Upcoming Flex Events

If you’re looking for a great conference to attend, 360|Flex is right around the corner and you should definitely make a point of checking it out. Most developers consider this to be *the* conference to attend and glancing at the schedule, you can see why. My fellow teammate, Christophe Coenraets is going to be doing the keynote and has some fun in store that you will not want to miss. There will...

Adobe’s Commitments to Flex – Official Whitepaper

There have been a lot of questions about the viability and future of Flex recently, and Adobe has published an official whitepaper today detailing their support for Flex going forward. The paper also contains details regarding Flash runtime support, Flash Builder support and other Apache contributions including the Falcon compiler. I believe the paper is a must read and can be found...

Flex Mobile Development – Dynamic Splash Screens

Flash Builder 4.6 includes a new feature to allow you to add a dynamic splash screen component to your mobile application. This feature will allow you to load a different image based on a few different properties you can set to ensure you get the best image for the right device. The properties you can use to determine which image is displayed for the splash screen are: dpi minResolution aspectRatio You can...

Apache Flex Update!

It’s been quite the roller coaster in the Flex world these past few months to say the least! Now seemed like a good time for an update on the latest status of things. Adobe Flex to Apache Flex Adobe Flex is now Apache Flex (in case you’ve been under a rock lately or perhaps just discovered Flex ). It’s been contributed to the Apache community and is in incubator status. Incubator...