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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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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