Symbian signed will not consider Flash Lite content as passive
I've been part way through the process with Mphasis, and the end result is that if you want a menu icon that launches your Flash Lite content, you need to create a .exe file to launch the Flash file. But as soon as you include a .exe file in your .sis the content becomes 'active' and must be tested using the 'active content' criteria.
The main gripe I have with this is that instead of the €40 for passive content it then becomes €185 for active testing, even though there's pretty much nothing to test. Sure you need a pop-up message telling the user that you may use network traffic by going onto the internet, but this in theory can be achieved by adding a privacy statement, which is conveniently part of the packaging tool swf2go,
Also, even for passive content you need a publishers ID which (thankfully) is now $200 from Trustcenter , rather than the $400 it used to be from verisign.
The whole process is still a nightmare, and some bright spark should set up a service that takes a .swf and an icon and returns you with a .sis that's been through the whole signing process for you.
16-10-2007 07:48 PM
slitchfield
Symbian Signed Announce New $20 'Express Signed' Component
Symbian has announced a number of changes to the Symbian Signed program at today’s Smartphone Show in London’s ExCeL center. Joining the existing ‘Certified Signed’ and ‘ Open Signed’ areas of the program is a new ‘Express Signed’ service, which should be welcomed by a large number of smaller developers.
