LG released a new document on it’s developers site entitled “Flash Lite Developer Guides for LG Phones”:

This Guide is intended to make it easier for developers to create Adobe® Flash® Lite™ applications for LG mobile phones equipped with Flash Lite. The Guide provides Flash Lite 2.0 and 3.0 supported LG phone features, and tips on how to optimize Flash Lite applications.

Following are a few images showing how LG made the LG Prada UI using Flash Lite 2.1:

The only question I have is Why so BLOATED? 17 pages where 3-4 would have been enough. The real text begins at page 10 and even that is just a brief introduction to Flash Lite. Anyway, they published some nicely organized information on Flash Lite supporting devices:
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A quick audio interview with Riku Salminen from Nokia, by the guys at WOW Tech Minute blog. They had a quick chat with him during Adobe MAX 2008 in Milan.

Sony Ericsson’s developers site published a new article entitled New Project Capuchin tutorial with RSS feeds, Motion Sensor API (JSR 256) and Flash Lite UI :

An example of using Sony Ericsson’s Project Capuchin API, this new tutorial illustrates how to create an application where RSS feeds are retrieved by a Java ME application and presented on the phone screen over a Flash Lite UI. Adding an extra dimension, this tutorial and accompanying code takes you through the steps of using the Motion Sensor API (JSR 256) to retrieve accelerometer data to control the motion of a Flash UI.

Scott Janousek posted about an event he’s taking part in this Friday (Oct. 10th) in Boston - Programming advanced Nokia Features with Flash Lite.

The speakers include:

• Ganesh Sivaraman, Internet and Web 2.0 Business Development Manager, Forum Nokia
• Robert Burdick, Senior Architect for Emerging Technologies, Forum Nokia
• James Talbot, Adobe
• Alessandro Pace, Forum Nokia Champion
• Scott Janousek, Forum Nokia Champion
• Rob Toole, Fidelity
• Ira Hochman, Untravel Media

Scott is going to talk on “Programming Advanced Nokia Features with Flash Lite” which sounds pretty interesting. Also, in the event page it’s said Attendees will also be eligible to win Nokia N95 - 8GB smart phones. And there is free food.

You can check out the agenda and then head to register.

Pasi Manninen keeps testing KunerLite plugins and report to the community. Kuneri have done 11 nice plugins to extend Flash Lite applications and Pasi went out to test some of them. This article he covers the taking, playing and sending video to a remote server. Read more »

Pasi Manninen decided to test KunerLite plugins and report to the community. Kuneri have done 11 nice plugins to extend Flash Lite applications and Pasi went out to test some of them.
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Felipe Sampaio posted a new wiki entry on Forum Nokia wiki covering the making of a bluetooth chat using Kuneri Lite.

In this tutorial we will follow a step-by-step guide to create a chat by Bluetooth using Kuneri Lite. Kuneri Lite allows access to the S60 features (Bluetooth, GPS, Camera, …) that we haven’t access directly from Flash Lite.

There is sample source attached to the wiki. Grab it here.

Device Profile Update #6 for Adobe Device Central CS3 has been published by Adobe.

Adobe’s Bill Perry and Forum Nokia’s Stephen Ellis are going to give a 1-hour webinar on the topic of Flash and Mobile Browsing. The webinar is scheduled for June 5 (next Thursday) at 10am PST (5pm GMT). Register and read details here.

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