One of the main advantages of using Flash Lite for mobile content is the ability to rapidly design, develop, and deploy rich mobile experiences. Flash Professional 8, with its proven set of tools and the mobile emulator, provides an incredibly flexible authoring environment for creating Flash Lite content of all types.

Another advantage of Flash Lite is the ability to create a single piece of mobile content and have it play on various devices with minimal porting requirements. In the mobile world this is huge! However, as with anything on the fragmented mobile platform—especially among various global regions—some porting of content has to be done to suit the different handsets that can consume Flash mobile content.

This article explores issues I came across when porting content between mobile platforms (Nokia Series 60 and Series 40 handsets) and also between devices (mobile to iRiver U10 device). As you'll see, Flash really gives you a great platform for creating content once and deploying it across various devices with minimal effort.

Requirements

To follow this tutorial you will need to install the following software:

Flash Professional 8

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Flash Lite 1.1 player loaded on a mobile device (optional)

Prerequisite Knowledge

No previous knowledge of Flash required. This is for beginners to the Flash authoring environment.

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