A more complete web experience New
The Adobe® Flash® Lite® runtime enables a more complete web experience on mobile devices by providing access to content and video created with Adobe Flash. With support for rendering of SWF files for Flash Player 8, you can view your favorite web videos and popular news and entertainment sites. Today, content and video created with Adobe Flash technology is pervasively deployed throughout the worldwide web and has changed the way people engage with rich Internet content.
Content created with Adobe Flash technology reaches more than 98% of Internet viewers with over 30 million SWF files online today. And more than 80% of web video is in FLV format.
Though Flash Lite for the digital home does not currently support the web browsing use case, rich SWF and FLV web content can be supported in the digital home via a standalone application based on Flash technology.
A more complete web experience
H.264 support
Flash Lite 3.1 includes H.264-standard video support, the same standard deployed in Blu‐ray and HD‐DVD high-definition video players and HD web videos. Flash Lite playback of H.264 video on mobile devices will be dependent on the OEM's implementation on the device for seamless playback and delivery of H.264 video.
Flash Lite for the digital home includes a VideoDecoder driver module that provides the ability to substitute optimized codecs for the default software implementations and to supply a codec for H.264, which is not included with the product.
Faster performance
Flash Lite 3 performance has been optimized through more efficient resource management, resulting in improved rendering, scripting speed, and code optimization for mobile devices.
Flash Lite for the digital home enables the execution of 720p30 Flash content (1280x720 at 30 frames per second) on hardware for faster performance.
Object-based extension mechanism
The object-oriented extension mechanism in Flash Lite 3 provides easier and faster integration with device APIs, allowing OEMs greater UI customization and a faster time to market. Integrate with device APIs such as call logs, memory management, browsers, media players, productivity tools, and more.
Integrated authoring environment
Developers can build, preview, and test Flash Lite 3 content using Adobe Flash CS4 Professional and Adobe Device Central CS4 in Adobe Creative Suite® 4 software. Developers can also receive regularly updated device profiles to stay current with new Flash Lite device releases. Manufacturers can use the web-based Adobe Device Intelligence Portal for worldwide publishing of their device information to Adobe authoring tools.
Integrated authoring environment
Persistent data
Flash Lite supports the ability to locally store and retrieve relevant, application-specific information such as preferences, high scores, usernames, and so on, providing a robust development environment.
Persistent data
Text enhancement
Flash Lite enables users to modify text color, size, and other properties at runtime, providing improved display and handling of fonts. OEMs can also choose to embed vector fonts into their applications in order to render text. Flash Lite also supports rendering of text in right-to-left languages such as Arabic and Hebrew.
Text enhancement
ActionScript 2.0 support
Flash Lite supports ActionScript® 2.0, based on the ECMA-262 standard. Flash Lite content can now be developed with a modern event model (movie clip and object events), tab index control, shape-drawing API, and better SWF compression.
Compressed SWF files
Flash Lite supports the rendering of SWF files that are compressed by content developers using the Flash authoring tool. Flash Lite will decompress the SWF file before it starts processing and rendering the data.
FLV support
Flash Lite 3 supports FLV, the most popular video format on the Internet, best known from popular sites such as CNN, YouTube, and MySpace. With Flash Lite 3, users can engage with web video on their mobile and digital home devices just as they do on the desktop, either by streaming video or by downloading video clips as standalone applications or when integrated with a mobile web browser for mobile phones. Flash Lite 3 includes support for the On2 VP6 and Sorenson video codecs.
FLV support
Multiplatform support
Flash Lite is highly portable and can be ported to a variety of leading operating systems on mobile and digital home devices. Many of the world's largest OEMs and operators are shipping Flash Lite enabled devices, including Broadcom, Intel, Texas Instruments, BenQ, China Mobile, iriver, KDDI, Kodak, LG, Motorola, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, and Verizon Wireless.
Automated Testing System (ATS)
Using the ATS in Flash Lite 3, OEMs can reduce testing times by up to 85%, accelerating time to market. ATS provides the following key benefits:
- The ability to localize ATS test case instructions
- An interface that enables testing teams to communicate and collaborate on testing-related activities
- The ability to upload results to Adobe for ATS verification testing
- Introduction of the ATS Automation Test Library with the Flash Lite library
- APIs specified to the port Test Library on devices
- Automated testing of the ATS and uploading of results via the Certification Portal
Dynamic XML data
Flash Lite supports loading and parsing of external XML data in content created with Adobe Flash technology using the same XML handling methods as Flash Player.
Dynamic XML data
Powerful and dynamic media
Flash Lite enables dynamic loading of multimedia content such as images, sound, and video based on supported codecs available on the device. This includes loading and handling XML data and SWF content. Flash Lite also provides video support and external multimedia support. This includes in-place video as well as image loading (GIF, JPEG, and PNG with transparency) and audio loading.
Powerful and dynamic media
Shape-drawing ActionScript API
Flash Lite enables developers to easily create sophisticated vector graphics and animated shapes at runtime using ActionScript 2.0.
Shape-drawing ActionScript API
Synchronized device sound
Flash Lite enables content developers to synchronize animation with sound data in device-specific sound formats such as MIDI and SMAF.
Tighter device integration
Flash Lite includes embedded device fonts, dynamic multimedia (images, audio, and video through device-specific codecs), inline video, and pass-through to local codecs.
