Flash/AIR on Mobile Devices
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Since I'm very visual I use Flash Pro for UI, graphics, and library management and I use Flash Builder for code.. I do AS editor inside Flash Pro sometimes because it's very good as well but Flash Builder is much more useful because you can see all your methods and stuff on the left so it's very easy to jump around and work with them. Flash Pro doesn't have that.. yet. Also, if you ever do any Eclipse dev or any other IDE based on Eclipse, you'll feel more at home if you get used to Flash Builder. Flash Builder is really great for coding.
So it's a mix of 2 really for me.. If you are familiar with Flex, I think you might actually be better off making apps with that framework because Adobe is trying to make sure they give you all controls and optimizations in performance without you thinking about it while you are building your apps (like listItemRenderer and other controls).
When you work with Flash Pro/Flash Builder in pure AS3, you will have to take care of a lot of the UI controls and performance optimizations yourself but sometimes it's worth it more because you have more freedom do stuff how you design it and like.