There is a good tutorial on using unicode characters with Flash content. The tutorial describes how to embed fonts in various languages in Flash. Read it here.

Actionscript Cookbook from Orielly publishers also has good discussion on using Unicode characters.

Adobe has some resources on their web site on working with multiple languages here.

  Adobe has written a case study on Sony Mylo. The study talks about how Flash Lite 3 is being used on the device and what Adobe brings to the table. I am not sure how the Mylo sales are doing, but it is an interesting device that competes with Nokia N800.

Download the case study here.

Adobe is working with Yahoo and Google to make Flash content searchable. Adobe has give ‘optimized’ Flash player to both that they can use to index. As of now, the search engines can not really look inside the Flash content. With this new technology, you can look inside the content and the search results will be able to give more accurate results.

Ubiquity games have developed a arcade style game called Ping that is also available for iriver clix. Check it out here. From their web site:

“This is a classic arcade style game. Break the center brick to level up. The game features a modular “level builder“, players may construct, play and save their own level designs.”

Samir Dash has written a recent article in Adobe Devnet on things to consider when writing in non-english language and how to translate from one language to another without disturbing the layout. Read the entire arcticle here.

There is a great presentation available from Scott Janousek on developing Flash Lite widgets for Chumby. Chumby as you know is an innovative device that comes with Flash Lite. Chumby has provided developers with several facilities to enable application development and is gaining in popularity. In fact they just got $12.5 million in funding.

You can see entire presentation here.

Remember Asteroid? One of the games that used to be on Windows 3.1 and then 95? Well- I found it on the internet here.  I remember playing this game for hours and not getting shot…..

Ravindra has created a free wallpaper. These will work with FL2 compatible devices.

You can download it here: http://www.nimoble.com/iRoom.html

Typical embedded system is limited in CPU and memory. Flash content often dictates the CPU and memory requirement, and could easily make or break the device. Therefore, Flash Lite content running on embedded system must be written so that you consume as little memory and CPU as possible. While doing so, the designer must also pay attention to the quality of work, and come up with the tradeoffs in performance vs the ‘looks’. Here are a few tips to optimize your content for images, and vector graphics.

 1. Bitmaps consume more memory than vecor counterparts. However, the advantage of bitmaps is that it provides a much detailed image. The swf file can grow rather large in size with bitmap impages. Flash Lite can only load a swf file of the order of say 1-2 MB on a low end cellphone device. Keep that in mind while writing content.

2. If you are looking to scale or rotate a bitmap, it is very CPU and memory intensive. So if your application requires scaling or rotating, you are better off using vector graphics.

3. Consider lowering of resolution of the bitmap images. Several handsets have a lower resolution screen, and if you are targetting mobile devices, you may not need the highest resolution.

5. Flash Lite does not support bitmap smoothing. A bitmap image thats not ’smoothened’ will look ‘pixelated’ or ‘jagged’. For example, the text below is not ’smooth’.

 but the text below appears ’smoothened’ at edges.

So if you are looking to create content that requires ’smoothing’ ,  Flash Lite is not the way to go.