SLIDER - Flex Mobile Framework

Finally I will be able to build Flex applications for my iPhone.

Adobe is coming up with this promising framework called SLIDER. It is based on Flex 4 framework and will be optimized for mobile devices, will have components specially designed for use on these devices and guess what? Will export native applications for iPhone.

It is supposed to be released as a plugin for Flash Builder 4.

I'm looking forward to put my hands on it.

If you can't wait until Adobe releases SLIDER, try out this similar product from openplug at http://www.openplug.com

More information: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/mobile
FAQ about it: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/mobile/faq.html

Flash on iPhone?

Flash CS5 is comming with a promissing feature: You will be able to create native iPhone Applications from your flash project.
I hope we will be able to export Flex applications to native IPhone applications as well.

See it on Adobe's labs http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/

PetAlert component included in the Commons Library

PetAlert is an extension of Flex Alert Class that shows a custom Pet along with the message. The message can be fully customized with CSS and together with BallonSkin you can create nice messages in your project.



See exemple bellow, and visualize the source for more information



Feel free to use these pets if you liked, I made them myself and released a svg version with this very example.

Laszlo like focus indicator

A new component was included in my "Commons Library". It is a component that acts like Laszlo's focus indicator.

Just put it inside the Application component and every time you change focus pressing TAB (or other specified) an animation will show you the focus transition between the previus focused component and the new focused component.

Just like this:

<ui:FocusIndicator/>

You can see an example here or on the same "Commons Library" example here

Commons Components Library

This is a Library with some useful components.
I'm constantly adding components that I already have as I need them, so come to take a look once in while.

Example:

downloads

Flex Diagrammer Library

With this Flex library you can build your own diagrammers and easily extend nodes and links adding custom functionality.

Custom node example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<BaseNode xmlns="com.anotherflexdev.diagrammer.*" xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" textMargin="20">

<mx:Image x="0" y="0" source="@Embed(source='assets/images/node-process.png')"/>

<mx:Button label="Workflow"/>

</BaseNode>

See live examples: UML Example, Custom Workflow Example

Downloads

Project source code at google code. If you want to contribute please mail me at gilmar.purin@gmail.com