FlashLite Version Detection update
So if you’re an active FlashLite or Flash developer who keeps an eye on the mobile space, you may have noticed something that happened last month with one of the web’s largest Flash delivery site: YouTube. The change was around the mechanism they used for version detection, and draws attention back to a topic close to the heart of every mobile developer (flash or otherwise): user-agent detection. more...
Over the Air: 48 Hours of Mobile Development, 4-5 April London
Registration has just opened for an extraordinary event happening in London over the 4th and 5th of April. Over the Air is a free mobile developer conference covering a wide range of technologies and topics combined with a hands-on code-camp style un-conference. There will be talks and master-class type sessions on a range of technologies and platforms, including Java, Flash, Microsoft, Mobile Web, Android, Series-60, Widgets and Network APIs. There will be a strong user experience theme with sessions on prototyping, mobile design and human factors. more...
Mobile Web Design - Beyond Simple XHTML Pages II
SVG, or Scalable Vector Graphics, is "a language for describing two-dimensional graphics and graphical applications in XML."3 Or in English, SVG enables a designer to render vector images and animations within the browser using numerical coordinates rather than pixels. SVG Tiny is a baseline profile of SVG, implementable on a range of devices, and described by the W3C thusly: more...
Flash Lite and Video Streaming
The aim of this article is to provide the basic knowledge needed to start with Flash Lite and its compelling multimedia capabilities. We start with a basic introduction to Flash Lite, describing its history and capabilities. This is followed by a description of the tools necessary to develop Flash Lite applications. Towards the end we outline a simple application for streaming video with Flash Lite. more...
Mobile Web Design
A special treat for mobiForge users. We have the pleasure of bringing you a number of excerpts from Cameron Moll's recently published book Mobile Web Design.Mobile Web Design is aimed at anyone "in a position to develop for, manage, or give advice regarding your organization’s foray into—or extended development of—a web strategy for mobile devices". The book covers a variety of topics related to mobile web design, starting with some background and the current state-of-the-art, and stresses the importance of context when developing for mobile. more...
