I would like to test FLex application which is not working, so i would like to test other application which built on Flex GUi to verify whether my application is not supporting or issue with my system.
Please help me in getting sample GUI FLEX application for testing
I have some open source projects made with Apache Flex, this one in particular can be helpful for you:
https://github.com/PhantomAppDevelopment/icon-generator
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Is it possible to launch, integrate Adobe flex application within the electron shell?
Have someone done this before? if so, I am looking for challenges or even a possibility of using it with electron.
In order to do that you will have to migrate from Adobe (maybe apache?) Flex to the new Royale SDK. This will allow you to export as html5 and then wrap it with electron.
When migrating to Apache Royale, you can keep your as3 code but will have to rewrite most of the UI. There is also an option to "emulate" spark components but I haven't tried that.
If your intention are creating Desktop App, recompile your code with Adobe AIR and re-target for Desktop.
This will be much much much more easier.
I have a Flex web application which uses Flex 3.6 sdk.
What are all the ways to port this application iOs and Android devices.
Before the release of Flash builder 4,
I have converted my Flex 3.6 project to AIR 2.0. (Which required very minimal code change)
and used some command line tools to package it to .ipa and .apk.
Sucessfully deployed it on a iPad. Application worked as expected.
This is all I remember, I totally forgot about the procedures that i followed as it was before two years.
Now in Flash builder 4, There is a option to create "Mobile Project" which exports the application for different mobile platforms just by Rightclick on project - Export - Release Build .
but this page tells that
"Except for the MX charting controls and the MX Spacer control, mobile applications do not support the MX component set defined in the mx.* packages."
Now I really confused which approach to follow.
Can some one please clarify on these
What are all the ways to port Flex3.6 web application to iOs and Android devices.
Do I need to convert my Flex3.6 project to Flex 4 project with all MX components changed to Spark components (This requires major change in my project) for mobile platform support.
Is there any other ways to port my existing Flex3.6 application to mobile with very minimal code change.
(I understand that changes like UI size, etc needs to be taken care)
Thanks.
First of all, I don't think reusing your web application as a mobile app is a very good idea from a user experience point of view, unless the interface is extremely simple (which wouldn't warrant a full blown Flex application in the first place).
the screen size is so different that it would probably be unusable, or at least uncomfortable
you have no touch interactions defined
But to answer to your questions: the mobile components are a completely different component set. They are more lightweight and optimized for mobile interactions. To achieve this gain in performance they were based on the Spark architecture. Which means that:
There is no way to port your Flex 3 code
Yes, you'll have to convert
I can't think of any other way to port your application; minimal code change is out of the question
conclusion
Both the fact that it is technically impossible to automagically port the application from web (Flex 3) to mobile and that - even if it was - it wouldn't be recommended because of UX concerns, lead me to this suggestion: rebuild it from the ground up, both taking care of clean, optimized code for mobile and designing a UI that is appropriate for the targeted platform.
I'm quite new to developing in Flex. I've found out that it's possible to create mobile applications with Flex 4.5. So far so good, I've made an app and it's working well on my mobile phone. But there is one thing that I'm not very happy with. When I'm installing the app I also have to install Adobe Air (stand alone application). So is not realy cool and not the way to go in my opinion because this will look strange to the users of the app. And especially the users which aren't realy 'geek minded'.
Any solutions to this? Is it possible to include or embed Air in the app? It will make the filesize of the app bigger but that's a much smaller problem then having to install a complete different app next to the real app.
All the best from NL.
This feature is called Captive Runtime and was introduced in AIR 3.
To use it today, you'll have to overlay the AIR 3 SDK onto the Flex Framework of your choice (I suggest 4.5.1). Then you'll have to use command line tools to compile your app using captive runtime.
This will most likely be a lot easier when Flash Builder 4.6 rolls around.
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i am working with Flex for quite sometime. but i hadn't get any chance to even look at Adobe AIR platform. I am planning to do some personal softwares using AIR.
Provided the background that am an absolute zero in AIR, what all should I have in my system apart from Flex builder? And how fast i can learn AIR if I am pretty comfortable in Flex?
Regards,
Anoop
You can quite literally use any Flex code in AIR - the most imminent differences are the root tag of the application that is WindowApplication and a wider selection of methods available. AIR is only a platform that your Flex runs on, not an alternative or anything.
After you have created a new AIR project, you may want to check the MyTest-app.xml (or whatever the name of your app) file in the src folder. This is where, for instance, some properties of the new window created by the operating system reside.
As for tools, you'll want to install the AIR runtime if you don't have it already, but apart from that and Flex Builder you're all set!
You're in a good position to start developing AIR applications given your background in Flex. What you have to learn would depend on what you already know and the kind of application you are going to build. We can help you if you share more details about the app.
Some things you can look out for are the WindowApplication object, File systems i/o, SQLite database ops, windows/menus/task bars etc. Here's the basics for getting started with AIR app development in Flex: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/Part5_AIR_1.html
What tools, preferably open source, are recommended for driving an automated test suite on a FLEX based web application? The same tool also having built in capabilities to drive Web Services would be nice.
Adobe distributes a test framework themselves: FlexUnit.
I heard of people using selenium as a free/open source testing tool. A quick google revealed a FLEX API for it. Not sure if it works or is still in development, but it may be worth a look.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/seleniumflexapi/
Are you looking to script code-level unit tests? If so, dpuint is the bomb: http://code.google.com/p/dpuint/ . This library makes it really easy to do automated testing on all sorts of asynchronous events, on either non-visual ActionScript objects or visual components. They also have a nice multi-page tutorial on the Google Code project page.
If you are looking for functional testing tools along the lines of automated record-and-playback simulating an end user using a Flex app, HP's QuickTest Pro is the Adobe-endorsed solution. It works great, but costs about $4,000 - $6,000 per seat.
Check out FlexMonkey. It does automated testing via FlexUnit tests.
Try looking at Melomel. It has Cucumber support baked right in and comes packaged with steps for most Halo and Spark components.
http://melomel.info
There's an automated test tool called RIATest that might fit the bill for you.
Unfortunately only for Windows, and not open source, but if it does the job it might be well worth the price ($399 at time of writing).
FunFX is an option for automating UI testing. I haven't used it extensively, but I've heard of some having success with it. Here is the article where I first learned about it.
I've been extensively using FunFX for several months now on a Flex 3 + Rails project. Not only is it open source, it's also written in Ruby, so integration with web services should be fairly easy. There are a few screencasts out there covering the basics.
The Flex code that your Flex app needs is contained in the SeleniumFlexAPI distribution .swc file, SeleniumFlexAPI.swc. Just include this file as a library when you compile your Flex app.
Sikuli is good tool which can be used to test flex/flash based web applications.
-It can automate anything on graphical user interface.
-It works on Windows, MAC OSX and Linux as well as iPhone and Android.
-Here is the Sikuli link
My preferred tool is Selenium Remote Control. There is a plug-in I discovered a few months ago:
http://code.google.com/p/flash-selenium/
This required 'hooks' to be written on the server side (ActionScript/Flex). Once they were added, I was able to do some browser testing using Selenium RC.
FunFX is great. We've used it extensively and have been very happy with it. The community is also active and very responsive, so that is a big plus for me.
The new version of the Selenium-Flex API (0.2.5) works great.