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Note!

There is a lot of sample code available through other pages on this website. For example many of the components and RIAs we've linked to have source code.

AMF

AMF Specification

Pete Farland :: Using AMF with flash.net.URLLoader

Ted Patrick :: The ABC's Of AMF

Animation

Go ActionScript Animation Platform

KitchenSync

APIs, Frameworks, Toolkits

AlivePDF :: Client side AS3 PDF generation :: More info

Amazon S3 :: as3awss3lib

Adobe :: Alchemy :: "allows users to compile C and C++ code into ActionScript libraries"

Adobe :: Cocomo :: A platform/service that allows Flex developers to easily add real-time social capabilities, including:

VoIP Audio
Webcam Video
Chat
Multi-User Whiteboards
Real-Time File Sharing
User Management
Roles and Permissions
Robust Data Messaging

Adobe :: Text Layout Framework

Digg :: Flash toolkit

eBay API

eBay Flex Toolkit

FedEx :: as3fedexlib

Flex 3 Language Reference

Flickr :: crossdomain.xml

Google Analytics ActionScript API

Google Analytics PHP API

Google Earth API

Google Feed API

Google Gears :: Also, see the Google Gears section below

Google Language API

Google Maps API :: And a Flex Component :: Also, see the Mapping section below

Google Search API

Mappr

MapQuest

Moccasin :: A Flex framework for graphical editing apps :: More info

ModestMaps :: Create tile-based maps, from sources such as OpenStreetMap, NASA Blue Marble, Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, and others

ODEO

ObjectHandles :: More info

Eric Feminella :: Local Persistence API

Architecture

See our Architecture page.

Audio

Articles

Andrew Trice :: More Fun With Sound Visualizations

Blogs

André Michelle

Automated Code Generation

Derick Grigg :: Value Object Creator :: "Allows you to easily convert database entities to AS3 classes"

Eric Feminella :: Cairngen

Farata Systems :: daoFlex :: Automated generation of Java, ActionScript, MXML, & Config file code

Joe Berkovitz :: asbeans: A Sample Hamachi Module for ActionScript Codegen

Tom Cornilliac :: Flex Builder Tip: Saving the generated AS3 code :: Use the compiler's -keep option, examine your MXML's AS3 code conversion!

Tyler Beck :: Cairngorm Creator

Victor Rubba :: amfphp/flex/cairngorm Codegen

WebORB for Java :: Flex and Flash remoting code generator supports Cairngorm, PureMVC

XDoclet2 :: Automatically generate ActionScript classes (and much more) based on Java classes

Adobe :: Alchemy :: Use C & C++ code in Flash/Flex apps

Adobe :: as3awss3lib :: An AS3 library for accessing Amazon's S3 service

Adobe :: as3corelib :: Image encoders; string, number & date APIs; MD5 hashing; JSON serialization

Adobe :: as3exchangelib :: A library for talking to Exchange servers

Adobe :: as3fedexlib

Adobe :: as3nativealertlib :: Creates native alerts for AIR applications

Adobe :: as3notificationlib :: "add cross-platform notifications to your AIR application ... the dock icon bouncing and the taskbar icon flashing ... allows you to easily create alert pop-ups"

Adobe :: as3preferenceslib :: An AIR library for storing preferences ... deals with persistence & encryption

Adobe :: as3syndicationlib :: "parse Atom and all versions of RSS easily ... hides the differences between the formats"

Adobe :: Flex Cookbook beta

Adobe :: Flex Developer Center

Adobe :: Flex Scheduling Framework

Adobe :: Quick Starts :: Great stuff

Adobe :: RSS and Atom Libraries

Adobe Labs :: Flex

Christophe Herreman :: Prana Framework

Danny Patterson :: AS3 Lightweight Remoting Framework :: "a simple yet robust framework for handling remoting calls"

Faranta Systems :: daoFlex :: Automated generation of Java data access code

ifbin.com

JAM :: Just ActionScript & MXML

SourceForge::FlexApps

C & C++

Adobe :: Alchemy :: "allows users to compile C and C++ code into ActionScript libraries"

Compiler (the Flex compiler)

Adobe :: Flex 3 Compiler Design

Brian Deitte :: Flex Compiler Resources

Brian Deitte :: Speeding Up Builds with the Flex Compiler Shell

Components

Bruce Eckel :: Creating Flex Components

Ely Greenfield :: Some thoughts on Flex vs. HTML (or…”how I made my Flex List Images stop flickering.”)

Stephen Gilson :: Creating Resizable and Draggable Flex Components

Context Menus

Kevin Hoyt :: Context Menus Revisited

Database Connectivity

Lukasz Blachowicz :: Asql :: Actionscript MySQL Driver

Matt MacLean :: asSQL :: Actionscript MySQL Driver

WebORB for Java - WebORB Data Management for Flex (WDMF)

Debugging

Articles

Alex Harui :: Debugging Tips

Alex Uhlmann :: Using Binding Securely :: Touches (very briefly) on the use of BindingManager.debugBinding()

Andrew Trice :: ObjectUtil - Stop debugging the old way

Daniel Harfleet :: Debugging Flex and Java at the same time

Daniel Rinehart :: Debugging Bindings with BindingManager

Darron Schall :: How I Debug with Flex Modules

James Ward :: Debug Flex & Java Together in Flex Builder 2

Kyle Quevillon :: Getting the callstack trace to find out who called a function

Peter deHaan :: Debugging Flex Applications With mm.cfg And flashlog.txt

Renaun Erickson :: Flex Builder - What do the Icons in Variables View mean?

RIA AppPuncher Debugger :: Debugging Flex to Java applications

Robert Taylor :: Debugging Flex 2.0.1 Modules

Roman Dolgov :: Logging and Debugging deployed Flex applications

Sönke Rohde :: Stop tracing and start logging

Tom Cornilliac :: Flex Builder Tip: Saving the generated AS3 code :: Use the compiler's -keep option, examine your MXML's AS3 code conversion!

Presentations

Mike Morearty :: Debugging Flex Applications :: PDF :: HTML

Tools

Client-Side Traffic Sniffers :: Charles :: Paros :: ServiceCapture

FlashTracer :: Firefox extension for displaying trace() output

Mike Nimer's Debug Component

Deep Linking

David Tucker :: Advanced Flex Deep Linking with URLKit

Drawing Etc.

Andrew Trice :: Flex 2 BitmapData Tricks and Techniques

Andrew Trice :: Realtime Thumbnails of Flex UIComponents :: More info

Ted Patrick :: Developing in Trees :: Adding sprites to the DisplayList :: Part 1 :: Part 2

E4X

Bruce Phillips :: Filtering an XML Object In ActionScript to Create Related Combo Boxes in Flex

Michael Labriolla :: Displaying XML-based DataGrids using dynamic E4X expressions

Mike Morearty :: Common E4X pitfalls

Embedding

Eric Feminella :: Embedding assets with application/octet-stream :: How to embed file types that aren't natively supported by Flex, e.g. XML

Events

Oliver Merk :: Flex Custom Events - Part 1

Tink :: Custom Events in AS 3.0 (don’t forget to override the clone method)

Google Gears

Google Gears :: "Three modules that address the core challenges in making web applications work offline"

LocalServer :: Cache and serve application resources (HTML, JavaScript, images, etc.) locally
Database :: Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database
WorkerPool :: Make your web applications more responsive by performing resource-intensive operations asynchronously

Christophe Coenraets :: Flex-based SQLAdmin for Google Gears