I said that I was working on a new app to release at SXSW. It is now complete so I would like to introduce to you SXSW Interactive, a Flash Lite conference guide.


I came up with the idea last weekend and started development on it Monday night. The first version was finished Tuesday late night (Wednesday early morning) but it had only been tested on a Sony Ericsson P910 (Symbian UIQ OS). Everything worked great and I thought it would be a simple port to the Symbian Series 60 OS. So I picked up a new Series 60 phone (Nokia 6260) on my way home from work Wednesday evening and quickly tried to test the UIQ version on it. Unfortunately I ran into a memory problem with the phone.

Originally it was developed so user wouldn't be required to be connected to view the conference information. Well SXSW has over 90 interactive panels this year, so I was dealing with around 400 variables sitting in the phones memory at all times. This put a noticeable strain on the P910, but it still worked. On the 6260 the phone would run out of memory after a few clicks though the app. With only having limited development time before the conference, and client projects that needed attention as well, I opted just to load in the data needed for the particular day the user was on. Needless to say everything is running great on all devices now, but users will need to be connected to use the app.

So without further explanation I present to you SXSW Interactive Mobile Conference Guide. Please download the appropriate file below and let me know if you come across any problems.

Series 60 Download

UIQ Download

Special thanks to Cody Beckner and John Bland for their help in developing and testing the application. And to Dale Rankine, who developed a similar application for MXDU, for answering my emails and giving me a heads up on the font face that looks so pretty on the Series 60 phones.