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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

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In addition to the Open Source Flex SDK, there are useful tools for enhancing the application development experience such as the debug version of the Adobe Flash Player runtime and Adobe AIR for deploying applications outside of the browser. There are also professional IDE's such as Adobe Flash Builder FDT, Flash Develop and more. 1 source

The Flex applications can be written in ActionScript and/or MXML (ie Macromedia XML).

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Where do I get help using Flex?

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There are multiple resources online to help learn and use Flex:

• The Official Flex homepage
• Flex 4.6 SDK Reference
• ActionScript3 Reference
• Flex Cookbook
• Flex forums at Adobe
• Stack Overflow has a vibrant community.
• Flexcoders mailing list has over 12k members
• Apache Flex users list (this is not the Flex SDK Dev list)
• Flex IRC channel at irc.freenode.net #flex.

Does Flex cost money?

No. The Flex SDK is free for both personal and commercial use. You can compile your projects using the Adobe mxmlc compiler which is included with the Flex SDK download. Some of the tooling costs money.

Is Flex Open Source?

Yes. Apache only hosts open source projects.

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You can submit bug requests to the Jira server.

How do I submit a patch?

A video tutorial on Compiling and Contributing to ApacheFlex using IntelliJ is available here http://youtu.be/5COE3hYqCJk?hd=1

How do I become a

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committer?

Become a Part - Its easier to join the process than you think!

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There is no compiled set of examples available at this time but many are available in . We are in search of people who will contribute and manage them.

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The Adobe Flash Player is not released or maintained by the Apache Flex project. There is a whitepaper available at Adobe.

What is the road map for Apache Flex?

The communities road map...
Adobe's road map...roadmap for Adobe's support for Flex is here. Apache projects believe in letting the committers decide what features to add and bugs to fix. In a sense the committers themselves have their own roadmaps. By participating you can become a committer. It's best to ask on the mailing list to see what people are working on.

Will the Flash Player be supported on my mobile or tablet device?

The Adobe Flash Player is not released or maintained by the Apache Flex project. Please put inquiries to Adobe.

Does Flex publish to Windows 8 mobile devices?

Does Flex publish to Android?

Yes. Flex applications can be deployed to Android in two formats: The first, which results in a smaller file size, require the user to install or have installed the AIR runtime to their device (through the Android market). The second, which results in a larger file size, does not require the AIR runtime to be installed. It does this by bundling in the AIR runtime with your application. There are tutorials online on how to install and test applications on Android.

Does Flex publish to iOS?

Yes. Flex applications can be deployed to iOS. It does this by bundling in the AIR runtime with your application. There are tutorials online on how to install and test applications on iOS.

Does Flex publish to BlackBerry Playbook?

Yes. There are tutorials online on how to install and test applications on Playbook.

Does Flex publish to the Mac App store?

There are tutorials online on how to configure and deploy your application to the Mac App store but it is not officially supported at this time.

Where is the Flex and AIR documentation?

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The official documentation is here

Where is the ActionScript reference documentation?

The official documentation is here

What is HTML5?

How does Flex compare with HTML5 / JS?

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Is the Flash Player open source?

No.1 http://sourceforge.net/adobe/flexsdk/wiki/About/