Flex Introduction

Flex is an open source framework developed by Adobe for creating rich internet applications.

Flex Introduction

Flex Introduction

     

Flex is an open source framework developed by Adobe for creating rich internet applications. Flex based applications provide real time rich experience to the user which is not possible in traditional html based applications. Currently, Flex is most popular choice because of its cross browser and cross platform features. It runs consistently among all major browsers having flash player installed in it. Developers feels very easy to develop the flex application using Adobe flex builder application development tool. Developers can concentrate and spend more time on business logic and work flow rather than consuming time on developing User Interfaces.

Benefits of flex:

1. Its free and open source framework

2. Used to develop cross platform rich internet applications based on flash platform.

3. Flex applications provide real time rich user-experience.

4. Much more faster than traditional html based applications.

5. Loads only the required content from the server hence reduces the load on servers a lot.

6. Flex puts very less overhead to the database, and network.

7. Developing user interfaces are now easy using Adobe Flex Builder.

8. Unlike AJAX, flex applications looks and reacts the same way on each browser and plateform.

Tutorials

  1. Flex Container
  2. Flex Introduction
  3. What are Flex Containers
  4. Using Flex Containers
  5. Application container
  6. Canvas Layout Container
  7. Box Layout Container
  8. VBox Layout Container
  9. HBox Layout Container
  10. Form Layout Container
  11. Grid layout container
  12. Creating custom application download progress bar
  13. Panel layout container
  14. Tile layout container
  15. TitleWindow layout container
  16. ControlBar layout container
  17. DividedBox layout container
  18. HDividedBox layout container
  19. VDividedBox layout container
  20. Flex Container