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Introduction to Flash Lite

Adobe Flash Lite is a lightweight version of Flash, designed for resource constrained mobile applications and portable electronic devices. Flash Lite developers/designers can create rich multimedia content like animations, cartoons, widgets, and games for mobile phones. Flash Lite 1.1 supports Flash 4 ActionScript, while Flash Lite 2.0 is compatible with Flash Player 7, and Flash Lite 3 is based on Flash 8. Flash Lite applications can be created either as standalone application or browser-based content. If a mobile phone has the Flash Lite standalone player, the content is played as a standalone application, otherwise it is played within the web browser in mobile phone.

When developing Flash Lite contents on your development computer, use Device Central, Adobe’s emulator tool for testing and previewing Flash Lite content. Adobe Device Central includes regularly updated mobile phone profiles that include detailed information on the mobile device’s screen size, performance, form factor specifications, and supported media types and device skins. When testing on your development computer is done, load the content to the phone and test it in the production environment. Adobe also provides a Contents Developer Kit (CDK) that provides developers with authoring guidelines on how to develop Flash applications for mobile phones.

With Flash Lite, Flash developers and designers can quickly and easily port their existing Flash content from the desktop environment to mobile phone environments and enter the growing mobile phone market.

The following lists the main advantages of Flash Lite:

Flash Lite in LG Phones

LG is putting significant research into developing better end-user experiences utilizing Flash Lite. Recently LG has released the first mobile phone to fully implement the user-interface in Flash Lite for a higher-quality end-user experience. While Flash Lite phones are not the majority of the mobile phone market yet, LG is expanding its range of Flash Lite capable phones and the content available for them.

The LG Prada phone’s entire touch screen UI is implemented using Flash Lite 2.1. The following Prada phone screenshots show Flash Lite content on the phone: idle mode, wallpaper, the menu, and a world clock.

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To learn more about the purposes of these technologies and toolkits see the Adobe Flash Lite.

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