Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Launching Flash Lite v2.x Content on Nokia phones

There is a serious, documented issue with launching Flash Lite v2.x files (SWF) on Nokia phones. In short, v2.x content can only be launched by opening the SWF file within the v2.x players. If you just open the SWF file from the file browser, it will be played back by either the player in the ROM (typically v1.x) or you will get a "unknown file format" error. For more details, see the discussion at the Adobe forum and Nokia blog. One workaround is using the SWF2Go Professional tool (not free) to build an SIS installer.

On Windows Mobile 5, opening SWF files launches Flash Lite (v2.1) player as expected.

No comments: