Windows Phone Thoughts: Adobe Flash Lite 2.1 for Windows Mobile 5.0 Preview

"This preview release of Adobe® Flash® Lite™ 2.1 for Windows Mobile 5.0, planned for release later this year, allows mobile developers to create Flash Lite applications and content for both Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone and Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC configurations. Mobile developers can now benefit from cross-platform development since Flash Lite 2.1 for BREW is also based on Flash Lite 2.1 and allows repurposing of content and applications with minimal changes for another platform. Flash Lite 2.1 is based on the Flash 7 standard for content. This means that content developed in the Flash 7 authoring environment can be re-purposed for mobile and consumer electronic devices."



If you've been toying with Flash Lite, here's a chance to grab the latest developer preview for Windows Mobile 5.0. Flash Lite 2.1 Preview includes support for dynamic XML data, persistent data, powerful and dynamic media, text enhancements, ActionScript 2.0, synchronised device audio, and compressed SWF files. There's a messy process of player activation and it requires a device IMEI, so it looks like standalone PDAs are out of this one. :(