop Box etc. All the events that can be performed on FLDH is only using TV Remote Control. As you all know, Remote Control's navigation is Four-Way (Up, Down, Left and Right) with OK (of Enter) button.
On FLDH, when arrow keys are pressed on Remote, the focus will move from one active object to the next. In this way, we can navigate to all the active objects present on the stage.
Currently there are not many digital home devices which has support for keyboard input. All the inputs possible through remote are Numerals (0 through 9), Directional Keys (Up, Down, Left, Right) and OK (Enter). So, there is no way that we can input alphabetical characters from Remote.
Sony Ericsson FlashLite UI Components
I recently saw that Sony Ericsson released a set of FlashLite UI Components 2.0 Beta, to help Flash developers to create rich apps for Mobile devices with a lot of ease. These components are packaged into a MXP file, which can be installed on both Adobe Flash CS3 and CS4 using Extension Manager.
These components are easily customizable, very light and robust using which flash applications can be developed in no time.