Build Applications Faster with SWCs

Summary:
Use the Flash IDE to effectively manage assets for your Flex projects. We’ll start out simple with image management than dive into more advanced implementations with vector art and interactive components. All assets will be build in Flash and pulled into Flex Builder. Both the pro’s and con’s will be covered. Great for both designers and developers.

Build Applications Faster with SWCs
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Snowboard Demo Code:
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Six Months on AIR

Summary:
Skimmer, which was downloaded over 10,000 times during its first week, is a free desktop application that consolidates social networking activities from Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, and Blogger. Using our experiences working on Skimmer we’ll let you in on the secrets that will make make developing your own Adobe AIR desktop application much easier. In this session, you’ll learn how to handle memory management, decide on a framework, reuse view components from the web, integrate your app with third party APIs, and more. We’ll cover both successes and lessons learned during the six months of development on Skimmer.

Six Months on AIR: A Look at Skimmer

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New Age Applications: Skimmer

New Age Applications: Skimmer
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Skimmer

Flex Appeal

Summary:
Do your Flex applications feel cold and dull? Comrades, improve the look and feel of any Adobe Flex application using a combination of graphical and programmatic skinning. We will walk through the steps required to take your applications to the next level using CSS, 9-Slice Scaling, and custom classes. Learn how to import your skins directly into Flex from Photoshop using the skinning extensions provided by Adobe. Finally, we will break into some programmatic skinning, custom transitions and third party frameworks to achieve pixel perfect results.

Presentation:

Flex Appeal
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Code Samples
CSS / Skinning Extensions:
http://www.blackcj.com/SkinningExtensions/
http://www.blackcj.com/SkinningExtensions/srcview/index.html

Degrafa Examples:
http://degrafa.org/source/iPhoneSkin/iPhoneSkin.html
http://degrafa.org/source/AdvancedSkins/Skins.html

Extending Styles in Flex:
http://www.blackcj.com/CascadingStylesForFlex/

Overriding Display:
http://www.blackcj.com/OverridingDisplay/

Preloader Examples:
http://blog.preinvent.com/node/6
http://www.flexer.info/2008/02/07/very-first-flex-preloader-customization/

Resources:
http://blog.flexcommunity.net/?p=61