Flash on Devices

I gave this presentation at the Vermont Flash User Group in 2008 to a small group of Flash Developers.

USER GROUP: http://vt.groups.adobe.com/

Transcript

1. Copyright 2008 Hooken Mobile. All rights reserved. Flash on Devices An Overview
2. Copyright 2008 Hooken Mobile. All rights reserved. Intro Scott Janousek Founder & Lead Developer, Hooken Mobile Developer, Evangelist, CoAuthor, Educator Flash for 8 years Mobile & Devices going on 4 years webOS, Symbian, Android, iPhone = Core Targets
3. Copyright 2008 Hooken Mobile. All rights reserved. Desktop Flash Experiences Widgets Advertising Video Consumer Tools Social Apps Business Apps Games Widgets, Advertising Consumer Tools Business Applications Video Games Social Applications
4. Copyright 2008 Hooken Mobile. All rights reserved. Flash on Devices - Verticals User Interface /Personalization Web Applications (Games, Social Media, Financial, etc) Data Services (e.g. Flash Cast, Flash Home)
5. Copyright 2008 Hooken Mobile. All rights reserved. Flash is pervasive of Internet-enabled PC’s in the world run Flash of Alexa top 100 websites are using Flash of all video on the web is Flash 87% of Internet connected PCs worldwide have installed Flash Player 10 200 million AIR installs and growing
6. Copyright 2008 Hooken Mobile. All rights reserved. Desktop to Device Web content & applications Standalone Applications
7. Copyright 2008 Hooken Mobile. All rights reserved. Flash Mobile Experiences Sample Flash (Lite) screensavers, games, applications ...
8. Copyright 2008 Hooken Mobile. All rights reserved. Open Screen Project Singular experience, Multiple devices Enable consumers to engage with rich Internet experiences seamlessly across any device, anywhere. www.openscreenproject.org
9. Copyright 2008 Hooken Mobile. All rights reserved. Open Screen Project Open Screen Project partners span the entire value chain Chipset vendors > OEMs > Operators > Brands & Content Providers www.openscreenproject.org
10. Copyright 2008 Hooken Mobile. All rights reserved. Flash Device Penetration Strategy Analytics forecasts: 1 billion Flash enabled devices will have shipped by end of Q1 2009, one year ahead of Adobe’s 2007 schedule Close to 40% of all new mobile devices shipped with Flash in 2008 Source: Strategy Analytics 2008 www. ashmobileblog.com
11. Copyright 2008 Hooken Mobile. All rights reserved. Flash Enabled Devices Portables Non-Portables
12. Copyright 2008 Hooken Mobile. All rights reserved. Smart Phones with Flash HTC Hero (Android) Sony Ericsson idou Palm Pre (webOS)* Nokia N97 (S60 - Symbian) * Flash Support announced
13. Copyright 2008 Hooken Mobile. All rights reserved. Why no Flash on iPhone? Suspicions point to ...
14. Copyright 2008 Hooken Mobile. All rights reserved. Flash Future on iPhone? 10% likely - Competition forces Apple to adopt Flash Player (browser) 90% likely - Apple continues to “snub” * * Adobe, or 3rd party, may possibly create software to port Flash content natively to iPhone.
15. Copyright 2008 Hooken Mobile. All rights reserved. Adobe Flash Platform Tools to Design & Develop Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Adobe Flash Builder Framework Adobe Flex Clients Adobe Flash Player Adobe AIR Servers Adobe Flash Media Server Family BlazeDS Data Services Adobe Flash Catalyst
16. Copyright 2008 Hooken Mobile. All rights reserved. “Flash Mobile” .swf = Flash Content . v = Flash Video Flash Lite 1.x/2.x/3.x ... and soon, “Flash 10” Supported Device Platforms = Dozens of OEMS
17. Copyright 2008 Hooken Mobile. All rights reserved. Flash Lite vs. Flash Flash Lite is an optimized Flash Player for Mobile & Devices (1.x/2.x/3.x) Flash 10 is coming soon to top-tier Mobile and other Devices (eta 2010) Source: Strategy Analytics 2008 www. ashmobileblog.com
18. Copyright 2008 Hooken Mobile. All rights reserved. Flash Mobile Platform Flash Cast (OEM only) Flash Home (OEM only) Flash Lite for Digital Home Adobe Products & Services Adobe Creative Suite 4 (“CS4”) Flash CS4 Device Central CS4 Adobe Mobile Packager Tools Device Players Flash Lite 1.x/2.x/3.x Flash for BREW Flash 10 (for SmartPhones) Adobe Distributable Player
19. Copyright 2008 Hooken Mobile. All rights reserved. Flash Mobile App Stores
20. Copyright 2008 Hooken Mobile. All rights reserved. Flash Lite Work ow create > package > distribute > consumption
21. Copyright 2008 Hooken Mobile. All rights reserved. Flash CS4 (or Open Source equivalent) + Device Central CS4 Adobe Mobile Packager (or equivalent) Flash Lite and other Flash Ecosystems Flash Lite Work ow
22. Copyright 2008 Hooken Mobile. All rights reserved. Flash CS4
23. Copyright 2008 Hooken Mobile. All rights reserved. Device Central CS4
24. Copyright 2008 Hooken Mobile. All rights reserved. Adobe Mobile Packager Supports creation of an installable le for user-friendly discovery on S60 and Windows Mobile devices
25. Copyright 2008 Hooken Mobile. All rights reserved. Flash Lite 3.1 Distributable Player Source: Strategy Analytics 2008 www. ashmobileblog.com Enables development of standalone applications that can be directly distributed to smartphones Availability: Symbian S60, Windows Mobile Over 30 million devices and growing Updated seamlessly over the air Key Features: Supports Flash 8 and ActionScript 2.0 content, applications & games Video (On2 VP6, Sorensen, 3GPP, H.264) Audio MP3 streaming Data services, Remoting via XML
26. Copyright 2008 Hooken Mobile. All rights reserved. Species Explorer 1.0 Geolocation (GPS) Camera Snapshots & Upload Data Exchange with Drupal API Features Summary Touchscreen App Flash Lite 3.x application Platform = Nokia S60 (Symbian) Targets = 5800 & N97 3-4 weeks project time
27. Copyright 2008 Hooken Mobile. All rights reserved. Species Explorer 1.0 Main menu Login Report Browse Details Map http://www.speciesexplorer.org/
28. Copyright 2008 Hooken Mobile. All rights reserved. Resources & Links www. ashmobileblog.com www. ashmobilebook.com www.openscreenproject.com www.adobe.com/go/4it/ ashmobile.scottjanousek.com www.adobe.com/mobile www.mobiledevjobs.org
29. Copyright 2008 Hooken Mobile. All rights reserved. Thanks! scott@scottjanousek.com twitter: scottjanousek scottjanousek@hookenmobile.com twitter: hookenmobile
30. Copyright 2008 Hooken Mobile. All rights reserved. Announcements MOBILE CONFERENCES
31. Copyright 2008 Hooken Mobile. All rights reserved. FITC MOBILE 2009 iPhone, webOS, Flash, Blackberry, Android, & more!
32. Copyright 2008 Hooken Mobile. All rights reserved. iPhone Conference October 17-18 2009 MCLE Conference Center Boston, Massachusetts www.voicesthatmatter.com