Here’s a nice and important tutorial you should take a look. The Tech Labs explains how to create a photo gallery loading images from a Flickr feed and displaying them via Flex in a totally own skinned application. Some of the most common issues asked by Flex beginner’s are exposed here at this tut, for example the components skinning and more.

Give it a read and good luck!

Anirudh Sasikumar explains the capbilities of Flex DataMap component and the process of building a simple and powerful application.

The final application will allow you to:

- Show the same data on a DataGrid and on the map.
- Reflect the changes made in the DataGrid on the map.
- Lets you box-select multiple items on the map.
- Lets you make free form drawings on the map, which can be saved and restored.

Flex Developer Center

Shane Johnson shared a nice tutorial at FlashTuts+ on how to create a multi-propose contact form using Flex. You will work with many features and components available under Flex framework, also a CSS style file will be created and implemented on you form to stylize the application.

Flash Camo (for short) is a graphics framework that allows AS 3 applications to be easily skinned from pngs, jpgs, or gifs.

Jesse Freeman shared a tutorial at flashTuts+ explaining how to apply this technology on your own project. For this you will be using Flex Builder.

By integrating PHP & Flex Larry Ullman explains how to create a live application so that you can manage your employees in a easy way. Of course this could be applied to many other utilities, the point is to understand the tutorial and create your own application modifying as you wish.

This application will list current employees and you may create new one’s using the application. The process is making Flex to call a PHP function to write data in a XML file.

Integrating Flex & PHP

Learn the process to create a bubble chart in Flex using FusionCharts. Pallav Nadhani the author of the tutorial explains all the steps in a clear way, it will be easy for you to complete the application.

Good Luck!

netTuts+ Bubble Chart in Flex Tutorial

Giant Flying Saucer presents us a cool and complete tutorial on how to create a chat application with Flex. For that you will use Union Platform created by Colin Moock and Derek Clayton based on the well know “Unity”.

The tutorial is very well explained, with a step-by-step description, that will make it easy for you. There’s no need to be a hard programmer to this, all the code is given, however you should be familiar with Flex Builder to simplify things.

Good Luck!

Flex chat application tutorial

Adobe AIR Developer Center for Flex is offering a course on building Flex applications on Adobe AIR.

The course is divided into the following modules and labs:

* Introducing the course
* Introducing Adobe AIR
* Getting started with AIR
* Creating native windows
* Using the file system
* Connecting applications
* Using the clipboard
* Persisting application data
* Understanding AIR security
* Customizing application deployment

AIR 1.5 – Building desktop applications with Flex 3 online course

Alex Cougarman explains the process on how to upload a file via Flex and Java. In the process, it demonstrates Flex’s ECMAScript for XML (E4X) language extension, custom components, classes, and events, as well as a Java-like properties file.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Creating the Flex project
3. Creating the Java servlet
4. Adding data to the Flex app
5. Creating the Flex upload component
6. Creating a custom Flex event
7. Troubleshooting

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Webmonkey is sharing a tutorial on how to create a Flex application that will load data from a mySql database. Third party tools will be used to create a local database, have a look also to those tools has they can become handy to another kind of projects.

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netTuts+ collected a must see list of what they call the “10 Challenging but Awesome Flash Techniques”. I believe this title says it all, there’s no reason to present folks or work of netTuts+ group/staff, this is good material to play with. Enjoy!

The list of tips is composed by:

1. Send and Receive Phone Calls, SMS and Voicemail with Flash
2. Pyramid and Funnel Charts with Adobe Flex
3. Creating Liquid GUIs with Flash and ActionScript 3.0
4. Realistic Coffee and Smoke Effect
5. Return Database Records to Flash
6. Use Lightbox Inside of Flash Applications
7. Create a Walk Cycle: The Right Way
8. Advanced Image Gallery
9. Export JPG with Flash PHP
10. Handle Cue Points for Audio Files in ActionScript

Take a look

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All the code you need to achieve this task: http://padub.com/2009/01/21/flex-file-upload-with-an-aspnet-backend/

“Flex quick start guide for PHP developers” was a very popular document made available by Adobe under Flex Developer Center. Now the article was updated but to work with Flex 3.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Running the Flex/PHP code examples
3. Creating the user interface
4. Submitting a form using the GET method to PHP
5. Submitting a form using the POST method to PHP
6. Submitting a form to Google using the GET method
7. Populating a list with XML from the server
8. Navigating to another URL or targeting a frame
9. Changing states in Flex
10. Downloading a file
11. Uploading a file to PHP
12. Login example application
13. Populating a DataGrid with XML from PHP
14. Taking your projects to the next level

Flex Developer Center

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Vijay from RiaOn.com will give you some tips on how to animate your applications with Flex. He created a simple 3 tab application where the content of each tab will appear with different animations. After this tutorial you will for sure be able to create more complex animations.

Learn how to display rich text inside of the Flash Player 10 and Adobe AIR 1.5 runtimes, using the Text Layout Framework library for Adobe Flash Player 10 and Adobe AIR 1.5 with this Flex Developer Center article by Mihai Corlan.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Introducing the Text Layout Framework library
3. Understanding the components and capabilities
4. Example: Using the Text Layout Framework in Flex and AIR