Developer Connection: Flex Technology

Overview

• Top 10 Adobe Flex misconceptions
• Top 10 Adobe Flex and AIR applications for students
• Open source at Adobe
• SWF searchability FAQ
• How to promote your Flex application

• New to Flex? Learn about Flex and Flex Builder

Flex 4 beta

• Article: What's new in Flex 4 beta
• Article: Differences between Flex 3 and Flex 4 beta
• Article: Developing WorkflowLab: An inside look at the Adobe Flash Catalyst and Flex 4 development process
• Tutorial: Integrating PayPal Express Checkout with Flex and Adobe AIR
• Article: Introduction to viewports and scrolling in Flex 4 beta

Getting started

• Article: Introducing Flex SDK 3.2 and Flex Builder 3.0.2
• Video: Flex 4 sneak peek
• Article: Top 10 mistakes when building Flex applications
• White paper: Plan for RIA success (PDF, 108K)
• Tutorial: From tags to riches: Going from Web 1.0 to Flex
• Article: ActionScript collections and functional programming
• Tutorial: Getting started with Adobe Flash Collaboration Service beta
• Tutorial: Sharing data with Adobe Flash Collaboration Service beta - Part 1: Custom messaging (read the rest of this series)
• Tutorial: Creating a custom form validator in Flex
• Tutorial: Using the Text Layout Framework in Flex 3.2 or AIR 1.5
• Tutorial: Pixel Bender basics for Flex and AIR
• Tutorial: Deploy your first Flex application on Facebook
• Excerpt: Advanced reusability in Flex
• Tutorial: Creating Drupal sites with Flash or Flex
• Excerpt: Performance improvements

Flex best practices

• Part 1: Setting up your Flex project
• Part 2: Development practices

Understand Flex itemRenderers

• Part 1: Inline renderers
• Part 2: External renderers
• Part 3: Communication
• Part 4: States and transitions
• Part 5: Efficiency

Understand Flex itemEditors

• Part 1: Inline itemEditors
• Part 2: Editing events and complex editors
• Part 3: Using itemRenderers as itemEditors

Integrate with Flex

• Tutorial: Bridging the gap between Flex and Struts using FxStruts
• Tutorial: Integrating Flex with Seam using Flamingo
• Excerpt: Flexible Rails: Refactoring to RubyAMF
• Tutorial: Build a simple interaction between Flex and JavaScript using the ExternalInterface API
• Excerpt: Integrating via data and media services

Using Flex Ant Tasks to build Flex projects

• Part 1: Creating a build script for Flex
• Part 2: Adding build tasks

Getting started

• Video: Developers tell us why they use Flex
• Video: Total Training: Introducing Adobe Flex
• eBook: Flex Early Evaluation: Assessing Flex and Your Project Needs