Introduction to Developing with Flex

There are many presentations made available online from Adobe Developer Week. The first presentation I viewed was an Introduction to Developing with Flex by James Ward, which started with product overview slides from Adobe which describe the evolution of Rich Internet Applications over time.

The presentation then got into describing the Flex product offering and an overview of the technical architecture. And, there were several example applications displayed to illustrate the power of Flex.

One sample illustrated the basics of the code and the programming model. This sample application showed how quickly you can create a Flex application which reads data from an XML file via an HTTPService and then presents the data, including images (of cell phones) in a TileList using transitions between application states. The code is available in this screen shot.