FlashLite Development

Based on the Adobe Flash Platform, Adobe Flash Lite is a highly optimized implementation of the Flash runtime for mobile phones, consumer electronic devices, and Internet-connected digital home devices. Flash Lite enables OEMs and service providers to differentiate their devices via customized applications and user interfaces, a more complete web experience, and the ability to access video and rich content across devices. Flash Lite for the digital home enables the delivery of high-definition content and rich applications to Internet-connected TVs and TV-connected consumer electronic devices in the digital living room. Additionally, Flash Lite allows developers to quickly create engaging applications, accelerate time to market, and increase customer adoption. With the new distributable player solution from Adobe, developers can directly distribute rich mobile applications with the latest Flash Lite player to millions of smart phones.

Adobe Flash Lite is a lightweight version of Adobe Flash Player and this version is intended for mobile phones and other portable electronic devices, and allows users of these devices to view multimedia content and applications developed using Adobe's Flash tools, which had previously been available only on personal computers. Flash Lite is a development technology implemented at the client-side, or user interface layer. Recent changes to ActionScript allow Flash Lite to better integrate with and even compete with device-layer technologies like Java ME and BREW.

Flash Lite is a mobile development platform that can either be used in place of Java ME or run on top of Java ME in a Flash Lite Player. Other platforms include BREW, Symbian, and Windows Mobile. Flash Lite content may be viewed on handsets installed with the Flash Lite player in the same way that Java content may be viewed on phones with a Java ME runtime. Both of these technologies may be present on the same handset and do not compete directly. Applications, games and other content may be developed in either technology.

Key Features in Flash Lite:

• A more complete web experience on mobile devices by providing access to content and video created with Adobe Flash
• Delivery of high-definition video content and rich applications to Internet?connected TVs and TV?connected consumer electronic devices in the digital living room
• Optimized performance for mobile and digital home devices
• Object-based extension mechanism for accelerated UI and application design
• Integrated authoring environment for mobile devices
• Multiplatform support