AIR & Flex
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- Boz0
in simplest terms AIR is a cross plaform runtime.. Flex is a framework.
AIR allows you to build applications based on HTML/JS/CSS/Flash using Web technologies that can be deployed to desktop environment and now to mobile platforms like Android, iOS, Blackberry and in the near future Windows Phone 7 and WebOS.
Flex is a framework you use when building applications authored for Flash or AIR runtimes with Flash Builder. With Flash Builder 4.5 and Flex 4.5 aka "Hero" you can build enterprise applications and target them for all these platforms. The Flex framework gives you a lot of controls, methods and so on you can use and saves you time. It is using AS3 as a the code-logic language and MXML as an xml based markup language to describe how the code logic is executed and how Flex components are addressed in the application.
- Boz, your knowledge is very good. Do you do this for a living?SoulFly