Adobe Flex Workshop (Registration Closed)

Adobe Flex is a software development kit released by Adobe Systems for the development and deployment of cross-platform rich Internet applications based on the Adobe Flash platform. Flex applications can be written using Adobe Flex Builder or by using the freely available Flex compiler from Adobe. Traditional application programmers found it challenging to adapt to the animation metaphor upon which the Flash Platform was originally designed.

Flex seeks to minimize this problem by providing a workflow and programming model that is familiar to these developers. MXML, anXML-based markup language, offers a way to build and lay out graphic user interfaces. Interactivity is achieved through the use of ActionScript, the core language of Flash Player that is based on the ECMAScript standard, Flex and Flash Player provide many useful ways to send and load data to and from server-side components without requiring the client to reload the view. Though this functionality offered advantages over HTML and JavaScript development in the past, the increased support for XMLHttpRequest in major browsers has made asynchronous data loading a common practice in HTML-based development as well.

It will be a 6 hour workshop and will include:

Flex Basics

•  Introducing Flex 3: Developing Rich Client Applications
• Introduction to Adobe Flex 3.0
• Creating Views using Flex
• Handling Events
• Using View – states for Application Design
• Creating Application Navigation

Flex with ActionScript

•  Using Action script Data Model
• Reading Data using HTTP Service
• Displaying Data using Datagrid

AIR

•  Introducing Adobe Integrated Runtime
• Getting Started with AIR in Flex Builder 3.0
• Persisting Application Data
• Building RSS Reader
  
  • Reading RSS, using HTTP Service / URLLoader Class
  • Storing Data Locally, using SQLLite.
  • Renderering UI, using Item Renderer and Item Editor.
• Packaging and deploying AIR Application.

The cost of workshop will be Rs. 300 per person.