Adobe Flex 4.5.1 – Mobile applications
In this video we will start looking at creating Adobe Flex based applications for the Apple iOS, Google Android and Blackberry tablet platforms.
This video covers creating a basic application, configuring the first run of the application and a brief overview of the interface changes in Flash Builder.
Adobe has released a much anticipated update for Flex and Flash Builder that allows developers to now visually design and code mobile applications not only for Google’s Android platform but also the ever popular Apple iOS and BlackBerry. This update is free for anyone who purchased version 4.5 standalone or Eclipse plugin and the version that comes with the recently released Creative Suite 5.5. Having spent a lot of time with this release I really feel that iOS development in particular has now opened up to the masses and perhaps most importantly to Windows users, I have been very surprised and impressed with the performance compared to Objective-C applications.
Remember as always there are plenty of tutorials to aid you in Flex and Flash development on www.uibuzz.com, just look to the left on the page. The list will be growing with mobile examples using this new release as time permits (clients work first as always)
You can download the updates and read the release notes at the following links
Adobe Flex quicktip
You can call more than one function or method during an event by seperating them with a ‘;’.
For example you could make multiple calls in a creation complete event like so
creationComplete="methodA(); methodB(); functionC()"
Adobe has started shipping Creative Suite 5.5
Congratulations to the teams, I really feel this is a solid upgrade that in many ways you could argue should be a solid point release when you look at the work they have done.
You can see a previous post here for some of the highlights in this new release, I whole heartedly recommend it to anyone interested in Mobile, Adobe AIR or HTML5 development.
Go grab your copy and the trials from www.Adobe.com