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Omega Mobile interactive mobile Flash training

What:
Flash Design For Mobile Devices

When:
Spring 2010

Where:
San Francisco State University Downtown Center
Multimedia Studies Program
835 Market St.
San Francisco, CA 94103

Omega Mobile's Flash Design For Mobile Devices

In the era of rich mobile media development, your mobile future is here. Now, learn how to create it in this hands-on workshop. We'll give you all the information and practice you need to be on the cutting edge of creating Flash content for PDAs, mobile phones and next generation devices. We'll explore the mobile Flash landscape by looking at working prototypes and actual applications that leverage the current mobile Flash player technology.

In this class, each attendee is assigned their own computer to work on. Discussions are followed by exercises that show you exactly what you need to know to produce your own mobile content. We emphasize creating great mobile multimedia experiences for cell phones using Flash Lite. In addition to exploring development opportunities available today, you'll learn:
  • The capabilities and limitations of Flash for mobile development.
  • Best practices for planning your mobile projects.
  • How to efficiently convert Flash projects to mobile.
  • The entire production process from planning to testing and debugging on the device.
  • How to create engaging content and user experiences for small screens.
  • How to maximize memory and processor performance of your applications.
  • How to develop for multiple devices with minimal changes.
  • To tap into resources to get you started quickly
  • About handy third party utilities.
Who should take this class?
Anyone interested in developing rich media content for mobile devices including: mobile developers interested in Flash as a potential delivery platform and interface designers who want to use Flash for mobile design, Flash developers who wish to leverage their skills for mobile development, web designers who want to take advantage of the next big medium and anyone interested in Flash's capabilities for mobile devices.