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What’s new in Adobe Device Central
To see a video tutorial introducing Adobe Device Central CS4,
visit the Adobe website at www.adobe.com/go/lrvid4062_dc.
- Adobe Captivate Support
- Adobe Device Central supports selecting devices and testing
content for Adobe Captivate®. You can find
the best preset screen sizes for targeted devices or select a custom
size. While working in Adobe Captivate, you can switch back and
forth to Device Central to test the content. See Create mobile content with Adobe Device Central and Adobe Captivate for more
information. (Adobe Captivate support is available in Adobe Device Central 2.1.)
- Online device library
- The online device library (or online library) always contains
the latest device updates, which you can download at any time. If
you have already downloaded the device, your local library indicates
that an update is available in the online library. You can download
the update with a single click. See About the online and local libraries for more information.
- Scripted testing
- Adobe Device Central supports batch-processing of test scripts.
You can record test scripts for one device and run the test scripts
on multiple devices. Also, you can include snapshot taking as part
of the test script. Snapshot logs can be saved as Adobe® PDF or HTML for presentation purposes. See Using scripts to automate testing for more information. To see
a video tutorial about automating the testing of mobile content,
visit the Adobe website at www.adobe.com/go/lrvid4063_dc.
- Snapshots
- You can take snapshots at certain frames on various devices,
and then view the snapshots in a log. In this way, you can quickly
see any problems with the images. With snapshots, you can also preview
how mobile content (bitmap, Adobe Flash Lite™,
video) appears on a selection of devices. You can export snapshots
to HTML for easy viewing by collaborators. Finally, you can incorporate
the taking of snapshots into test scripts that you create. See About snapshots for
more information.
- Network performance simulation
- You can use the controls on the new Network Performance testing
panel to throttle throughput and emulate the latency of various
wireless networks (2G/GSM, GPRS/EDGE, 3G) to simulate your Flash Lite
content’s performance in real life. You can trace details on incoming and
outgoing network traffic in the Flash Output window. See The Network Performance panel (Flash) for more information.
- Log window
- The Log window stores snapshots, including manual snapshots
or snapshots created as part of a scripted test session. The Log
window also serves as an output window for automated test results.
When you view the results of batch tests of multiple devices or
test scripts, the Log window organizes output by test session. See About the Log window for more information.
- Mobile project management
- Use the Project menu commands to manage and save all assets,
device profiles, and export options related to a mobile project in
one central location. The mobile project file (an XML file that
references files anywhere on your system) includes information about
what resource files (FLA, PSD, AI, SWF, PNG, GIF), device profiles,
and output tasks are related to the project. Projects can be shared
among users by exporting and importing (as an ADCP project file).
New Flash documents can be added automatically to the current project.
See Mobile project basics for more information. To see a video tutorial
about managing mobile projects, visit the Adobe website at www.adobe.com/go/lrvid4103_dc.
- Video recording
- You can create a video recording (QuickTime MOV file) of
a bitmap, video, or Flash Lite application showing its different
parts and how the user would navigate through them. Collaborators,
clients, and testers can review exported video on any computer without
the necessity of having Creative Suite installed. See About recording video for more information.
- Improved video integration
- Improvements in video integration include support for FLV
file emulation and recommended mobile export presets for Adobe Media
Encoder. You can also preview video output from After Effects® and Adobe
Premiere® Pro in Adobe Device Central, as
well as emulate FLV files in Flash Lite 3.0 content.
- After Effects integration: Device compositions
- Select devices in Device Central and automatically set up
an After Effects project (dimensions, render settings,
and so on) that targets those devices. Preview the different device compositions
in After Effects and test in Device Central. See Create After Effects compositions for playback on mobile devices for
more information. To see a video tutorial about creating compositions
for mobile devices, visit the Adobe website at www.adobe.com/go/lrvid4110_xp.
- Export options: automation of mobile content packaging
and deployment
- You can define project-specific output services (Copy To
File System, Send To Bluetooth Device, Upload To FTP Server). Once
defined, these output services can be directly triggered from Adobe
Device Central. See Using tasks for more information.
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