On AIR with Flex

Here is a Flex Tutorial I’m writing for a couple of my friends. While the Videos on ‘Learn Flex in a week’ and “Test drive Flex in 1 hour” serve as good tutorials, here is an application I have attempted to build, which serves as an example for a developer trying out flex for the first time.

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The application demonstrates essential implementations like connecting to a WebService, SQLite Database and UI practices, a developer needs to be aware of prior to building a Flex application. This is brought about with 4 components, demonstrating the implementations below,

1) Displaying Hello World.
2) Displaying Hello World with a better UI (PopUp) from a XML file.
3) Displaying Hello World from a Webservice (REST).
4) Displaying Hello World from a Webservice that pushes data into a SQLite Database.

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