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

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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What is the road map for Apache Flex?

There is no official roadmap for the Apache Flex project but many of the current goals have been listed in the Apache Flex goals question on this page. There may or may not be an official or unofficial road map at some point in the future. The discussion on this topic has been discussed at length and the consensus has generated two responses. If you want something in Flex start working on it or discuss it and get others involved to work and / or vote on it. The other response has been to get out a parity release with the Adobe Flex 4.6 SDK and then revisit it then. The 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?

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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/