Tag Archives: Tour de Flex

Mar 8th, 2011

Adobe AIR Launchpad and Tour de Mobile Flex Updated

Adobe AIR Launchpad has been updated to support 8 languages – English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese and Russian! This and other new features are documented on Holly Schinsky’s blog Also, James Ward recently updated Tour de Mobile Flex to now target AIR 2.6. You’ll notice some nice performance improvements, especially with scrollable lists. [...]

Tour de Flex expanded to include mobile samples!

Jan 27th, 2011

Tour de Flex expanded to include mobile samples!

Tour de Flex now has a bunch of new mobile samples!   This brings Tour de Flex to 609 total samples!  If you haven’t checked out Tour de Flex lately, you should. Holly Schinsky wrote a blog post with more details on the new samples. If you are ready to try your first mobile app [...]

Getting started with Flex on mobile devices and tablets

Dec 3rd, 2010

Getting started with Flex on mobile devices and tablets

If you are an Adobe Flex developer and haven’t dipped your toe into the world of building mobile applications, skip your next lunch break and check it out!  It is incredibly fun and the resulting apps are impressive.  Because the tooling and SDK to make mobile app development with Flex possible is all in pre-release, [...]

Distributing content world wide using Amazon CloudFront

Oct 5th, 2010

Distributing content world wide using Amazon CloudFront

A few days ago, I announced that many of the samples in Tour de Flex are now hosted in 16 distributed locations.  As promised, here are the details: Prior to last Friday, most of the Tour de Flex samples were hosted from a dedicated server in California.  For those of us in the US, the [...]

Tour de Flex Samples now hosted in 16 locations across planet earth

Sep 30th, 2010

Tour de Flex Samples now hosted in 16 locations across planet earth

A few weeks ago, Tour de Flex passed the 20 million samples served milestone very quietly.  The quietness was not intentional…. we were just too busy to notice when it happened!  Traffic continues to be very strong and very spread out across the globe.  Starting a few minutes ago, all of the Tour de Flex [...]

Adobe AIR Launchpad – a tool for Flex developers building AIR applications

Aug 23rd, 2010

Adobe AIR Launchpad – a tool for Flex developers building AIR applications

During the past two years, I’ve met a lot of developers going through the process of learning to build desktop applications on Adobe AIR. As they learn AIR, these developers face the same set of challenges — enabling auto-update, setting up icons, creating an install badge, accessing the SQLite database, and using the many other [...]

Tour de Flex 2.0 – AIR and Flex Component and API Explorer Launched!

Jun 18th, 2010

Tour de Flex 2.0 – AIR and Flex Component and API Explorer Launched!

We just posted Tour de Flex 2.0.  If you already have a previous version of Tour de Flex, it should auto-update to 2.0.   This latest version has several bug fixes and now requires AIR 2.0 to support many new AIR 2.0 samples.   Go grab it and check out the new samples in the [...]

May 18th, 2010

New IBM ILOG Elixir Data Visualization samples in Tour de Flex

We just posted some new IBM ILOG Elixir 3.0 samples in Tour de Flex under the Data Visualization category. Here are some highlights: Supports Flex SDK 4.0 & Flash Builder 4.0 New: Diagram components (Spark) New: Timeline component (Spark) Improved: Gantt chart components Many new features including tasks item renderers coded in FXG, printing, re-designed [...]

Feb 25th, 2010

yFiles FLEX diagram editor sample added to Tour de Flex

Michael Schroeder from yWorks has added a sample to Tour de Flex to showcase their yFiles FLEX diagram editor featuring server-side calculation of automatic graph layouts. Check it out!  You’ll find the new sample under “Other Components”.  Click here to go directly to this sample in the web version of Tour de Flex.