Creating Mobile Content Using Flash

Creating Mobile Content Take advantage of the proliferation of Flash by creating experiences that are optimized for multiple screens. •  Design considerations •  Optimization techniques •  Device specific capabilities ©2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved.

Flash Player Penetration by 2012 350 Total Smartphones 300 Smartphones with Flash Player Millions of Smartphones 250 200 53% 150 100 35% 50 9% 0 2009 2010 2011 2012 Source: Strategy Analytics smartphone forecast (January 2010) and Adobe adoption estimates ©2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved.

Smartphones with Flash Player 10.1 Unofficial List! • Nexus One • Motorola Droid 2 • Motorola Droid X • Motorola Droid • HTC Desire • HTC Legend • HTC Incredible • HTC Wildfire • HTC Aria • Samsung Galaxy S • Palm Pre ©2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved.

Text and Context  14pt font size  San serif (Arial, Helvetica, Verdana)  High contrast (black on white, white on black)  Use opaque background over transparency ©2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 9

Graphics   Consider bitmaps over vectors   Minimize number of vectors   Test with different qualities of Stage Avoid, if possible:   Filters   Blend modes   Transparency   Perspective distortion ©2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved.

ActionScript Optimization   Set frame rate as low as possible   Dynamically adjust frame rate   Consolidate into a single handler   Use GPU accelerated Bitmap Transformations (cacheAsBitmapMatrix)   Bitmap Blitting ©2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved.

Designed for New Platforms Brings full Flash Player feature set to devices Mobile-ready features that take advantage of native device capabilities:   Multi-touch and gestures   Accelerometer input   Geolocation   Mobile text input   Optimized SWF management for mobile   Sleep mode   Graphics hardware acceleration   H.264 video hardware decoding ©2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved.

Publishing Flash Player: In the Browser AIR: Beyond the Browser   Build standalone applications using Flash   Everything Flash Player 10.1 has and then some   First mobile operating system to be supported is Android   Provides Flash developers access to app stores ©2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved.

AIR for Android: Setup  Get the Android SDK: http://developer.android.com/sdk Allows you to create and install apps on your device   Android - SDK Manager to install packages etc.   ADB – Android Device Debugger installs apps on your device   DDMS - Dalvik Debug Monitor for desktop simulation.  Join the AIR Prerelease http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air/   Get AIR for Android runtime .apk installed   Get the AIR for Android Extension for Flash CS5 to make apps ©2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved.

Resources DROID Does Flash ■  ptrani@adobe.com hosted by Adobe & Motorola ■  www.adobetv.com Thursday, September 16, 2010 ■  http://www.paultrani.com from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM (PT) ■  www.bytearray.org ■  http://www.RIAgora.com ■  http://www.flashmobileblog.com ■  http://www.gotoandlearn.com ■  http://www.blackcj.com ©2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved.

Creating Mobile Content Using Flash

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