my litl adventures

I noticed litl will be demoing at the Flash Mobile event in Las Vegas in a couple of weeks

Looks like the litl team has a new video covering a 5 minute quickstart to developing for the litl.

Ryan Canulla has posted a quick and super easy video showing how simple it is to get started building a litl channel with FlashBuilder. With all the tools and sample channels litl provides, Ryan demonstrates how you can be coding and even testing the channel in our Simulator in less than 5 minutes.

I wanted to gauge the performance of the litl with a very processor intensive HYPE piece so I ran it on the MBP (intel) and then on the litl (atom) to see the barrier is.

Despite the lag, the response is not as bad as I thought it would be … there is a lot going on, alpha transitioning, vibration of the objects, and the mouse follow, plus more stuff I crammed into the experiment by tweaking some of the HYPE presets.

This is unoptimized, and an early version I had without the effects ran pretty nicely. I just wanted to push the processor limit on the litl … I didn’t kill the litl which is a good thing.

Fernando Colaco interviews Chuck Freedman about the litl at Flash and the City 2010 NYC.

litl interview at FATC 2010

Some of the Flash team at litl has posted their slides and materials from FATC (flash and the city) 2010

“a litl SDK for Flash and Flex” slides have been posted by @KROTONDO.

For more info about the workshop at FATC which hosted litl, you can check out this post.

Apparently litl has hired a Flash SDK Support agent. Pretty cool. It’s also pretty obvious what that means … that they seriously want to build their Flash content catalog (for one thing).

As I had guessed back in early 2010, litl is apparently working on a new product to add to their litl webbook.

Since the litl is a digital home laptop, it would make perfect sense to tie it to some sort of TV, DVR, or hybrid multi-media product for home use. After all, 2010 is turning into the the year of easily attainable large screen displays, smarter home appliances, and next generation home entertainment (e.g. 3D TV’s, game consoles, media players, etc).

Chuck Freedman (litl) recently had a blog posting where he gave a few very high level hints on what they are working on these days.

“… Flash-Based “Web-Connected TV” device on the market, running litl OS as well as ALL channels built with our new SDK.”

Also, you can tell something obvious from this ‘hint’ (I won’t spell it out, though):

keynote audience will be the very first to see what we have in ’store’ for the Flash community.

What’s more, you can kind of gauge what type of hardware will be enabled in the new 10.1 SDK:

In the coming months, our SDK will be expanded to include “accelerometer movement, video chat, trackpad gestures, and microphone input” that will allow open development of “gaming, communication, entertainment and other experiences”.

Chuck ends the post with this, which makes it clear that litl will be sticking to Flash for the foreseeable future:

“We believe that our platform’s use of Flash will be the best and easiest way for developers to deliver great content and applications to the TV!”.

Having seen some of the capabilities of early HTML5, it’s pretty clear that if litl were to adopt that now, they wouldn’t be able to attain a lot of the cool stuff it’s device can do with Flash, right now. Maybe in 2-3 years they will adopt though. They do have a built in browser that supports the latest webkit, I believe. So, who knows what this device’s future holds in terms of Flash and the like.

Read Chuck’s post here.

Looks like litl hosted a Developer SDK Preview event a while back in their offices (I was apparently away in San Jose attending a mobile development conference). You read all about it here.

Here are some of the early adopters (a lot of familiar faces there).

Will be nice when litl moves to 10.1 later this year.

As part of Flash and the City conference happening this week, litl is going to be presenting on their new Flash SDK that will allow it possible for Flash professionals to develop content for the litl ecosystem in the not so distant future.

litl is presenting at 3:30 pm tomorrow, Thursday, May 13th, to 5:00 pm. If you’re already registered for FATC, join us to find out more about the SDK and developing Flash 10.1 content for the litl (BTW: sorry, the show is SOLD OUT, so you’ll have to find someone with an extra ticket to attend if you hadn’t already registered for the conference).

“Kathryn and I will demo the device, our new SDK, our Simulator and several sample channels. It should be a lot of fun and provide a great start to what we’re all expecting to be an awesome conference.”

– Chuck Freedman, chief channel evangelist for litl

You can get more info about the litl SDK here.

RIA Radio Episode 14: litl and Flash and the City

“Chuck Freedman, Evangelist at litl, and Kevin Suttle, Organizer at Flash and the City, join us to discuss the litl device and platform, and the upcoming announcement at Flash and the City May 14-16.

Leif Wells and Zach Stepek cohost. Live studio audience provided by Michelle Yaiser.”