
Sony Ericsson UI Components
With Sony Ericsson UI components, Flash developers can now build custom user interfaces in a fraction of the time it used to take without compromising too much on performance and memory. Sony Ericsson has introduced a great set of Flash Lite User Interface components, and they are all packed in one MXP file.
These UI components are light, robust, and customizable. They can be easily re-used by Flash developers to rapidly build complex and appealing Flash Lite applications. Sony Ericsson Flash Lite UI components include for example Scrollbar, different kinds of lists, Slider, Softkey, Progress bars, and many other useful UI components.
Sony Ericsson UI components have been carefully crafted to address the needs of both the limitations of mobile phones and the passion of the Flash designers, so that they are optimized and are accessible to swiftly revolutionize the way they look and feel in terms of skin, colors, fonts, transparency, animation and many other properties that can change from application to application.
Here is a list of the components (as at 2.0 beta):
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Here are some of the components:

Here are some examples using the UI components as they are delivered, and with extra customization to make them look just how you want:
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Standard radio button and customized softkey components |
Customized two-line list and softkeys |
Customized list and softkeys, showing automatic scrolling of a long string in the sub-text part. |
For more information, you can also read the UI Component Catalog.
Please visit the Capuchin / Flash Lite community forum to ask questions and share experiences.
UI Components MXP for Adobe® Flash CS3 and CS4. Release Notes
Note: In the case of having Flash CS4 professional or having both Adobe Flash CS3 and CS4 professional installed on your computer. To make the components install correctly, it is recommended when installing the components in Flash CS4 to launch the Adobe Extension Manager CS4 from Flash CS4 main menu. Go to the main menu > help > mange extensions. When the Extension Manager CS4 is open, on the top right, click on the Install icon to add the components to your Flash IDE. Starting the Adobe Extension Manager from Flash CS4 professional will pass the correct parameters which will help in copying the UI components to the correct installation folders.
We will periodically update the MXP package and add new components over time – do check back here for new releases.
Describes the components in detail and provides tips and tricks on their usage and customization.
Four demo applications with tutorial documents, source code and installation files: ColorizeMyPhone, MP3Player, Translator, Twitter. Read more>>
Sony Ericsson's Adobe® Flash Lite™ Developers' Guidelines now include an extensive appendix covering optimization guidelines and an accompanying movie clip useful for monitoring free memory levels, frames per second and other benchmarking figures during application testing.
This tutorial explains how battery, signal strength and time phone data from a Sony Ericsson phone can be presented as dynamic Flash Lite™ 2.0 animations. This tutorial is written by ustwo™ and the pixel illustrations were created for ustwo by Gary Lucken, a pixel artist who produces illustrations and artwork for international clients and publications.
This tutorial introduces Adobe® Flash Lite™ and walks developers through creating a small magazine application called MyWorld to show how web-style information can be viewed on a mobile phone without using the WAP style list of text and blue links. Available in Chinese>>
The tutorial is describing how to use data from the phone to create dynamic animations by using the example of how to create a simple clock animation, using the system time from the phone. The tutorial has been authored by Chris Petty from Blueskynorth Ltd. a Smashing Ideas company.
This tutorial describes how to get started with mobile application development in Adobe Flash Lite 1.1 with the introduction of Adobe Device Central. The tutorial has been authored by Chris Petty from BlueskyNorth Ltd. a Smashing Ideas company and is the first document in a series of tutorials on the topic.
This tutorial describes how to develop Flash Lite content for Sony Ericsson phones using Adobe Device Central.The tutorial has been authored by Chris Petty from BlueskyNorth Ltd. a Smashing Ideas company and is the second document in a series of tutorials on the topic.Available in Chinese>>
This tutorial describes how to get started using sound in Adobe Flash Lite 1.1 content for Sony Ericsson phones. This tutorial was authored by Hayden Porter. Hayden is a Flash mobile developer and musician with a special interest in integrating sound and music with mobile devices. Available in Chinese>>
Demo of Flash Lite used in a Sony Ericsson Theme
This video was produced by third-party Flash Lite evangelist Bill Perry and introduces how Adobe Flash Lite can be used in designing the "ever changing" theme on the Sony Ericsson S500i phone. The video shows how the Flash Lite based theme interacts with various APIs related to the phone calendar function.
Please note: Certain items presented in this video are locked – such as building the Desktop screen in Flash Lite – and can only accessed with Sony Ericsson's permission.
Sony Ericsson UI Components
With Sony Ericsson UI components, Flash developers can now build custom user interfaces in a fraction of the time it used to take without compromising too much on performance and memory. Sony Ericsson has introduced a great set of Flash Lite User Interface components, and they are all packed in one MXP file.
These UI components are light, robust, and customizable. They can be easily re-used by Flash developers to rapidly build complex and appealing Flash Lite applications. Sony Ericsson Flash Lite UI components include for example Scrollbar, different kinds of lists, Slider, Softkey, Progress bars, and many other useful UI components.
Sony Ericsson UI components have been carefully crafted to address the needs of both the limitations of mobile phones and the passion of the Flash designers, so that they are optimized and are accessible to swiftly revolutionize the way they look and feel in terms of skin, colors, fonts, transparency, animation and many other properties that can change from application to application.
Sony Ericsson UI components have been carefully crafted to address the needs of both the limitations of mobile phones and the passion of the Flash designers, so that they are optimized and are accessible to swiftly revolutionize the way they look and feel in terms of skin, colors, fonts, transparency, animation and many other properties that can change from application to application.
Here is a list of the components (as at 2.0 beta):
|
|
Here are some of the components:

Here are some examples using the UI components as they are delivered, and with extra customization to make them look just how you want:
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
Standard radio button and customized softkey components |
Customized two-line list and softkeys |
Customized list and softkeys, showing automatic scrolling of a long string in the sub-text part. |
For more information, you can also read the UI Component Catalog.
Please visit the Capuchin / Flash Lite community forum to ask questions and share experiences.
UI Components MXP for Adobe® Flash CS3 and CS4. Release Notes
Note: In the case of having Flash CS4 professional or having both Adobe Flash CS3 and CS4 professional installed on your computer. To make the components install correctly, it is recommended when installing the components in Flash CS4 to launch the Adobe Extension Manager CS4 from Flash CS4 main menu. Go to the main menu > help > mange extensions. When the Extension Manager CS4 is open, on the top right, click on the Install icon to add the components to your Flash IDE. Starting the Adobe Extension Manager from Flash CS4 professional will pass the correct parameters which will help in copying the UI components to the correct installation folders.
We will periodically update the MXP package and add new components over time – do check back here for new releases.
Describes the components in detail and provides tips and tricks on their usage and customization.
Four demo applications with tutorial documents, source code and installation files: ColorizeMyPhone, MP3Player, Translator, Twitter. Read more>>
Technical Documents
Sony Ericsson's Adobe® Flash Lite™ Developers' Guidelines now include an extensive appendix covering optimization guidelines and an accompanying movie clip useful for monitoring free memory levels, frames per second and other benchmarking figures during application testing.
Tutorials
This tutorial explains how battery, signal strength and time phone data from a Sony Ericsson phone can be presented as dynamic Flash Lite™ 2.0 animations. This tutorial is written by ustwo™ and the pixel illustrations were created for ustwo by Gary Lucken, a pixel artist who produces illustrations and artwork for international clients and publications.
This tutorial introduces Adobe® Flash Lite™ and walks developers through creating a small magazine application called MyWorld to show how web-style information can be viewed on a mobile phone without using the WAP style list of text and blue links. Available in Chinese>>
The tutorial is describing how to use data from the phone to create dynamic animations by using the example of how to create a simple clock animation, using the system time from the phone. The tutorial has been authored by Chris Petty from Blueskynorth Ltd. a Smashing Ideas company.
This tutorial describes how to get started with mobile application development in Adobe Flash Lite 1.1 with the introduction of Adobe Device Central. The tutorial has been authored by Chris Petty from BlueskyNorth Ltd. a Smashing Ideas company and is the first document in a series of tutorials on the topic.
This tutorial describes how to develop Flash Lite content for Sony Ericsson phones using Adobe Device Central.The tutorial has been authored by Chris Petty from BlueskyNorth Ltd. a Smashing Ideas company and is the second document in a series of tutorials on the topic. Available in Chinese>>
This tutorial describes how to get started using sound in Adobe Flash Lite 1.1 content for Sony Ericsson phones. This tutorial was authored by Hayden Porter. Hayden is a Flash mobile developer and musician with a special interest in integrating sound and music with mobile devices. Available in Chinese>>
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