Flash Lite is here. Is your company ready?
The iPhone - and even its competitors - has catapulted public expectations for rich media experiences on mobile devices. A promise in the words of one iPhone commercial aired recently: "The internet...the real internet."
Well, if that's the case (and the jury is still out on this claim), then web developers will be spending more time learning the available languages necessary to create rich content for mobile devices and cell phones of all stripes and sizes. Adobe has been working on Flash Lite and has been creating developer tools for mobile devices for the last few years. Now they're offering Flash Lite tools and tutorials to a wider audience of web developers than ever before.
Among some helpful links that can help anyone get started developing content for these platforms, are these:
a blog by Bill Perry, an evangelist for mobile and devices at Adobe who is currently traveling in Asia to promote the technology and train new content developers.
Sony Ericson mobile phone site
blog of Mark Doherty, Adobe's Developer Evangelist in EMEA for mobile
And of course, the Adobe Developer site itself, which includes a great 'Community' area where some of the better known names (and their ideas) in this area are available.
Before diving in head-first however, understand that Flash Lite may only be a bridge to standardize performance across different computing and hand-held devices until all devices will possess the capability to run Flash 9 or higher without modifications. If you're in a hurry, use Flash Lite now. But a year or two down the road, you may be able to leave it aside and use Flash X (or Flex) exclusively.