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Check if your site is compatible with mobile devices in Adobe Device Central CS5

Leonardo França — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:08:11 +0000

nsurprisingly the growing use of mobile devices like smartphones, tablets, etc. With the great increase in access to 3G data network, we have a new class of users that need special attention. Did your site is compatible with mobile devices? if not, it should be because the mobile user can be just who will purchase your product or service.

Did your site is compatible with mobile devices? if not, it should be because the mobile user can be just who will purchase your product or service.

The major banks have already realized this and most already have a version of its Internet banking to mobile devices, including to perform operations that you normally do on the site to pay bills, view balances etc..
Adobe Device Central software is a part of Adobe Creative Suite family that aims to emulate the operation of mobile devices on your desktop. It is mainly used to test the functionality of Flash Lite on smartphones. But it can also be used to test your html pages and simulate the operation of any mobile device.

To open a page or site in Adobe Device Central CS5, just follow these steps:

After opening the program, go to “Device Profiles” and click “Browse Devices”. A list of profiles of models of smartphones, select a few for your tests (right-click and ask for the “Add to Test Devices”)
Should see the selected device and its technical specification. Now just go to “File-> Open File …” to open a file or “File-> Open URL …” to open a site directly. In my case, ask to open the url of my blog on Nokia 5230:
Adobe Device Central CS5

You also have the option to call the Adobe Device Central Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 directly by, just ask “File-> Preview in Browser-> Device Central”.
On my blog, I use the plugin WordPress Mobile Edition which formats the blog to be accessed on mobile devices.

Adobe Device Central is included in the following Creative Suite 5 products:

More:
http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/devicecentral/?promoid=ZALP

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Developing games for the Nintendo Wii with Adobe Flash

Leonardo França — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:34:19 +0000

The Nintendo Wii is one of today's most popular console, with their control until then innovative for its release, became a video game "for family" and for various utilities. Today, the Nintendo Wii is used in various parts of the world not only for entertainment but also in areas such as physiotherapy for recovering patients

Today, the Nintendo Wii is used in various parts of the world not only for entertainment but also in areas such as physiotherapy for recovering patients

Well, we know it is possible to develop Flash for the Nintendo Wii, but we must observe some details first. Consider the specification of the Flash Player for the Nintendo Wii contained in Adobe Device Central CS5.

Specification Flash Player in Nintendo Wii

Note that we have to work with Flash Player 7, but Nintendo's website says it can be upgraded to Flash Player 8, and the application will run for the Wii browser, your browser is a version of Opera made exclusively for the Wii.
Wikipedia say that it updated Flash Player to Adobe Flash Lite 3.1 which corresponds to a full implementation of Adobe Flash version 8 with certain features of Flash Player 9. But i created a file Flash Player 9 with ActionScript 2.0 and it worked, Flash Player 9 with ActionScript 3.0 does not work and Flash Lite 3.1 worked. I stayed with Flash Player 9 with ActionScript 2.0 for my test. (System.capabilities.version show AFL 9,1,122,0)
Let's do an example first to see how is the operation of the Flash Player with the Wii Remote.

Create a new file type ActionScript 2.0 and soon after, put the movie to compile in Flash Player 8 or 9. Or you can do this directly through Adobe Device Central CS5, which leaves everything configured for you, including the size ideial to run on the Wii browser.
The purpose of this example is to evaluate the functioning of the buttons of the Wii Remote, create a symbol of type MovieClip.
Enter the following code in the movieclip so that our symbol can be dragged by the Wii Remote:
PLAIN TEXT
ACTIONSCRIPT:
1. onClipEvent(mouseDown)
2. {
3. this.startDrag();
4. }
5. onClipEvent(mouseUp)
6. {
7. this.stopDrag();
8. }

From what I understand, only in mouse events we can use the Nintendo Wii was not possible to use the other buttons and directional pad.
You can test the example by opening the following URL in the browser from the Wii http://www.leonardofranca.com.br/wii or watch the video below.

Despite the limitation of only using the mouse events, can you make very interesting applications in Flash for the Nintendo Wii. I leave a link with some games for the Nintendo Wii made in Flash.
http://www.eiksoft.com/wii/index.htm

More:
Documentation ActionScript 2.0

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Using Accelerometer on Flash Lite with Nokia Platform Services

Leonardo França — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:17:39 +0000

Accelerometer is a motion sensor, one device responsible for measuring the relative positions of the axes x, y and z, ie, calculate the acceleration of the object. Today it is used for a variety of utilities such as: air bags, vibration measurement, measurement of inclination, smartphones, video games etc.

The accelerometer is used today is used for a variety of utilities such as: air bags, vibration measurement, measurement of inclination, smartphones, video games etc.

Flash Player 10.1 (only for mobile) and Flash Lite 4.0 have access to the device's accelerometer. I'm anxious to get their hands on a Nokia N8 to test new features Flash Lite 4.0, but this hard. Meanwhile, we are developing with Flash Lite 3.0 and 3.1.
Nokia has created a library especially for working with Flash Lite feature that gives access to natively are not possible as access to the accelerometer, GPS, calendar, contacts etc.

Nokia has created a library especially for working with Flash Lite feature that gives access to natively are not possible as access to the accelerometer, GPS, calendar, contacts etc.

I'll show a simple example of using the accelerometer with Flash Lite 3.0 and Nokia Platform Services.
Download the library Nokia and then save the directory under your operating system:

Nokia Platform Services only works on devices running Symbian S60 5th.

Mac - /Users//Library/Application/Support/Adobe/Flash CS5/en/Configuration/Classes/
Windows Vista - /Users//AppData/Local/Adobe/Flash CS4/en/Configuration/Classes.
Windows XP - //Local Settings/Application Data/Adobe/Flash CS5/en/Configuration/Classes/

We will start our first example:

Create a file of type ActionScript 2.0 and ask them to compile for Flash Lite 3.0 or 3.1. Or you can create directly from Adobe Device Central CS5.
Create a symbol of type MovieClip and give it the instance name of "ball_mc".
Create three text fields of type dynamic, therein are shown the positions x, y and z.
We must have a stage like this:
Stage for test Accelerometer

This done, let's now part of programming:
We will start setting the stage for not changing the size of the application if the window is resized. The "DisableKeypadCompatibilityMode" is for use in smartphones with touch screens, if not used, the smartphone will automatically add the virtual keys corresponding to a non-touchscreen smartphone.

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