What is Flash Lite?

Flash Lite is the Flash technology specifically developed for mobile phones and consumer electronics devices. Flash Lite dramatically accelerates the delivery of rich content and browsing, and customized user interfaces. Designers and developers now have a new level of expressiveness, efficiency and interactivity for content creation.

Flash Lite has seen explosive adoption by OEMs, operators and developers in Japan and Asia, and is quickly growing worldwide. This growth is driven by the mature Flash authoring environment and rendering engine that delivers enhanced content and browsing, customized UI & a rich mobile experience across devices.

What are the new features in Flash Lite 2.x?
Flash Player Support
Flash Lite 2.x is based on the Flash 7 standard for content. This means that content developed in the latest Flash authoring environment can be re-purposed for mobile and consumer electronic devices.

Platform Support
Flash Lite 2.1 provides extended support across key open platforms, including Symbian S60 v2/v3, Qualcomm BREW 2.x/3.x and Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.

Dynamic XML Data Support
Flash Lite 2.x supports loading and parsing of external XML data in Flash content using the same XML handling methods as Flash Player 7.

Persistant Data
Flash Lite 2.x supports the ability to locally store and retrieve relevant, application-specific information such as preferences, high scores, usernames, etc. This provides a much more robust development environment.

Powerful and Dynamic Media
Flash Lite 2.x 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 2.x also provides video support and external multimedia support. This includes in place video as well as image loading (gif jpeg, png w/ transparency) and audio loading.

Action Script 2.0 support
Flash Lite 2.x 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.

Synchronized device sound
Flash Lite 2.x enables content developers to synchronize animation with sound data in device specific sound formats such as MIDI, SMAF, etc.

Compressed SWFs
Flash Lite 2.x supports the rendering of SWF files that are compressed by content developers using the Flash authoring tool. Flash Lite 2.x will decompress the SWF file before it starts processing and rendering the data.

Tighter device integration
Flash Lite 2.x includes embedded device fonts, dynamic multimedia (images, audio, video through device specific codecs), inline video, and pass-through to local codecs.

Hope this will be very useful for fast mobile software development.
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