Flash Lite is a latest technology from Adobe which makes it easy to develop interactive and rich user interface applications developed in Flash for mobile devices. This technology directly competes with J2ME which is a technology from Java to develop mobile and personal device applications.
Flash Lite is currently in version 3 and it provides a runtime environment which is used to host the Flash mobile applications. This technology allows software developers to develop software for mobile devices and bring the rich user experience to the mobile users.
Flash Lite technology is not an operating system . Rather, this technology is more about client side development. Flash Lite allows you to develop and prototype the applications rapidly and there by improves developer productivity and reduces the turnaround time of the product to market.
This technology is more like Java mobile technology in that is requires that Flash Lite runtime environment be installed on the mobile device just like Java kilobyte virtual machine is required to run J2ME platform applications. The most attractive thing about this mobile technology is that the graphics system used in the Flash Lite is vector based. Vector based graphics are lossless meaning whether you rotate vector images or stretch or transform in any way , there is no quality loss for the picture.
Moreover , this technology also allows you to convert desktop based Flash content to mobile compatible content and vice versa.
There is a downside too for this technology. Since this technology is relatively new , there are not many mobile handsets offering Flash Lite runtime system which required to run applications developed in this technology. Although this scene is all set to change as Sony Ericsson and Nokia have started manufacturing handsets with this technology enabled. Thus we see that Flash Lite technology enables manufacturers to provide customers with complete web browsing experiences, video, and compelling interactive content.
Some relevant links
Flash Lite 3.0 application: StreamMobile Tv
Flash Lite free content site: Flash Stock site is been updated
Flash Lite Game Review: Magic Beans from Pixelthis Mobile
Flash Integration with the BREW Mobile Platform
Friday, June 13, 2008
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Will this help Youtube videos in mobile. If so, then it is a good one, current mobiles have a hard time playing Youtube videos except for iPhones.
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