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()"I have started to add some components to my GitHub account that you are welcome to use, all I ask is that if you make any changes or find them useful to please give back to the community and to let me know.
You can find the first of these components right now, it is an on screen virtual keyboard with both an uppercase and lowercase character set.
The component dispatches an event back to the application with the label of the key you pressed that you can then use as needed. There is an example of how to use it in the readme file. This is a very simple component but you would be surprised how often I have needed.
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