How to handle a lot of menuitems.

Hi,

I am in need of a solution that can handle a lot of menuitems on a mobile device.

My vision:

At the bottom of the screen there is always a Menu button. When clicked a list pops up above it and the background fades.

Looking for something like the windows start menu but when clicked the active screen fades. (Like an alert popup does in a regular air desktop application)

What is the best way to achieve this?

one of my thoughts;

- click on first tabbar menuitem with the name Menu

- take a snapshot of the current screen

- launch a new view

- put the snapshot as a faded background in the view.

- above the first item in the tabbar (menu) draw a list with other menu item buttons that lead to other views when clicked.

I'm building my first mobile app.. so exiting.. but a bit of a pain to get the right help.. Is there a page with help on only the things you can use on a mobile project? And skinning... what about that?? Flex 3 was so easy to layout the look and feel of your application..

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Off topic Note for someone from adobe;

Is there a style explorer that outputs a skin? For example style a button the way you like with sliders, color pickers and stuff.. and it outputs a skin for it to copy into your project.  Would be verry nice to have.