Flex Technology Overview

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Creating a Simple Application with Adobe Flex Builder

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key points about Flex technology that is relevant to this module.

• Flex applications are compiled to SWF files.
• Flex is a programmer-centric framework and development environment for creating Flash-based rich internet applications.
• Flex applications are executed in ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM) inside Flash Player.
• Flex is a client-side technology.
• Flex can integrate well with server-based technologies like ColdFusion, PHP, ASP.NET and Java EE.
• Flex can retrieve plain text or XML data over HTTP service.
• Flex can also retrieve Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) messages using web services.

You may also refer ActionScript Coding Convention for Flex SDK.

Introducing Flash/Flex Builder

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Intoducing Flash Builder


Introduction to Flex Builder 3

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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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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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FlexJS - An introduction from OmPrakash Muppirala

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