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Adobe Flash Lite 2.1 for Windows Mobile 5.0 Preview

I have a Treo 700w and have been looking into Flash Players for the Window Mobile 5 OS since I got the phone. The PocketPC Flash Player 7 came out earlier this year and worked well with FLV's but not Flex (at least with Treo 700w small memory size).

Yesterday Flash Lite 2.1 for Windows Mobile 5.0 was annouced as a preview on Adobe labs site. I went ahead and downloaded the Flash Lite player, copied it over through ActiveSync and installed in on my Treo 700w. You then have to navigate to the Program Files/Adobe/FlashLite folder and click on saplaywm.exe file. This creates a License document that you need to open and read. The License document provides a url and a key to register your Flash Lite player to your phone. All a bunch of steps, it feels weird registering a Flash Player to a device.

Now I need some content to test things out, but I didn't know how to create it. I first opened my Treo 700w browser to see how it would handle regular Flash Player 7 SWF's (Note: I still have PocketPC Flash Player 7 on the phone). Well, it seems Flash Lite 2.1 installed over the PocketPC Flash Player 7 because when I went to a site with Flash Player 7 SWF's it gave me the below text in place of the SWF's.

"Flash Lite 2.1 for Windows Mobile 5 will support Flash 7 content authored for mobile devices only."

I went ahead and downloaded the Flash Lite update for Flash Professional 8. I downloaded and install the Flash Professional 8 updater and created a simple animation. I exported as Flash Lite 2.0 (no Flash Lite 2.1) and put it up on my server here. I fired up my Treo 700w and pointed to my test URL and to my disappointment I received the same message as above.

How do I create content for Flash Lite 2.1, that will work on Windows Mobile 5?

I see the Flash Lite 2.1 for BREW conversion kit stuff, but creating mobile content is a little confusing.

UPDATE:

The fix had to do with the HTML, this is what it is suppose to look like (note the different "classid"):

PLAIN TEXT

XML:

<object id="flash"
classid="CLSID:EB8B5B8E-EDB9-4180-9E2E-F8F1632DC171"
width="150" height="150">
<param name="movie" value="Flash2_1_test.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="low" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#110000" />
<param name="loop" value="true" />
</object>

Thanks Vijayan

You can also find the Windows Mobile 5 Flash Lite 2.1 documentation on labs.adobe.com.

9 comments September 13th, 2006

Static Flash Classes and Loader Dangling Pointers

I did not know what to call this post. I have tried to get enough key words into it so if anybody else came across this issue they would find the post. This post is basically about Flash but the issue became apparent while messing with loading Flash animation SWF's into a Flex 1.5 application.

Continue Reading Add comment September 8th, 2006

Flash will turn the big One Zero (Happy 10th Birthday)

Flash will officially be 10 years young on Wednesday, August 9, 2006. It just happens that it will be around my own birthday. Now I am a little older than 10 years but time sure does fly by.

Well I decided to provide a link to one of my first Flash creations. It was an old site for my BMX Dirt Jumping brother. You can find it here!

It has sound, dragable menu system (a picture of my bro doing an Indian Flare) and even some stick figures swinging in a tree. The videos are not linked in any more but most other part of the Flash file work. Its crazy to celebrate Flash's 10th birthday with so much on the horizon and I can't wait to see what the next 10 have in store.

Be sure to check with your local user groups to see what celebrations are planned.

Oh yeah, here is a link to some people that are trying to gather up old Flash examples.

4 comments July 27th, 2006

One More Reason to get Flash Player 9

I read the post at beedigital.com and followed it over to Secunia.

Here is an excerpt:

The vulnerability is caused due to unspecified memory access errors within the handling of SWF files and can be exploited via a specially crafted SWF file

Continue Reading Add comment July 12th, 2006

Flash Player 9 Penetration

(update) Myspace.com hack to help Flash Player 9 pentration numbers.

It has been basically 8 days since the release of Flash Player 9. We have all been told that the pentration of this browser should gain a larger percentage faster then earlier Flash Players. This is because of the newer improvement installation methods.

Continue Reading 8 comments July 7th, 2006

Opera Mobile 8.6 support Flash? which Flash Player and PocketPC

On July 4th Opera release a press item about their new Opera Mobile 8.6 browser for Windows Mobile 5.0 will be the recommended browser for a new device, called Sharp W-ZERO3[es].

There is a bit of information that sparked my attention: