Useful Flash Platform Resources

Open Source Flex Development Tools from Adobe:

• Flex 4 SDK
• Flex SDK
• FlexUnit is available here.  

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

• 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.

• Good primer on Adobe Flex Component Lifecycle - 
  http://www.slideshare.net/rjowen/adobe-flex-component-lifecycle-presentation

• 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/

• 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:

• http://www.loscavio.com/downloads/blog/flex3_css_list/flex3_css_list.htm