How ColdFusion and Flex can help you rocket through Mobile Application development.

1. Mobile Apps using Flex and ColdFusion Terry Ryan Developer Evangelist http://terrenceryan.com @tpryan

2. Introduction

3. Mobile Flash Development

4. Flash on Mobile Flash Player 10.1 + In-browser content Games, video Deploy as a SWF, put on the web Air 2.5 + Mobile applications Native APIs, extra functionality Package to target individual devices

5. AIR for Devices .ipa .apk .bar

6. “Native Application” AIR for Device Applications are “Native” That means they can be put on app stores NOT that the UI components are native

7. We can use Flex to build “native applications”

8. Flex mobile challenges Complex Components: DataGrids, Charts, Tree Memory Footprint Desktop UI Screen Patterns

9. Flex 4.5 fixes that

10. Mobile Optimized Components

11. What does Mobile Optimized mean? Rewrote and optimized UIComponent Created a mobile theme which supports: Bigger components CSS Style for enabling touch (Scrollers)

12. Mobile Theme

13. Mobile UI

14. View Navigator The pattern for screens on devices Can define transitions between views Uses push/pop stack to move between views

15. Tab Navigator Tab through views Just set up multiple ViewNavigators with the firstViewproperty Can’t use push/pop

16. Actionbar Provides easy access to important features Won’t scroll Can be defined globally or for each view

17. Connecting Flex to ColdFusion

18. Data Services Wizard

19. Data Services

20. Testing Services

21. Code Generation

22. Demo Scotch on the Rocks Scheduler

23. Follow up? Feel free to contact me terry.ryan@adobe.com http://terrenceryan.com Twitter: @tpryan