Adobe Edge - A tool for designers to create HTML5 content

English: A bubble graphic overview showing the relations between interaction design and its overlapping disciplines. Deutsch: Eine Übersichtsgrafik, die Interaction Design in Relation zu seinen benachbarten Disziplinen zeigt. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Adobe® Edge is a new web motion and interaction design tool that allows designers to bring animated content to websites, using web standards like HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3.

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More about Adobe Flash Platform & SAP Integration

Rich Islands for Adobe Flash Platform - Flex 3.0 SDK support for SAP NetWeaver was introduced on the Java stack as of 711 SP2 and on the ABAP stack as of 701 SP3 and 711 SP2.  Because of incompatibilies with Flex SDK versions it is required that Flex SDK 3.0 is used to compile a Flash Island.  In particular Flex 3.4 introduces an incompatible change to an interface.  

Flex SDK 3.4 is therefore not supported.  Please see the Adobe bug here: 
https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-23171

How to create a colorpicker in SAP WebDynpro ABAP using Adobe Flex - A step-by-step guide on how to create an Adobe Flex component in Flash Builder and adding the SAP WD Libraries and integrating it with SAP WebDynpro ABAP UI. 

References:

A Book about Developing SAP Applications with Adobe Flex:
http://www.sappress.com/product.cfm?account=&product=H1951

Demonstration Video of Adobe Flex application on top of SAP:
http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/flexsappoc/

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Runtime Shared Libraries (RSLs)

runtime shared libraries (RSLs) can be individually loaded, cached, and used by multiple applications.

You use RSLs to reduce the size of Flex applications and there by reduce the time required to download the application.

RSLs are SWF files whose code is used as a shared library between different application SWF files.

there are two kinds of RSLs
* signed RSLs - Signed RSLs are libraries that are signed by Adobe and may be stored in the Flash Player Cache, which can be accessed by applications from any domain.
If you are using a signed RSL, the RSL may not have to be downloaded if the RSL is already in the Flash Player Cache. Singed RSLs have a .swz extension
* unsigned RSLs - are normal SWF files and are not loaded into the Flash Player Cache. They rely on browser's cache to keep them from being downloaded.

Getting Started with Flex 3 - Free eBook (PDF)

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Getting Started with Flex 3 - An Adobe Developer Library Pocket Guide for Developers
By Jack Herrington, Emily Kim
Compiled by Adobe Development Team
June 2008
Pages: 143
Series: Adobe Developer Library
ISBN 10: 0-596-52064-6 | ISBN 13: 9780596520649
Format: PDF



Book Download URL

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Introducing Flash Builder 4

Flash Builder is a commercial tool from Adobe focused on developer productivity. It supports the following capabilities.

• Intelligent coding help and templates
• Network monitor
• Interactive, step-through debugger
• Emulation and on-device debugging
• Visual design interfae
• Data access wizards
• Memory and performance profilers
• Automated testing support

Hello World in Flash Builder 4


Introducing Flash Builder 4


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Preparing Adobe Flex Development Environment (Part 2), updated

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Download Adobe Flash Builder (its a pretty big download of around 300 MB, please feel free to read ahead while download is progressing)

- Flash Builder 4 is available for Windows and Macintosh platform.

- During installation you will be required to close your browser(s) so that the installer can upgrade your version of Flash Player to the debugger version so that you can use the full debugging capabilities built into Flash Builder.

You can also install Adobe Flash Builder as a plugin over an existing Eclipse installation, while doing so it is recommended that you edit the eclipse.ini file for your Eclipse instance, so that it includes the following settings:

-vmargs -Xms256m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -XX:PermSize=64m

Highlights of Adobe Flash Builder 4.5:

“Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 can be used to Build for Android™, BlackBerry® Tablet OS, and iOS mobile platforms using a common code base”.

• Based on an Eclipse™ Plaform
• Rapid development of expressive mobile, web, and desktop applications
• Support for ActionScript®
• Building applications using open source Flex framework. 
• Supports for mobile application development and testing. 
• Development of applications using common code base to build apps for Android™, BlackBerry® Tablet OS, and iOS mobile platforms while sharing code from web applications.

Tips

• You can install a copy of Flash Builder 4 standalone with Flex Builder 2 or 3 installations on the same machine, it will not interfere with each other.
• Workspaces created in Flex Builder 2 or Flex Builder 3 are not supported by Flash Builder 4.
• You can import existing Flex Builder projects in Flash Builder 4, but a project modified by Flash Builder 4 will no longer open in Flex Builder 3 or Flex Builder 2.

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Getting Started With Adobe Flex

Below is my presentation about Apache Flex overview which covers high level details about what is Flex, its architecture, benefits ...

Apache Flex: Overview from Tarun Telang

Flex can be applied for the following solutions:

•Business systems/Applications

•Standalone custom solutions

•Network, communication and other interactive solutions

•Video and audio messaging solutions/ Collaboration Tools

•CRM and ERP systems

How to create an Application with Adobe Flex

The video below show how to use Flex Builder 3 and walks you true creating a new Flex Builder project demonstrating new functionality available in this release.

More DIY videos at 5min.com

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Preparing Adobe Flex Development Environment (Part 1), updated.

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Development Tools Overview 

• Adobe Flash® Builder™ (formerly Flex Builder) - Eclipse™ based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) designed to help software developers build rich Internet applications (RIAs) using the open source Flex framework (including both web and Adobe AIR base desktop applicaitons).While Flex applications can be built using only the free open source framework, developers can use Adobe® Flash® Builder™ software to dramatically accelerate development. It provides useful features for a developer to perform design, development, and debugging of applications in effective manner.
• Adobe Flex SDK - The Adobe Flex® SDK provides the core Flex compilers, Flex framework component library and debugger. Using only the free SDK and an IDE of your choice, you can build and deploy rich Flex applications. (If you are using Flash Builder 4, the SDK is already included.).  This is the link to Download Flex 4 SDK.
• Adobe Flash Catalyst™  (codenamed "Thermo") -  Flash Catalyst is a new professional interaction design tool for rapidly creating user interfaces without coding. Sales of this product has ended in April 2012. Flash Catalyst is no longer be available in future versions of Adobe Creative Suite® software. Adobe recommends interaction designers to consider Creative Suite 6 Master Collection, which is now a professional creative tools to create interactive ubiquitous apps (with reach vitually universal reach).
• Slider: Flex Mobile Framework - A mobile version of the Flex framework which will enable Flex developers to build mobile applications for smartphones and other high-end mobile devices.

The following video provided a brief introduction to of Flex Builder 3 ?

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Getting Inspired & Exploring the possibilities of Adobe Flex, updated

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Now its time to browse some Rich Internet Applications (RIA) built in Adobe Flex.

Rich Internet Applications are web applications that works like full fledged desktop applications.

They can be delivered to the user through a site specific browser either through a plug in or virtual machines.

A site-specific browser (SSB) is a software application that is dedicated to accessing pages from a single source (site) on a computer network such as the Internet or a private intranet. SSBs typically simplify the more complex functions of a web browser by excluding the menus, toolbars and browser chrome associated with functions that are external to the workings of a single site. These applications can be started by using mostly a desktop icon using the favicon.^[1]

Examples of site-specific browser

• Mozilla Prism - https://mozillalabs.com/en-US/prism/ 
• Robin Web Browser - http://raven.io/ 
• Fluid App - http://fluidapp.com/

RIAs let you perform in-line editing, drag and drop items or otherwise interact directly with elements.
Popular browser based RIAs include Flickr, Google Maps, and eBay.

Why Adobe Flex ?

Flex is a highly productive, free open source framework for building and maintaining expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems.

Flex applications can be built using Flex SDK or Adobe Flex Builder 3. It is basically a collection of technologies developed by Adobe which can be used for the development of cross platform Rich Internet Applications (RIA).

Flex applications can be delivered on the web via the Flash Player or to the desktop via Adobe AIR

Flex requires server-side technologies like Java, SAP NetWeaver, ASP.NET or PHP to provide it with real-time data.

Adobe Flex is used across broad variety of industries and use cases.

Flex showcase which is a Flex application letting you browse and search for publicly available Flex applications. Many companies are developing Flex RIAs for internal applications.

Feel free to explore different the Flex showcase on your own, this will provides you with good inspiration and great ideas, and will lets you see what Adobe Flex is capable of.

1. Adobe Flex Showcase
2. Adobe AIR Application Showcase

Flex development can be beneficial not only to developers but also to end-users. Due to Flex programming model you can get scalable and reliable solutions. Even these solutions can be re-designed whenever needed. 

Please click the link below to get Tour de Flex application which provides over 600 running samples with source code!

 "Tour de Flex" and "Tour de Flex Mobile" - provides collection of Flex applications showcasing the capabilities of the technology for web/desktop and mobile application development respectively.

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Preparing your Runtime enviroment, updated

The so-called “Pepper” implementation of Flash Player provides a layer between the plugin and browser that abstracts away differences between browser and operating system implementations. It is an API Co-developed by Google and Adobe for hosting plugins within the browser.
1) Version Test for Flash Player
2) Installing the latest Flash Player Google Chrome browser includes Adobe® Flash® Player built-in. Google Chrome will automatically update when new versions of Flash Player are available.
3) Installing Adobe AIR
4) Flash Player Version Penetration - check this link if you are wondering which version of Flash Player would be best for you.


Watch the video below to Learn about Flash Player Integration and Support

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Introduction to Adobe AIR

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Introduction to Adobe Flash Player and take a Flex Test Drive, updated

The following are three main Rich Internet Applications technologies from Adobe:

1. Adobe Flex, 
2. Flash Player and 
3. Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)

To begin learning about Flash Player start reading with What is micromedia flash player (wiki.answers.com)

Flash Platform is used to build

• Enterprise applicaitons
• SasS (Software as a Service)
• Consumer applications, 
• Rich media applications, 
• Video applications (e.g. YouTube), 
• Social applications
• Games

Note: Adobe has abandoned developing Flash for mobile device. 

To know about the current version of Flash Player visit the URL: https://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

Flex Test Drive: Build an application in an hour

Remark: You should be able to upgrade the Flex SDK without having to get your clients upgrade their Flash Player unless during major releases, to bring some predictability and allows developers to plan their upgrade cycles.

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