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January 26, 2006
FlashLite 2.0 app: Stock Charts using the Drawing API
FlashLite 2.0 offers quite a bit in terms of better mobile application development. Trying out the new features, I've created the following application which provides stock quotes for any stock the user enters and charts the historic prices of that stock, which you're free to download and try out either on your PC or your FlashLite 2.0 enabled phone. Some of the great things about FlashLite 2.0 that I appreciated include the following:
- Speed of development: Being able to use ActionScript 2.0 for this project cut my development time to being able to complete this in under 10 hours.
- Drawing API: I love the drawing API and it's great to use it in mobile development. Particularly in this app, I'm able to download under 3K of data points in order to plot charts over the past year, 6 months, 3 months, and 5 days with great speed. The screenshot to right itself is over 16K (larger than the actual app). Image what four separate charts as images would be in size.
- UI Expressiveness: Although it's not a uniquely FlashLite 2.0 thing over FlashLite 1.1, nothing beats Flash for great expressiveness and great UIs.
So, without further ado, to download the swf, which will run on both your PC or your FlashLite 2.0 enabled mobile device ... CLICK HERE.
Posted by Peter Baird at January 26, 2006 11:55 AM
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Ciao Peter,
just trying your app and it does not load data either on PC or phone.
Alessadro
Posted by: Alessandro at January 26, 2006 12:54 PM
Sorry about that. Server issue ... was pointing to an protected server. I've uploaded a new version that points to a server thats freely accessible from all points.
Posted by: Peter Baird at January 26, 2006 12:59 PM
Ciao Peter,
nice job! Now wait and see how many people will ask you to extend it !!!
Alessandro
Posted by: Alessandro at January 26, 2006 01:08 PM
nice little app. :)
// chall3ng3r //
Posted by: chall3ng3r at January 26, 2006 01:36 PM
Noice work Peter
Posted by: Andrew Muller at January 26, 2006 04:21 PM
I have tried to deploy the FlashLiteStocks2.swf to my Nokia N73 and when i tried to open the file, it sends me the message "Damage File" is there any type of problem??
Thanks in Advice!!
Posted by: Ivanhoe at February 8, 2007 10:43 AM
hello,
where i download the new version flashlitestocks2
thanks
Posted by: gianni at January 3, 2008 07:58 AM
If you ported this to Actionscript 3 would the calculations for the lines be wrong since the size for the app would be bigger?
Posted by: me at March 25, 2008 01:45 PM