How does FL 3.0/3.1 applications packaging differ for different Symbian devices?

[supriyaakg]

Is there any programmatical or packaging change for coding for any Nokia device supporting Flash Lite 3.0/3.1 applications? I have handled touch gestures and wanted to know if there is any other thing that I need to handle.

[sajisoft]

Hi Supriyaakg,
AFAIK both the version are very much same from packaging point of view. The only things that are advance in FL 3.1 are:

-Improved Web Browsing, 91% of top 500 internet sites.
-Flash 9 (AS2 only) support
-Local Connection / HTML Text / GetURL_target / CSS support / WMode
-H.264 support* / Improved video support (smoothing, seek)
-Improved memory handling for images
-MP3 Streaming support**
-Linux Reference port

Quoted from : Flash Mobile Blog

Best Regards,
SajiSoft

[supriyaakg]

Hi SajiSoft,

While testing on the remote access device, I have noticed that the video (video codec 'flv', audio codec 'mp3', packaged in an flv container) played for all available devices for S60, 3rd Edition, Feature Packs 1 and 2 and also the latest Symbian ^ 3 (N8, C7,...) but I could not see the video for Symbian 60 5th Edition Devices (since no sound is heard on the emulator, I can't even confirm the audio for the same).

Why was there such an anomaly?

[sajisoft]

Hi,
Do you want to say that your application work fine with FL2.0,FL 3.0 and FL 4 but not with 3.1 ? Then i dont think it is an issue of Flash Lite, it can be related to available memory on the device and may be the connection strength?. I suggest you to test it on a real device and if u dont have one, let me know the link to a sample under testing. I will do it for you.

Best Regards,
SajiSoft

[supriyaakg]

Hi SajiSoft,

My app should work on FL 3.x (not 2.0 atleast). I did check on the Nokia remote device emulators and the only problem was in playing the flv video (audio in mp3 codec and video in flv codec). What could be the problem of flv video not playing on the Symbian 5th Edition devices only?

[sajisoft]

Hi,
There can be number of reason for not running of the flv video in Symbian 5th edition devices. Try these settings for flv :
1. Codec ON2 VP6
2. Resolution 320x240 - 300 kbps
3. Frame Rate 15 FPS
4. Audio MP3 - 128 kbps
5. Format - FLV
Moreover, first try to run the flv locally and if it works then run it via network. Some useful articles are :
FLV fomat in Flash Lite
FLV Streaming in Flash Lite 3

Regards,
SajiSoft