Richard Leggett on New Media

Please join us in an online seminar at the end of this month (Feb 28th). Scott Janousek, Weyert de Boer and myself will be covering topics from our book Foundation Flash for Mobile Devices (Friends of ED).

The seminar will be broken into 3, with questions at the end and a raffle with some great prizes. Topics will include:

Part 1: Cool Flash Liteâ„¢ Wallpaper and Screen saver content - Scott Janousek
Join me as we do a quick overview on how to design, develop, and deploy cool wallpaper and screen savers for the latest devices supporting these Flash Lite multimedia content types. Note: We'll cover Nokia Series 40 and Series 60 devices in particular.

Part 2: Rapid Game Creation - Richard Leggett
In this part of the session we will examine creating a multi-player game using the new XMLSocket feature of Flash Lite 2.1 development with a simple example. This game will quiz users simultaneously head to head in a "brain training" exercise and then let them know how their competitor did. We will make use of Java for the backend and ActionScript 2 to power the game logic.

Part 3: Creating your own installers for the phone - Weyert de Boer
After you have created your cool Flash Lite wallpaper, screen saver, or game, you'll need to get it distributed to the mobile device. In this session we will examine how to create installers for Symbian mobile phones and for Windows Mobile/PocketPC-enabled PDAs. Learn how to create sis and cab files as well as how to create icons on the phone's main menu.

Please register now!