 | Level: Intermediate Joe Lennon (joe@joelennon.com), Software Developer, Core International
18 Nov 2008 Adobe® has released the free, open source Flex SDK framework to enable developers
to create Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). The Flex framework provides you with
a method of creating cross-browser, cross-platform Web applications that is quick and
simple. Flex applications run in the Flash player, which is installed on the majority of
Internet-connected computers, but Flex also provides you with an object-oriented
user interface framework similar to Java™ Swing. In this tutorial, develop a
Facebook application in Adobe Flex that displays a slideshow of a user's Facebook
photo albums. The Facebook application will contain a profile box listing all of the
user's photo albums, each a link to a Flex slideshow of that album. The Flex application
will use the Facebook REST API to fetch the photos of the selected Facebook album and
dynamically generate the slideshow.
In this tutorial
This tutorial provides you with a foundation in developing Facebook
applications using the Adobe Flex SDK and the Facebook development
platform. You'll first be introduced to the concepts of Adobe Flex, in particular MXML and
ActionScript. Then we'll look at Facebook applications
and the tools available to developers, such as FBML (Facebook Markup
Language), FQL (Facebook Query Language) and the REST API. Next, we
set up the
development environment by installing the Flex SDK, and I'll explain the structure of
a Flex application and show you how to create a Facebook application. We then create a basic
Flex application, which lays the foundation for the sample application that
follows, a Facebook slideshow application.
Objectives
Create interactive Facebook applications using the free Adobe Flex SDK.
Prerequisites
You will need the following tools to follow along with this tutorial:
Duration
1 hour
Formats html, pdf
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