Comments on: Will Flash Lite soon support Flash Player 9/Flex?

By: Lela Lampkin

Lela Lampkin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:19:48 +0000

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By: shaun

shaun — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:50:07 +0000

Given that the IPhone is going to be released very soon, I would hazard a guess that at WWDC something may be revealed that will shed light on the subject.

By: alimills

alimills — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 22:36:00 +0000

Not to be a grump, but does the answer matter? Flash Lite ships on very few phones in a useful way. I’ve shown my FL apps to many people only to be greeted with, “Sweet, I wish my phone supported Flash!”. Even many of the new phones that ship with Flash pre-installed and supported (like the Nokia 5300 I bought for my girlfriend) are doing so in a useless way. Sweet – you can add a Flash wall paper. Maybe sweet for someone in middle school… I’m interested in productivity apps.

OK, in 10 years when you can deploy multiple builds of an app to many devices (desktop, browser, palmtop) from a single code base it’ll be huge. I’m along for the ride, but it’s going to take a really long time. Listen to what people who’ve spent time on major FL projects have to say. The major problem with FL today isn’t the language – it arguably could have been with FL1. The problem is the devices. There aren’t enough of them that run Flash and the ones that do run it inconsistently.

And, forget about Verizon. The company and their BREW developer program are jokes.

I encourage exploring Flash Lite. I’ll continue. Just don’t be mislead that the primary problem with FL development is the language or development environment. It’s the devices.

I just realized – if there is a new FL player, it’s bad news because unlike the web where the Flash Player is easily distributed, the distribution model in the mobile space is to have an OEM install it for you. I don’t think there’s such a thing as upgrading the player on a pre-installed device. If there’s a new player, it’s going to take even longer for *most* phones to have it installed.

Argh…

Ali

By: John Dowdell

John Dowdell — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:18:51 +0000

Is “Mike” Steve Ballmer?

(The mobile Flash roadmap has had desktop/handheld codebase integration as a goal for awhile now. We still have to wait for official commitments as to the “when” of it, though.)

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:04:38 +0000

Maybe Flex 3 will compile to FlashPlayer 7 or 8? Maybe it will output AJAX apps? Maybe it will output SilverLight apps?

Or maybe, just maybe, the size of the SWFs it produces will be sufficiently small to put on a non-internal site?

By: Josh Tynjala

Josh Tynjala — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:47:25 +0000

I know the answer. Neener neener neener!