Useful Flash Platform Resources
Here are some links to Adobe Flash and Flex resources that I find useful. There is lot of content available on the net. However, I had to spend good time find what I need to get started. Hope, will help someone...
Useful websites:
Free Flash / Flex Tools:
- Flash Develop: Free Flex IDE - Flash Develop has great community support. Plugins are now available to view and edit mxml files in both source view as well as design view. Check out - http://www.steamed-design.com/2009/07/free-flex-ide.html
- Flash Develop Plugins List - http://www.flashdevelop.org/wikidocs/index.php?title=3rd_Party_Plugins
- FlexPMD is an open source tool from Adobe helps to improve code quality by auditing any AS3/Flex source directory and detecting common bad practices. You can get the template to use FlexPMD with FlashDevelop with the instructions on how to use it.
- FlexMonkey Flex User Interface Testing Tool
http://code.google.com/p/flexmonkey/ - Online Text Layout Editor
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/textlayout/demos/ - Free Online Flex DesignView
http://designview.sourceforge.net/ - Aptana, free Eclipse Plug-in to create AIR Application installer
http://www.aptana.com/docs/index.php/Plugging_Aptana_into_an_existing_Eclipse_configuration
Free Flex / Flash Training:
Flex Frameworks:
Certifications:
Open Source Flex Development Tools from Adobe:
Flex 3:
- Getting started with Flex 3
- Flex Builder 3 video training to learn Flex in a week
- Adobe Flex 3 Component Explorer. It provides both code view and published view. One can start with copying pasting code to learn.
- Flex 3 Style Explorer
- To improve the performance of your Flex application check Performance Profiling a Flex Application.
- Tips to optimize Flex SWF's
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To reduce the SWF file size try a Flex Actionscript Project instead of Flex MXML Project. In my case, it reduced the file size from 100K to 5 K.
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Good primer on Adobe Flex Component Lifecycle -
http://www.slideshare.net/rjowen/adobe-flex-component-lifecycle-presentation
ActionScript 3 Help and Manuals:
- Programming Adobe ActionScript 3.0 for Adobe Flash
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ActionScript/3.0_ProgrammingAS3 - Flash CS4 Professional ActionScript 3.0 Language Reference
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AS3LCR/Flash_10.0/ - StarUML is very good free tool to create Action Script 3 class diagrams.
http://staruml.sourceforge.net/en/download.php
Use this plugin to to generate Action Script 3 source code from your UML diagrams.
http://www.senocular.com/flash/tutorials/starumltoas3/
Action Script 3 Code libraries:
- AS3 Code Libraries
http://www.adrianparr.com/?p=83 - Open Source Flash Projects
http://osflash.org/projects - CASA Lib is a flexible ActionScript library...
http://casalib.org/ - S3 Data Structures For Game Developers (AS3DS)
http://lab.polygonal.de/ds/ - http://code.google.com/p/
as3corelib/ - http://code.google.com/p/
assql/wiki/Examples - Action Script 3 MySQL Driver
http://code.google.com/p/assql/ - Action Script 3 Libraries
http://blog.everythingflex.com/as3-libraries/ - Open Source 3D Engine for Flash
http://code.google.com/p/papervision3d/ - Animation library for Action script 3
http://code.google.com/p/asinmotion/ - List of Action Script 3 API's
http://seantheflexguy.com/blog/2007/08/13/list-of-22- actionscript-30-apis/
Flash / Flex Tips, Tricks, Tutorials:
- Recommended coding conventions
http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Coding+Conventions - Flash Tutorial and Demonstration Videos
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flash/videos/ - Flash Tutorials
http://www.gotoandlearn.com/
PHP and Flex: -
- http://www.aboutflex.net/flex/flex-create-application-from-database-with-php/
- Flex for PHP Developers
- Flex/AIR and PHP Applications
Quick Reference:
Inspiring Flash works:
Flex 2:
