Although the Flash Lite 1.1 player has been out for a while to developers, it's now starting to make an impact in the marketplace by being preinstalled on many new models of handsets being released in 2006. It's an exciting time for those of us working in the space, and we hope that more and more Flash developers will look at getting into mobile content.

However the mobile content space is already quite saturated with non-Flash content: ringtones, wallpapers, Java games, and so on. To really make inroads into the wider mobile developer community, we need to target these existing developers with Flash Lite.

This article is based on the Flash Lite 1.1: Mobile Application Development instructor-led training course we developed. It shows you the type of content contained within the training curriculum. It is aimed squarely at mobile developers who have little experience with Flash as well as existing Flash developers who wish to make the leap to developing mobile content.

As in all Adobe authorized courseware, students "learn by doing." All of the best practices we mention in this article are incorporated into a real-life application.

Requirements

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

Flash Professional 8

• Try
• Buy

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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