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Choosing a Flex framework…

This is a summary written by Jeremy regarding the popular framework currently available for Flex.So that you can make the most informed choice possible regarding which framework best suits the needs of your team or project. It covers the Cairngorm, Mate, PureMVC, and Swiz frameworks. (you can view the presentation here).

Frameworks must be simple and maintanable, rather than popular or complecated.

What makes a flex app big in size ??

Generally what makes a flex app big in size
1.Try to load your assets (images/animations) at runtime.
2. Try not to embed fonts. If you don’t really need a special font, or advanced anti-aliasing and you are not applying any effects and transformations (alpha, rotation etc.) to your text, you don’t need to embed fonts.
3.Another important concept is that of modular applications. Here are the docs:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=modular_1.html
4.make sure you are looking at a “production” compile and not a debug compile.  There is significant difference in swf size.
5.not forget the Runtime Shared Libraries.  If you can offload the Flex Framework into and RSL that will significantly decrease your swf’s size.  The initial load will be the full 1mb, unless the user has been to another site that loaded the RSLs already into the flash player cache.  Every subsequent load will be reduced by about 500kb if you’re using the full flex framework.

Sorry!!! not updated my blog for 2 months

I was not able to update my blog for the last 2 months after june 5 th…i was busy in a project..”Audio chat using Flex and FMS(flash media server)”…(   finallyy it released… It is my first time working with FMS..a nice expirence….i could feel how an application fully built in flex  reduces headachee!!….(browser and OS)….

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