Flex Training Class

Flex: Building Rich Internet Applications Training Class Course Topics

Module 1: Introducing Adobe Flex 4

• Introducing the Adobe Flash Platform
• Understanding Adobe Flex development technologies
• Understanding Flex application deployment
• Exploring the Flash Builder interface
• Creating a Flex project

Module 2: Understanding Flex 4 fundamentals

• Understanding Adobe Flex namespaces
• Understanding Flex components
• Laying out and styling with Flash Builder
• Compiling and running an application
• Creating custom components

Module 3: Introducing skinning

• Accessing and using structured data within a custom component
• Introducing data binding
• Updating visual controls using dynamic data

Module 4: Introducing object-oriented programming (optional)

• Introducing OOP terminology
• Understanding MXML classes
• Creating a class property
• Writing a class definition in ActionScript
• Creating instances of an ActionScript class
• Creating class methods

Module 5: Understanding components and layouts in Adobe Flex

• Introducing visual components
• Introducing Spark layout classes
• Introducing the Spark container classes
• Using constraints to control component layout
• Adding scrollbars to containers

Module 6: Handling events in Adobe Flex

• Understanding events
• Implementing event handlers
• Creating ActionScript event handler functions
• Understanding the event object
• Understanding event bubbling
• Adding event listeners with ActionScript

Module 7: Validating and formatting data in Adobe Flex

• Using the Form container
• Using formatters
• Validating form data
• Triggering validation with events
• Triggering validation with ActionScript

Module 8: Controlling navigation

• Understanding MX navigator containers
• Using the ViewStack container
• Using a Spark container inside MX navigator containers
• Creating custom navigation for the ViewStack container
• Using the TabNavigator container
• Using the Accordion container

Module 9: Controlling application state

• Understanding view states
• Controlling view states

Module 10: Animating components and states

• Applying effects to components
• Creating composite effects
• Applying transitions to application state changes
• Adding and removing components during animations

Module 11: Controlling visual display with styling

• Creating global application styles in Adobe Flex
• Defining styles and skins for components
• Introducing Advanced CSS selectors

Module 12: Skinning spark components

• Introducing skinning
• Incorporating visual elements drawn in other programs
• Changing the default display of skin parts

Module 13: Implementing advanced skinning techniques

• Implementing different visual states for a skin
• Accessing custom component properties from a skin
• Adding scrollbars to skins

Module 14: Accessing remote data

• Using HTTP Service to load remote data
• Handling returned data and faults
• Making HTTP requests with parameters
• Using the wizards in Adobe Flex

Module 15: Creating a typed data model

• Understanding the need for a typed data model
• Creating an ActionScript class for typed data
• Populating an ArrayCollection with value objects
• Understanding data bindings with value objects
• Refactoring value objects

Module 16: Extending events

• Understanding the problem with bindings
• Defining the event type
• Handling the event in the main application
• Extending the Event class
• Using the extended event class
• Dispatching a value object with the extended event
• Overriding the clone method

Module 17: Rendering Content with the DataGroup container

• Displaying string data in an item renderer
• Passing UI components in the data provider
• Creating a custom item renderer
• Using the SkinnableDataContainer

Module 18: Displaying data using the DataGrid

• Using the DataGrid control
• Specifying DataGrid control columns
• Formatting DataGrid control columns
• Using item renderers and item editors
• Inline item renderers and item editors
• Item renderer and item editor components
• Using events and selected items with a DataGrid component

Module 19: Deploying Flex and AIR applications

• Compiling the Flex application
• Creating a Flex application production build
• Creating a desktop application