With the 360|Flex conference at the beginning of last week came several announcements for new and exciting stuff that is coming in Flex 4 (and CS4).
The Next Dimension of Rich Experiences (360|Flex Keynote) Mark Anders
As this video alone is over an hour long, I thought I’d summarize some of what I think are the most interesting advancements below.
With the Olympics in full swing, many of us have been inspired to dust off our bicycles, running shoes, or leotards (!) but for the designers/developers among us it also inspires something else… The need to create cool and/or useful things around it based, of course, on the latest technology - in this case AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) applications.
AIR allows you to build desktop-based applications from web-based technologies like Flash, Flex, HTML and JavaScript. There are a few AIR apps that have been around for some time now and are becoming increasingly well known - such as eBay Desktop and the Google Analytics reporting tool (by Nicholas Lierman).