Adobe MAX 2008/09 Mobile Guide
Author: Maxim Antinori
The Adobe MAX 2008 Mobile Guide app is available now for your Flash Lite 3.0 enabled Symbian phone. I developed this app for Untravel Media, and hope folks find it useful for exploring some of the MAX sessions on the go. There’s some video segments in there as well related to mobile from some luminaries of the Flash Lite community, Bill Perry, Peter Kacandes, James Talbot, Evan Kirchhoff…
This is an unsigned app currently, so make sure your App Mgr settings “Software Installation” is set to ALL to allow unsigned apps like this to install properly.
Also, if you experience problems with the .sis install, and your phone supports Nokia’s WRT, try downloading the .wgz install package, just below the .sis link, titled “Flash Lite 3.0 — North America”. In particular the WRT version is meant to address a bug in the Nokia North America firmware that prevents Flash Lite from accessing the network. (Thanks Rob Toole for that tip!) The WRT version also gets around the “auto-rotate” issue with videos in Flash Lite that exists in the currently released firmware, which hopefully will be fixed in the next firmware releases. Currently the rotation bug is handled by dynamically adjusting the layout on the fly.
Feel free to post any comments here on problems running the guide. Although I’ve tested successfully on a number of devices, I have had reports of issues with video/network connectivity, as well as a couple others. Devices it has been tested on (some via Nokia’s Remote Device Access, which isn’t as good as “real world” device testing, but…) are: N95, N95 8GB, N96, E71, N82, N78, E66, 6220 Classic. I have heard problems running videos with E71 from some users. So many phones, so many flavors of phones…
Lastly, if you have problems with the .sisx or .wgz versions, the raw SWF has been provided as an additional link.
Hope you enjoy it!
Max
November 17th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Hi Max,
I was wondering why there is no fl2 version of the app because I think you would target more max attendees no? other then that I like it, i like the simple but efficient navigation flow and the little max guy telling you what to do
btw feel free to play our mobile max game: http://labs.boulevart.be
November 17th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Thomas,
Part of the decision was related to the guide targeting the just released distributable player, which is FL 3.1. Part of it is having a bit more flexibility on the video implementation, such as using flv as the standard format instead of worrying about the different formats of video support on the phones. I like using rtmp and FMS and streaming the flv’s as well. But you’re right, we potentially lost some FL 2 users.
It probably would be relatively easy to unhook the video menu and offer up a FL 2.x version of just the session info part. Hmm…
Max