Flex 4: Developing Rich Client Applications Level 1

Prerequisites:

This course is designed for object-oriented developers who want to bring the power of Rich Internet applications to their web applications. To gain the most from this class, you should:

Be familiar with an object oriented programming language such as Java or C++
Be familiar with XML terminology

Course Description:

Flex 4: Developing Rich Internet Client Applications Level 1 provides experienced application developers with hands-on, practical experience using Flex.

This three day course introduces developers to all the primary features of Flex they'll need to know in order to build a fully functional, well architected front end for a Rich Internet Application (RIA).

This course includes the following modules:

Intro to Flash Builder & Flex SDK

• Creating our first project
• Prototyping an application in design view
• Introducing forms, the form components and validation
• Data providers, array collections and data binding
• Breaking content down into components
• Adding navigation to the application with the viewstack
• Modularising our design to promote performance and flexibility
• Changing content at runtime using view states
• Extending state changes with transitions

CSS in a Flex Context

• Modularising our CSS and exploring Actionscript 3 & event handling
• Customising the standard preloader and offloading the CSS load routine
• Using Adobe Flash content and custom components in our applications
• Customising the ModuleLoader to add flash animation
• Introducing the new Flex 4 Spark component set
• Exploring the skinning model
• Creating and implementing a custom skin with MXML and FXG
• Our first look at retrieving data dynamically and displaying it in different forms
• Sourcing our data dynamically and separating the tasks into individual components