This is the age of mobile computing, where all the tasks and applications of computer system can be performed on mobile platform. These applications cater for faster and easier access to all computing operations, right on your mobile phone set. Thanks to Adobe Flash Platform that these applications have become friendlier with multiple operating systems and browsers.

With the advent of Adobe Flex SDK, the mobile application has reached to the next level. With help of it, mobile developers have built mobile Flex operations for tablets and touchscreen smartphones. Smartphone users now can have access to all the computing applications on their handset easily.

The potential success of Adobe Flex SDK mainly rests with its association with Adobe Flash Builder ‘Burriro’ and Adobe AIR. Initially, the development has been made targeting the Android applications, which will be upgraded with advanced add-ons to support mobile services such as Tablet OS, BlackBerry, and Apple iOS.

The main feature of mobile development using Adobe Flex SDK is its common path to address mobile applications and desktop computers. These platforms significantly cut down the cost and time of developing and testing these applications while the users can get continuous support from the application.

The architecture of the Flex SDK application depends on three modules:

·         Adobe AIR 2.5 on mobile handsets: Runtime

·         Adobe Flex SDK: Framework

·         Flash Builder ‘Burrito’: Development platform

The mobile framework development mainly depends on Adobe Flex SDK. It offers a productive and strong framework, which builds application UI. This framework connects with the server-side data on the runtime APIs. The ‘Hero’ includes features such as built-in UI components, UI formation through MXML, data access modules, widespread component architecture, data binding, and dynamic layout.

The Adobe Flex SDK functions in a twofold ways:

·         The existing modules along with their skins have been extended to make them usable on touchscreen mobile phones.

·         The new modules have been encapsulated in such a way that the application patterns can be used in smartphones.

‘Hero’ introduces advanced level mobile features, which are ornamented with the core features and at the same time with the advanced features of Flex ‘Hero’ modules and skins. These components are compatible with the mobile application and design patterns. There are a couple of simple modules in Flex SDK like Checkbox, Textinput, Button etc. which are ideal for touchscreen mobiles. These features have a special mobile theme in Flex SDK that contains skins suitable for touch applications. Apart from the components and skins, there are some additional features of Flex SDK ‘Hero’, which are optimized for touchscreen smartphones. These new modules can build standard design patterns for these smartphones.

Custom mobile app development using the Adobe Flex SDK will open a new era in mobile applications. For touchscreen smartphone, there are some specific components, which are additionally designed to increase its usability.

·         Views: This module displays a single screen for User Interface. With this component, the user can view a list under a category after tapping on the very category.

·         ActionBar: It appears above the Views. It includes a couple of buttons to perform tasks like creating new item or refreshing the view.

·         ViewNavigator: It controls the Views and Actionbar.

MobileApplication: It collates all functions of the handset in order to wrap these together into a single application class.