How soon can you learn Adobe Flex 3? With this book's unique hands-on approach, you will be able to tinker with examples right away, and create your own Rich Internet Applications with Flex within the first few chapters. As you progress, you learn how to build a layout, add interactivity, work with data, and deploy your applications to either the Web or the desktop. Learning Flex 3 offers step-by-step instructions that are clear and concise, along with tips and tricks that author Alaric Cole has gathered after years of using Flex and teaching it to fellow developers at Yahoo! You'll understand how Flex works, how to use the MXML markup language and work with ActionScript, how to deploy RIAs to the desktop using Adobe AIR, and much more. Whether you're a beginner, or an experienced web developer coming to Flex from another platform, Learning Flex 3 is the ideal way to learn how to: 
<ul>
<li>Set up your environment with FlexBuilder and Eclipse</li>
<li>Create a new Flex project</li>
<li>Use the different design views in Flex</li>
<li>Write code with MXML</li>
<li>Lay out your Flex application</li>
<li>Embed images and graphics</li>
<li>Build a user interface</li>
<li>Add interactivity with ActionScript</li>
<li>Handle user input</li>
<li>Move, display, and collect data</li>
<li>Add custom components with MXML</li>
<li>Add sound effects, filters, and transitions</li>
<li>Style your applications with CSS, skins, and themes</li>
<li>Deploy applications to the Web, or to the desktop using Adobe AIR</li>
</ul>
Also included are brief explanations of objects, classes, components, properties, methods, types, and other Flex attributes. You will find that Learning Flex 3 is not only the most complete tutorial for Flex, it's also the quickest way to get going with the latest version of this powerful framework.

Learning Flex 3: Getting up to Speed with Rich Internet Applications (Adobe Developer Library)

Computers & Technology

Cole, Alaric

Web Development & Design

Adobe Developer Library

Learn Adobe Flex 4 in a fun and engaging way with this book's unique, hands-on approach. Using clear examples and step-by-step coaching from two experts, you'll create four applications that demonstrate fundamental Flex programming concepts.
Throughout the course of this book, you’ll learn how to enhance user interaction with ActionScript, and create and skin a user interface with Flex’s UI components (MXML) and Adobe's new FXG graphics format. You'll also be trained to manage dynamic data, connect to a database using server-side script, and deploy applications to both the Web and the desktop.
Learning Flex 4 offers tips and tricks the authors have collected from years of real-world experience, and straightforward explanations of object-oriented programming concepts to help you understand how Flex 4 works.
<ul>
<li>Work with Flash Builder 4 and the Eclipse IDE</li>
<li>Learn the basics of ActionScript, MXML, and FXG</li>
<li>Design a Flex application layout</li>
<li>Build an engaging user interface</li>
<li>Add interactivity with ActionScript</li>
<li>Handle user input with rich forms</li>
<li>Link Flex to a server with PHP and MySQL</li>
<li>Gather and display data</li>
<li>Style applications and add effects, filters, and transitions</li>
<li>Deploy applications to the Web, or to the desktop using Adobe AIR</li>
</ul>

Learning Flex 4: Getting Up to Speed with Rich Internet Application Design and Development (Adobe Developer Library)

Robison, Elijah

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Learning Flex 3: Getting up to Speed with Rich Internet Applications (Adobe Developer Library)

Learning Flex 4: Getting Up to Speed with Rich Internet Application Design and Development (Adobe Developer Library)