Content management

Flash Lite 3.0 provides an API that allows a device’s host software to read information from SWF metadata, which is standard information embedded in SWF files. If the host chooses to implement this functionality, then the metadata information can be used by Flash Lite content developers to organize and categorize content on the device.

The following categories of information can be included as metadata. Please note that some of these categories may be implemented differently (or not at all) by the manufacturer of the devices for which you are developing content.

Title

Description

Content Author

Name of content author.

Company Name

Company name of content author.

Title

Title of content.

Description

Description of the content.

Copyright Information

Relevant copyright details.

Content Version

Version number of content (NOT Flash version).

Content Type(s)

Content type(s) categories for content file. See the content type table that follows for content type lexicon.

Forward Lock

Specifies if the content file can be transferred to another device.

Supported Display Resolutions

List of resolutions supported by content.

Icon

Type and location of icon for content.

Flash Player Profile

Version of Flash/Flash Lite for which the content was published.

Storage Size

Storage size (size of SharedObject) required by the content. If size is unspecified, the content is assigned the default size set by the platform (generally 4KB).

Background Alpha

Preferred alpha value and blend mode for the background transparency feature.

Looping

Looping behavior: content either repeats indefinitely or stops after the last frame.

Default Quality

Quality level at which the content should be played.

The following content types can be used to segment content for devices and control some aspects of how the content is handled.

Content type

Description

Screensaver

Flash animation that is shown when a device-specified timeout occurs

Ringtone

Animation played when phone is receiving an incoming call

Background

Animated wallpaper that is displayed behind the idle/home screen

Game

Interactive game

Application

Standalone application

Presentation

Presentation converted to a Flash movie

Icon

Flash-based animated icon

Movie

Animated Flash movie

Skin

Skin or theme for the phone or a single application

Startup

Startup animation

Shutdown

Shutdown animation

Other

Flash content that does not fit into any of the above categories