The iPhone’s revolutionary user interface has changed the way we look at mobile devices. Web-only Content : Build using HTML. Hybrid application : Combination of Objective C and HTML. It primarily uses UIWebView component to render html content. Onscreen User Help is Minimal: Mobile users don’t have time to go through help manual or context help and a developer also doesn’t want to devote space and memory for help contents. Related posts: How to Develop Cost Effective Game Applications for the iPhone Adobe AIR & Flash Player 10.1– E.g. Mail. MORE >>

You could create simple HTML based courses (nuggets) or even simpler good old SMS based assessments. Flash is not supported on all devices; and to create something with a richer user experience, you need to look at creating apps. iUI or the iPhone User Interface Framework is a framework consisting of JavaScript library, CSS, and images for developing advanced mobile webapps and comparable/compatible devices. It is a jQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and other forward-thinking devices. SCORM Implementation For Mobile Devices. MORE >>

Adobe has confirmed the mobile Flash Player will be pulled from the Google Play store on August 15th. This means Android devices without the Flash Player will no longer have access to it. If you want Flash for your Android-based mobile device browsers, get it now! In a press release , Adobe says, “Devices that do not have Flash Player already installed are increasingly likely to be incompatible with Flash Player and will no longer be able to install it from the Google Play Store after August 15th.” to Android 4.1, MORE >>

Noticed how I focused on what I need to do NOW vs. shiny "new" features. -- Reasons for looking at changing development tools: Increasing use of mobile for training. Discomfort with Adobe’s mobile strategy for Captivate Feedback that Captivate is tricky to learn and not terribly intuitive. Have to post any HTML output to test. Mobile Test Note: HTML5 output only displays correctly on HTML5-compatible browsers. I posted HTML and HTML5 publications on an FTP site our team uses for evaluation and testing of online tutorials.) I am a Captivate shop. Captivate 5.5 MORE >>

The web has been alight with rumors and both joyful and angry proclamations after last week’s announcement by Adobe that they will be discontinuing development of the Flash Player for mobile devices, as well as contributing the Flex SDK to an open source foundation. This has ranged from targeted responses to wild chants of ‘Flash is Dead!’ After all, Adobe is a company that creates tools and is not just all about Flash. But perhaps, from a business sense, pushing forth on mobile solutions simply isn’t financially sound. Nice initial effort though! MORE >>