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Adobe Flex: useful stuff for mobile development, part 1

Posted by Unknown Sabtu, 10 Desember 2011 0 komentar

About one week ago Adobe released Flex SDK 4.6 and Flash Builder 4.6. The main goal of these releases was mobile and especially tablet development. And in this post I want to share some stuff that will inspire and motivate you for mobile development with Adobe technologies.

As the official Adobe blog says, the Flex 4.6 release was built on the mobile capabilities introduced in Flex 4.5, enabling you to:

create tablet apps with multiple views and adaptive layouts
use new tablet focused UI components, including Callout, SpinnerList, and ToggleButton controls
add text inputs with OS-specific interfaces and interactions to your apps
package AIR runtime with your application
have better integration and usage of ActionScript Native Extensions

In my opinion one of the coolest features is Adobe AIR Captive runtime. Why? Because the ability to package AIR runtime with your application into one file (APK for Android, IPA for iOS, etc.) guarantees the ability to run Flash/Flex/AIR applications and games in proper runtime.

ActionScript Native Extentions is also a great feature. It's a bridge between your Flex mobile app and a native library that can extend the capabilities of the Flex SDK. You can find a list of native extensions such as Notifications, Vibration, Gyroscope API, etc. here:

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/native-extensions-for-air.html

Also Flex 4.6 contains several new Spark components which will be especially useful in the mobile development for tablet devices:

SplitViewNavigator

One of the most common uses of SplitViewNavigator is the creation of User Interface screen based on a design pattern known as Master/Detail.

Callout and CalloutButton

The component extends SkinnablePopUpContainer, inherits its all functionality and provides a relatively positioned arrow. This fully skinnable component can contain any kind of content, from a group of components to entire Views.

SpinnerList and DateSpinner, that components look & feel are very similar to native iOS spinner components.

ToggleButton

Soft Keyboard Parameters

Soft Keyboard Parameters allows you to modify the look of your mobile/tablet soft keyboard to display the best layout for specific text input format: number, email, punctuation, url, contact or default. For example, if you have text input for ZIP code, you can write something like that:

<s:TextInput softKeyboardType="number"/>

In the second part of that article I will show you several examples of nice mobile and cross-platform applications built with Adobe Flex. Many of them are open sourced, so you will be able to investigate their code to improve your skills. See u! ;-)

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