Fact Check Michele Bachmann with Politifact and Flex

During the GOP presidential debate last night, Michelle Bachmann said this:

After the debate that we had last week, Politifact came out and said that everything I said was true.

Did Politifact really give her a “True” rating across the board for a performance in the previous debate?

The best way to check if you are on the go, is to use Politifact’s mobile application which was built with Flex and runs on the iPhone, the iPad, the BlackBerry PlayBook, the Kindle Fire, the Barnes and Noble Nook, and other Android devices… using the exact same code. 100% code reusability.
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Mobile Development with Flex 4.6 and Spring

My Mobile Development with Flex 4.6 and Spring video (using the Spring BlazeDS Integration project) is available on Adobe TV. You can watch it here.

The Flex Spring Mobile Test Drive is hosted on GitHub and documented here.

Video: New Components in Flex 4.6

Holly and I have been working on an Expense Report application for tablets. We used a Flex 4.5 version in our session at MAX this year, but we have also been working on a 4.6 version in parallel. The new components in Flex 4.6 are really helping delivering a great experience on tablets. You can read more about Flex 4.6 here. Thanks to ESRI and Mansour for the great maps.

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MAX Session Video: How to Develop Amazing Mobile Enterprise Apps with Flex

It was great to see a lot of you at MAX this year. If you you didn’t attend MAX or my session, the video is now available. You can watch it here:
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Flex / Spring Mobile Test Drive: Learn the Best Way to Build Java-Backed iOS, Android and PlayBook Apps

Flex is a powerful application framework for building first-class mobile applications for iOS, Android, and the BlackBerry PlayBook using a single programming model, a single tool, and a single code base.

If you are a Java developer, the Flex programming model is also easy to master because it is syntactically very close to Java. The Flex IDE (Flash Builder) is a plugin on top of Eclipse, which means that you can write, debug, and profile your client and server code in the same development environment.

You can also easily integrate Flex applications with a Java back end using the Remoting and Messaging services provided by BlazeDS (open source) or LCDS (commercial license). For Spring developers, the integration is even easier and more powerful using the Spring/BlazeDS integration project, which makes the Flex and Spring combination the best way to build cross-platform iOS, Android, and PlayBook applications with a Java back end.
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Using jQuery in a Flex Application

This is a follow up to my previous post on how to invoke a JavaScript function in an HTML document hosted in a Flex application (using the StageWebView).

The Flex application of course doesn’t care about — and is not aware of — the way your JavaScript is written and which libraries you use. However, I’m currently working on a hybrid mobile application where the HTML hosted in the StageWebView is powered by jQuery, and I find the combination of the two technologies powerful. So I figured I’d share a simple example here.

This is the same example as the one in my previous post with the exception that the HTML part is powered by jQuery.

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Flex Mobile: Invoking JavaScript in a StageWebView

The StageWebView allows you to render HTML content inside a Flex application using the underlying HTML rendering engine available on your mobile device.

In some situations, the Flex application may need to communicate with the HTML document hosted in the StageWebWiew. In other words, you may need to invoke a JavaScript function available in that document from the Flex application.

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Multi-Touch Charts for iOS, Android, and PlayBook: Source Code Available on GitHub

After MobileTrader and MobileDashboard, the last sample application I built during the Flex 4.5 beta program was a sales pipeline application with custom charts built with FXG and a number of interesting touch interactions. I just pushed the source code on GitHub as well:

https://github.com/ccoenraets/SalesbuilderMobile

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MobileDashboard for iOS, Android, and PlayBook: Source code available on GitHub

I continue to see a very high level of interest for data visualization applications on mobile devices. Tablets in particular are fast becoming the device of choice for dashboards, analytics, and BI applications. With its powerful charting components library, Flex is the ideal solution for building these applications. And because it’s Flex, it’s also cross-platform: the same application runs on iOS, Android and the BlackBerry PlayBook. One codebase.

As an example, I built a simple “dashboard portal” during the beta program. Now that Flex 4.5.1 is out with built-in support for iOS, Android, and the PlayBook, it’s time to share the source code publicly.

The source code is available here: https://github.com/ccoenraets/MobileDashboard

Usual disclaimer about the source code: This is a sample application, I intentionally cut some corners, used the out-of-the box look and feel, etc.

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MobileTrader for iOS, Android, and PlayBook: Source code now available on GitHub

I made some changes to the MobileTrader application and took the opportunity to push the source code to GitHub. You can get it here: https://github.com/ccoenraets/MobileTrader

This version was built with the shipping version of Flex and Flash Builder 4.5.1 which has built-in support for iOS, Android and the BlackBerry PlayBook.

The most notable change in this version is that I enabled the real time collaboration feature (with your financial advisor). This includes video conference, user interface synchronization, etc. You will need a LiveCycle Collaboration Service room URL to enable this feature. You can sign up for a developer version here: https://afcs.acrobat.com. You can still use the application without enabling the real time collaboration feature.

Usual disclaimer about the source code: This is a sample application, I intentionally cut some corners, etc.

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