This page is intended to give newbie's a headstart in Flex and will try to add as and when I get new link to share. I request the group to reply to this page if they have a new link to share, with their short description, I will incorporate it. Please avoid direct blog home page URI's as much as possible.
- Flex 2 FMS Explorer
http://www.flash-communications.net/technotes/flex2FMSExplorer/flex2FMSExplorer.htmlHelp: http://www.flash-communications.net/technotes/flex2FMSExplorer/
- Away3D explorer for Flex
http://www.nielsbruin.nl/flex_examples/away3d/Download from : http://away3d.com/downloads
- Flex 2 Primitive Explorer
http://www.flexibleexperiments.com/Flex/PrimitiveExplorer/Flex2PrimitiveExplorer.html
- Flex Examples
http://blog.flexexamples.com/
- Flex 2 Component Explorer
http://examples.adobe.com/flex2/inproduct/sdk/explorer/explorer.html
- Flex 3 Component Explorer
http://examples.adobe.com/flex3/componentexplorer/explorer.html
- Flex 2 Style Explorers
http://examples.adobe.com/flex2/consulting/styleexplorer/Flex2StyleExplorer.html
- Flex 3 Style Explorers
http://examples.adobe.com/flex3/consulting/styleexplorer/Flex3StyleExplorer.html
- Charting Components Explorer
http://demo.quietlyscheming.com/ChartSampler/app.html
- JAM – Just ActionScript and MXML
http://www.onflex.org/code/2006/08/fresh-jam-flex-app-right-click-for.html
- FlexSpy – To modify and inspect all the visual components off Flex
http://www.mieuxcoder.com/data/2007/12/FlexSpy-1.2/dashboard.html
- A directory of Adobe Flex components
http://flexbox.mrinalwadhwa.com/
- Flex Style Creator
http://www.flexonrails.net/stylescreator/public/
- Easing Effects Explorer
http://www.madeinflex.com/img/entries/2007/05/customeasingexplorer.html
- Color Explorer
http://kuler.adobe.com/
- Cairngorm Diagram Explorer
http://www.cairngormdocs.org/tools/CairngormDiagramExplorer.html
- Resize Manager
http://www.flex-flex.net/flex/ResizeManager/ResizeManager.htmlhttp://blogs.adobe.com/flexdoc/2007/03/creating_resizable_and_draggab.htmlhttp://www.teotigraphix.com/explorers/ResizeManagerFX/ResizeManagerFXExplorer.html
- Flex Enhanced Button Skin Explorer
http://www.wabysabi.com/flex/enhancedbuttonskin/
- Flex Book
http://www.rubenswieringa.com/code/as3/flex/Book/
- Distortion Effects Explorer
http://www.alex-uhlmann.de/flash/adobe/blog/distortionEffects/effectCube/
- Random Walk
http://demo.quietlyscheming.com/RandomWalk/IconWalk.html
- Flex Super Panel
http://www.wietseveenstra.nl/files/flex/SuperPanel/v1_5/MainView.html
- Chart Range Selection Component
http://www.stretchmedia.ca/code_examples/chart_range_selection/main.html
- Dual Slider
http://www.visualconcepts.ca/flex2/dualslider2/DualSlideTest.html
- Advance Form
http://www.renaun.com/flex2/AdvancedForm/
- Drag Tile
http://demo.quietlyscheming.com/DragTile/Alphabet.html
- Dictionary – Word Information
http://mark-shepherd.com/thesaurus/
- Flex Text Effects Explorer
http://www.sakri.net/technology/flash/flex/flex_text_effects/FlexTextEffectsExplorer.html
- Flex Presentations – You can also add your presentations in this http://www.asfusion.com/projects/cf-presenter/
- MXNA Reader
http://www.asfusion.com/mxna/
- Drop Shadow
http://www.asfusion.com/examples/item/drop-shadow-en-flash-8
- Bevel Filters
http://www.asfusion.com/examples/item/bevel-filter-en-flash-8
- Bevel Filters
http://www.jamesward.com/census/
- Getting Started
http://learn.adobe.com/wiki/display/Flex/Getting+Started
- Flex 3 Help
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/index.html
- Reflection Explorer
http://www.wietseveenstra.nl/files/flex/ReflectionExplorer/v1_0/ReflectionExplorer.html
- DZone – Community for developers
http://www.dzone.com
- Flex.org – Community for Flex developers
http://flex.org
- Degrafa – Declarative graphics framework for Flex. Degrafa
allows you to use MXML markup to draw shapes, make complex graphics,
create skins and also includes advanced CSS support.
http://www.degrafa.com/
- Text layout Editor
http://www.madeinflex.com/img/entries/2007/05/customeasingexplorer.html
- Custom Easing Function Explorer
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/textlayout/demos/
- Flex Games
http://s3.amazonaws.com/apphost/MGB.html
- tour-de-flex Component Explorer
http://arunbluebrain.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/tour-de-flex-component-explorer/
- Flex Samples
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/?navID=sampleshttp://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/community_samples.html
- Flex Applications
http://www.onflex.org/flexapps/applications/Flipper/
- Scrawl Application
http://www.thebetterside.com/scrawl/ScrawlExample4.html
- Display Shelf
http://demo.quietlyscheming.com/displayShelf/index.html
- Rating Component
http://www.flexibleexperiments.com/Flex/RatingComponent/Blog_Post_Rating_Component.html
- Create Flow Chart
http://my.lovelycharts.com/
- Designer Effects for Flex
http://www.efflex.org/
- find answers to your Flex questions
http://sandboxviolation.appspot.com
- Flex 3 regular expression explorer
http://ryanswanson.com/regexp/#start
- Adobe bugs and issue management system
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/secure/Dashboard.jspa
- Rich Spatial Flex viewer
http://flex888.com/lab/geoweb/flexviewer/
- Color tool
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/marketplace/index.cfm?event=marketplace.offering&offeringid=10763&marketplaceid=1
- Advance data visualization for flex
http://www.ilog.com/products/ilogelixir/demos/
- RIA Trax Explorer
http://www.insideria.com/2009/03/riatrax-flex-event-tracking-no.htmlhttp://labs.happytoad.com/RIATrax/explorer/
- 25 Excellent And Useful Adobe AIR Tutorials & Resources
http://www.smashingapps.com/2009/03/06/25-excellent-and-useful-adobe-air-tutorials-resources.html
- Visualization Explorer
http://lab.benstucki.net/archives/visualizationexplorer/
- CSS3 Box Explorer
http://lab.benstucki.net/archives/css3boxexplorer/
- Scroller Explorer
http://lab.benstucki.net/archives/scrollerexplorer/
- Pixel 3D Explorer
http://lab.benstucki.net/archives/pixel3dexplorer/
- Google Social Graph Explorer
http://dreamingwell.com/examples/flex/googleSocial/GoogleSocial.htmlhttp://www.tarasnovak.com/lab/FlexSVGExplorer/01/FlexSVGExplorer.html#
- Component Framework
http://blog.benstucki.net/index.php?paged=10
- Opensocial
http://code.google.com/p/opensocial-actionscript-client-sdk/http://code.google.com/p/as3opensociallib/
- Library of Flex Components
http://code.google.com/p/flexlib/
- Open Flux – Framework
http://code.google.com/p/openflux/
- Degrafa – Declarative graphics framework for Flex. Degrafa
allows you to use MXML markup to draw shapes, make complex graphics,
create skins and also includes advanced CSS support.
http://code.google.com/p/degrafa/
- FlexLib Component List
http://code.google.com/p/flexlib/wiki/ComponentList
- Firebug for flex applications
http://code.google.com/p/fxspy/
- lightweight logger extension for Flex 3-4, AIR and Flash 9-10 applications
http://code.google.com/p/flash-thunderbolt/
- List of 31 Flex APIs, Libraries, Components and Tools
http://seantheflashguy.com/blog/2007/08/21/list-of-31-flex-apis-libraries-components-and-tools/
- List of 22 ActionScript 3.0 API’s
http://seantheflashguy.com/blog/2007/08/13/list-of-22-actionscript-30-apis/
- ActionScript 3.0 APIs developed specifically for Adobe Flex and AIR.
http://www.ericfeminella.com/blog/actionscript-3-apis/
- ASMailer : The ASMailer class sends emails using
an SMTP server. ASMailer sends mail without the need of a server side
language like PHP or JSP.
http://asmailer.riaforge.org/
- Away3d 2.1 : Away3D is a realtime 3d engine for flash in ActionScript 3.0
http://away3d.com/away3d-21-demos-docs
- Bullet Graph : A good way to show actual time spent vs. the estimated time for a project
http://agileui.blogspot.com/2008/05/bullet-graph-free-flex-component.html
- Degrafa : Declarative Graphics Framework
http://www.degrafa.com/
- Desuade Partigen : Desuade Partigen is an
extension for Adobe Flash which lets you create realistic vector and
raster particle effects (such as fire, smoke, sparkles), without
requiring you to do any complex coding.
http://desuade.com/products/partigen/
- EasyMVC : EasyMVC is an event driven MVC framework which focuses on flexibility while not getting in the developers way.
http://projects.simb.net/easyMVC/
- Five3D : vector-based 3d rendering framework by
Mathieu Badimon – has just received a significant update, bringing it
to version 2.1. New features this version brings: Back Face Culling,
Flat Shading, Z-sorting, Space Drawing functions, Bitmap3D class,
Video3D class, Sprite2D Class, Letter Spacing, Text Width
http://five3d.mathieu-badimon.com/
- Flash Player 10 API Documentation!
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer10_as3langref_052008.zip
- Flex 3 Performance and Memory Profiling : Memory
profiling lets you look at objects being created, take snapshots and
compare them. Performance profiling allows snapshots for looking at
cumulative and internal time.
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_3:Feature_Introductions:_Performance_and_Memory_Profiling
- Flex 3 RSLs : Use Flex 3 runtime-shared-libraries
(RSLs) to reduce the size of your applications and thereby reduce the
time required to download the application. RSLs are just SWF files
whose code is used as a shared library between different application
SWF files.
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_3:Feature_Introductions:Flex_3_RSLs
- Flex 4 States syntax changes : Flex 4 will target
all of the legacy usage scenarios of classic Flex states functionality
(stateful components, states as application views or pages, effects and
transitions between view states, etc.). This document outlines what is
primarily a syntax change for the existing functionality.
http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Enhanced+States+Syntax
- Flex and Flex Developers Magazine
http://www.ffdmag.com/
- Flex Designer Scroll Bars : skinny little tone on tone scroll bars that have no scroll arrows
http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2008/05/designer_scroll.html
- FlexMDI : flexmdi is a robust, extensible Multiple Document Interface framework for Adobe Flex.
http://code.google.com/p/flexmdi/
- Flex Resource Bundles : Resource bundle is a set
of values that you externalize from your source code in a properties
file. And it can be swapped out at compile time or, with Flex 3, at
runtime. Think of it like a style sheet for values.
http://blog.extends.eventdispatcher.org/roger/introduction-to-flex-resource-bundles/
- FOAM : two-dimensional rigid body physics engine written in ActionScript 3.0.
http://code.google.com/p/foam-as3/
- Go3D : Cool Tweening Engine, the Go3D which give you more control over moving objects in 3d space.
http://code.google.com/p/goplayground/source/checkout
- GoogleMap Flex Component : A new component for Flex Developers who want to add more control or be very well organized.
http://www.igorcosta.org/?p=140
- Guttershark : Actionscript 3 library that pushes
some simple conventions on you, only to make you faster as a developer.
It’s a pattern for Flash development that cuts out a huge amount of
time, especially when you’re in the first stages of development.
http://www.guttershark.net/
- ILOG Elixir : A suite of professional user
interface controls that gives developers a rich collection of
innovative and interactive data display components. It includes
ready-to-use schedule displays, map displays, dials, gauges, 3D and
radar charts, a treemap chart and organization charts.
http://www.ilog.com/products/ilogelixir/
- LoadingImage : Takes a regular Flex Image component, and adds a self contained ProgressBar to it to show its own loading progress.
http://www.munkiihouse.com/?p=135
- Logger Library and RIALogger : The Logger
component provides classes to that abstract the Flex 2 Log and logging
Target classes. It provides a simple approach to logging messages with
category information and provide hooks into multiple targets. It
supports the following logging targets by default: RIALoggerTarget,
TraceTarget (trace()), XPanelTarget, and FlexTracePanelTarget. The
LogController also provides functionality to allow you to setup your
own custom logging Target.
http://renaun.com/blog/flex-components/rialogger/
- Mate : Mate is a tag-based, event-driven Flex framework.
http://mate.asfusion.com/index.cfm
- Merapi : Merapi is a new project that is a framework for connecting AIR to java at the desktop.
http://adamflater.blogspot.com/search/?q=merapi
- MinimalComps : Minimal AS3 UI Component Set :
CheckBox, PushButton, HSlider, VSlider, InputText, ProgressBar,
RadioButton, ColorChooser (text input only) and Panel.
http://www.bit-101.com/minimalcomps/
- OpenFlux : OpenFlux is an open-source Flex component framework which allows developers to create radically new and custom Flex components.
http://code.google.com/p/openflux/
- PeekPanel : Cool way to hide options or
preferences in an application. It borrows the look and feel from the
FlexBook/PageFlip components already out there, but instead of
simulating a book, this is more of a way to use the “flip” to hide
other components.
http://www.billdwhite.com/wordpress/?p=29
- PlexiGlass
http://www.bobjim.com/category/plexiglass/
- Share (Document Services API) : Online service provided by Adobe that allows you to share, publish, and organize documents online.
http://code.google.com/p/as3sharelib/downloads/list
- Slide : Slide is an application framework for
projects built in Flex 2 or 3. Using familiar design patterns, Slide
provides a robust MVC structure, view state management decoupled from
view implementation and a flexible approach to model and controller
access, eliminating need for singleton classes.
http://code.google.com/p/flex-slide/
- Sandy 3.0.2 : Sandy is an intuitive and user-friendly 3D open-source library.
http://www.flashsandy.org/versions/3.0
- Sprouts : Sprouts is an open-source,
cross-platform project generation and configuration tool for
ActionScript 2, ActionScript 3, Adobe AIR and Flex projects.
http://www.projectsprouts.org/
- Universal Mind Extensions for Adobe Cairngorm : Universal Mind has extended the classic Adobe 2.2.x Cairngorm version to provide many productivity and maintenance enhancements.
http://code.google.com/p/flexcairngorm/
- Video Tutorial on Compiling for Flash Player 10
http://theflashblog.com/?p=383
- Virtual Space (AS 3.0) V. 1.0 : The Virtual Space
is an AS3 component that can be used to create virtual-tour type
visualizations very easily. Simply specify 6 images to be used for top,
bottom, left, right, front, and back. Then, position the camera, set
the initial view, and specify interaction parameters.
http://www.afcomponents.com/components/virtual_space_as3/
- TextArea Explorer
http://www.techizzles.com/2009/03/14-most-productive-adobe-air-applications/
- Noise Explorer
http://www.bit-101.com/explorers/NoiseExplorer.swf
- Perlin Explorer
http://www.bit-101.com/explorers/PerlinExplorer.swf
- Threshold Explorer
http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=819
- PixelBender
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/demos/pixelbender/http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=productHome&exc=26&loc=en_us