Flash Professional has this really nifty built-in mechanism for updating the AIR SDK straight from the application menu. Specifically via Help > Manage Adobe AIR SDK. Flash Builder, however… has nothing of the sort and requires a rather obscure workflow to achieve an update of the built in SDK. Since Adobe doesn’t seem interested in …
[okay… not really – the new compiler is just really picky] This is another rant – but like most of my rants… there is useful information to be had! This one came about as I needed to employ some UI assets created in Flash Professional and published as a SWC for use in an AS3 …
Demo of mobile Flex 4.5 using Flash Builder 4.5.
I really enjoy little community based competitions contributions like this one at http://www.riagora.com/ put on by Adobe Flash Platform Evangelist, Michaël Chaize. Time to promote the amazing new features of Flash Builder 4 to experiment the best coding experience for your Flex 3 and Flex 4 projects. To highlight these new features, I could list …
The obvious reason being that Flash is the overarching platform with many tools, IDEs, runtimes, et cetera and Flex is a framework used to produce Flash content. Flex Builder has always produced Flash (NOT FLEX) and I’ve encountered many people who just never could grasp this fact. This will help clarify things for so many …