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March 19, 2015
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Flex/Flash Builder development vs others?

  • March 19, 2015
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Does Flex/Flash Builder development application build have an advantage over others? The little bit I have picked up seems to show that it can create a Android IOS and Blackberry app all in one project (of course build specific have to be dealt with). I have not seen any up to date ways of learning Flex via Flash Builder 4.7. Everything I am finding seems to be 3 to 4 years old. I am still working with the material but can tell it is somewhat outdated. Understanding what it does it seems like a good platform to learn but I wonder why the lack of attention to the learning base?

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Correct answer natural_criticB837

Thank you, your replies are very helpful. Are the capabilities (in our case microphone recording) that you put Flash based application guaranteed to be accessible by the AIR/iOS/Android application? If so than that is what I am looking for. Thanks


Yes, everything you do in Flash can be done in Air, most of the time with 100% the same code. I would recommend you to download FlashDevelop (its free, Windows only) and play around with some microphone examples. After that, create a new Project for mobile with the FlashDevelop templates and reuse your code for mobile and compare results.

It's really easy once you understood the basic structure of projects and Air vs Flash. I think the setup is a bit hard to understand if you are new to this, but after a while it will be piece of cake.

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Legend
March 19, 2015

Flex is stable, but did not receive any feature updates in the recent past so there is no need for new documentation. Also the buzz is mobile right now and Flex performs pretty slow on mobile devices, therefore it is not as much in the focus anymore.

According to Chris Campbell, Flash Builder is unlikely to see new features added in the near future as other development tools are more popular and Adobe has no interest to develop products that are only used by a fraction of the community. Popular alternatives are FlashDevelop and Idea IntelliJ.

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Inspiring
March 21, 2015

Thanks I am lost right now because we need to build an application that can take in a users microphone input, than store it to a database like PHP. I was thinking that Flash was a good idea for this (knowing it would leave out the iPad option). Some one told me we cant leave out the iPad/iPhone option because a lot of user would try/prefer to access it this way. Some suggested that if the application was built in Flex via Flash Builder that it could do both? I can't find enough information on this being the case. I will take a look at FlashDevelope and Idea IntelliJ.

Do you know if Flash and this Actionscript AIR type development can make an application cross platform/device? Thanks so much for the help.

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Legend
March 21, 2015

Hi, I never worked with audio from a microphone, but Flash and Air definitely are capable of that. To answer your question: Flash will work in the browser on desktop computers but not on mobile devices like iPhone or Android. You can use Air to package an application for iOS and Android that can then be uploaded to the Appstore and Google Play so that your users can download the app on mobile devices instead of using the browser. Generally, the code that you create works across platforms, so you can program once and deploy twice using Flash and Air.

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