Tour de Flex

Tour de Flex is a desktop application for exploring Flex capabilities and resources, including the core Flex components, Adobe AIR, data integration, and a variety of third-party components, effects, skins, and more.

Tour de Flex includes over 450 running samples, each with source code, links to documentation, and other details. Topics include the Flex components, data access, AIR desktop capabilities, cloud APIs, data visualization, mapping, and a growing collection of custom components, effects, and skins.

Tour de Flex Live Planetary Dashboard

Tour de Flex is a very active application because people from all over the world are learning Flex! Click below to see a live heatmap of Tour de Flex activity.

For information on how this dashboard was built using Flex and Adobe LiveCycle Data Services, see Greg Wilson's blog post. The UI was built by the IBM ILOG Elixir Team

         

Flex News

Adobe AIR Launchpad launches!

Jump start your Flex development for AIR

Flash Builder 4 Shortcuts and Tips

Flash Builder Shortcuts and Tips by Holly Schinsky

Text Layout Framework

Flex 4 and the Text Layout Framework by Holly Schinsky

Flex Framework RSLs

Framework RSLs in Flex Builder vs Flash Builder, Performance and Important Info by Holly Schinsky

Spark Architecture Overview

A Brief Overview of the Spark Architecture and Component Set in Flex 4 by Deepa Subramaniam

Flash Builder 4 Deep Dive

A Deep Dive into Flash Builder 4 by Jon Rose

Flex 4 Docs now in six Languages

Flex 4 documentation is now available in French, German, Russian, Chinese and Japanese!

New Flex 4 / Spring Integration Article

Christophe Coenraets details the latest version of the Spring / BlazeDS Integration Project

What's new in Flash Builder

Andrew Shorten introduces the new features in Flash Builder 4.0

What's new in Flex 4

Deepa Subramaniam introduces what's new in the Flex 4 language

Differences between Flex 3 & Flex 4

Joan Lafferty describes the differences between Flex 3 and Flex 4



Tour de Flex is a desktop application for exploring Flex capabilities and resources, including the core Flex components, Adobe AIR, data integration, and a variety of third-party components, effects, skins, and more.

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