August 4th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air | 2 Comments »
Flash Lite rocks! So that for starters. We went over the post from AllAboutSymbian with a 6670 from Nokia. Cheap as we are, we used the Mobizines shortcut to get hold of the player which was no problem from outsid the UK except for the fact that the online form was not working for our number formatting.
The installing of the flash player took some time, but went flawless. Using a test OTA platform developed, we fired off three swf files from the example archive of AllAboutSymbian. We noticed that it’s confusing for the user that after downloading the app fires up directly. The user needs to select options?save by himself or after closing down, he or she will not own the actual download. As a general rule, left softbutton is options and right softbutton is used to close the app. Not all apps in the example notify the user about that which is confusing as well. So game and app designers should do this in general. Another problem we see is the fact that the files seem not to be protected at all. We can just BT and E-mail them all over the place without any problem.
So this new technology faces a couple of problems. First, no intuitive way of installing. No use of softbuttons unless you create a .sis wrapper idea like Mobizines which is a disaster for game designers. No decent protection for your file and finally a market that will probably be swamped by homebrew projects.
So even though we are really happy about Flash and the way it all looks, we see the market will need to survive a lot of the problems associated with this new technology.
What’s a ‘Mobizine’?
A magazine for display on your mobile.