Adobe Flex in a Week

Learn Flex in a week by going through this video training course. To maximize your learning, we recommend that you view the videos and complete the exercises in the order in which they are listed.

Day 1: Flex basics
Day 1 project files (ZIP; 3.8 MB)
Comparing Flash, Flex, Flash Player and Adobe AIR (5:30)
Introducing Flex Builder (7:22)
Creating a Flex Builder workspace and project (7:04)
Using pre-built Flex controls (4:34)
Understanding MXML (4:07)
Exercise 1: Creating a project and laying out controls
Binding data between controls (5:48)
Handling user events (6:22)
Introducing the event object (10:40)
Adding EventListeners with ActionScript (5:21)
Exercise 2: Binding data and handling a user event
Retrieving data via HTTPService (8:26)
Exercise 3: Populating a control from an HTTPService request

Day 2: Component development
Day 2 project files (ZIP; 975 KB)
Displaying data in the DataGrid (6:35)
Working with containers (12:12)
Exercise 4: Working with containers
Creating custom MXML components (8:42)
Exercise 5: Creating custom MXML components
Implementing value object classes (13:46)
Creating custom events (5:59)
Creating custom event classes (23:06)
Exercise 6: Creating custom events and dispatching data
Customizing item renderers (6:42)
Exercise 7: Creating an item renderer
Exploring Flex Builder tips (5:18)

Day 3: Putting it all together
Day 3 project files (ZIP; 3.1 MB)
Validating data (7:15)
Exercise 8: Validating form data
Requesting and sending data with RemoteObject (20:52) Read me
Exercise 9: Using RemoteObject to send data to the server
Exercise 9 (ColdFusion): Using RemoteObject to send data to the server
Formatting data (6:09)
Dragging data between List components (5:20)
Exercise 10: Implementing drag and drop between components
Filtering XML with E4X (12:04)
Exercise 11: Using XML with E4X
Deploying Flex and AIR applications (11:57) Read me
Exercise 12: Deploying a Flex application
Exercise 13: Creating and deploying an AIR application

Day 4: Adding visual appeal
Day 4 project files (ZIP; 5.3 MB)
Implementing navigator containers (17:15)
Embedding images (11:58)
Embedding fonts (28:59)
Exercise 14: Working with navigation containers, embedding fonts and images
Creating constraint-based layouts (21:50)
Applying styles to MXML components (29:06)
Exercise 15: Working with constraints and using MXML styles
Skinning components with Adobe CS3 (28:14)
Exercise 16: Skinning components graphically
Creating view states (23:01)
Animating with behaviors and transitions (18:06)
Exercise 17: Working with view states, animation, and transitions
Drawing shapes with the Drawing API (22:32)
Skinning components programmatically (12:09)
Exercise 18: Drawing shapes and programmatic skinning
Extending components (27:27)
Exercise 19: Extending components

Day 5: Architecture and advanced topics

Note: The following videos have been compiled from various resources. Source files for these videos are currently unavailable.
Understanding the behavior of the Flash timing mechanism (4:18)
Using custom Flash graphics in Flex components (6:42)
Using and animating filters (4:35)
Exercise 20: Using and animating filters
Creating SWC files (10:46)
Exercise 21: Creating SWC files
Building runtime shared libraries (7:15)
Exercise 22: Building runtime shared libraries
Splitting your application into modules (8:45)
Communicating over local connections (6:20)
Exercise 23: Communicating over local connections
Using shared objects (4:20)
Exercise 24: Using shared objects
Reducing the file size of your Flex application (4:58)
Embedding video in your application (2:09)
Exercise 25: Embedding video
Controlling video using Ajax (2:19)
Localization using resource bundles (5:05)
Exercise 26: Localization using resource bundles
(Optional) Integrating Flex with PHP using XML (7:44)