Flash Lite ( 1.1 , 2.0 & 3.0 ) brief

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• Filed under: Tutorials & Tips
• Date: Apr 14,2008
• Tags: Adobe, Flash, flash lite 1.1, flash lite 2.0, flash lite 3.0, Java, Symbian, Windows Mobile

Adobe Flash Lite is a lightweight version of Adobe Flash Player optimized for mobile phones and other non-phone, portable electronic devices like Chumby and iRiver. Flash Lite 1.1 supports Flash 4 ActionScript. Flash Lite 2.0, based on Flash Player 7, supports Flash 7’s more powerful ActionScript 2.0. Flash Lite 3 allows mobile device manufacturers, operators and content providers to differentiate their offerings by giving users the ability to watch Flash Player compatible video, the world’s most popular video format, and browse Flash enabled Web sites when integrated with a mobile Web browser.All versions also support the W3C Standard SVG Tiny (a mobile profile of W3C’s Scalable Vector Graphics recommendation). The advantage over SVG is the ability to add audio and interactive elements without the use of other technologies such as JavaScript.

Flash Lite is considered a client-side, or user interface (UI) layer, development technology. In this realm Flash Lite competes with other technologies like Qualcomm’s uiOne markup language and Sun’s JavaFX Script. Because of the more powerful ActionScript advances it is more able to integrate with and even compete with device-layer technologies like J2MEBREW. Flash Lite should not be considered a mobile operating system like Symbian OS, Windows Mobile, Mac OS X for mobile. and

As with Flash, Flash Lite benefits from the ability to read and redraw external XML content.

Future

During the Adobe 2007 Financial Analyst Meeting , several key developments and forecasts of Flash Lite were presented.

In December 2006, 220M Flash Lite devices had been shipped. This is predicted to approach 1.2B in 2010, mostly due to the acquisition of some key vector rendering technology by Actimagine which will reduce the Flash Lite player memory footprint.

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