I do believe there are open source apps to create flash files,
however, I'm
no expert on the subject and am too lazy to hunt for links right
now :p
maybe someone who's had experience on this side of things could say
something on their quality.
I _am_ a Flash designer/developer, and there are some very nice tools
out there for doing Flash development in an open source way. There
really is no equivalent for the visual-design portion of the Flash
editing application, but MTASC is a Flash compiler that is very, very
nice.
http://www.mtasc.org/
There is also a web site called Open Source Flash that lists similar
open source projects useful for creating Flash content:
http://osflash.org/
Also, flash based UIs I seen while looking good
are quite slow and jerky even on powerful (and power consuming)
desktop
machines so they're hardly usable.Of course this is my own private
opinition and it is safe to ignore it.
It depends on the designer/developer. Just as there are many, many
bad C/C++ applications, and many, many bad HTML sites, there are
many, many bad Flash interfaces. But, there will always be some
really amazing, responsive examples of Flash interfaces, done by
people who understand the limitations of the technology and ways
around those limitations.
There are some youtube vids of the prototype chumby in action where it
doesn't look too sluggish - it has similar specs to the p1 fic1973,
however
it is running an adobe closed source flash player that may be
faster than
gnash.
This is possibly true. I did talk to the lead developer of Gnash a
few months back, however, and he said that they did recently get
Gnash to play YouTube videos. So, I'm guessing it's not too terribly
slow (I haven't checked the progress on it lately).
I personally like the idea of having a ui that is designable by
people who
work on websites who have more design skills than the average c
haxxor...
Combined with an onboard webserver, one could do some fun things like
transplant the phone's ui to whatever full computer you have handy.
It opens up the phone to a whole different realm of developers, and
that, in my opinion, is the best aspect of getting something like
Gnash/Flash on the phone.
It would be fun to run some chumby things on the fic but I would
imagine
*JUST* having a flash ui might be limiting for some projects - as a
musician
I would dread using a flash metronome, it would never have the
timing of
gtick.
As a Flash developer, even I wouldn't want that. Options are good,
especially considering the open nature of the phone.
J.
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