Harish Sivaramakrishnan

Platform Evangelist @ Adobe

Flash Builder 4 demo: Dashboard with Google App Engine – built in 10 mins

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Yay! Adobe Flash Builder 4 & Adobe Flash Catalyst beta’s are out!  Adobe Flash Builder is the next generation of Adobe Flex Builder with a whole set of new features while Adobe Flash Catalyst (erstwhile known as Thermo) which is a interaction design tool (It can convert a photoshop or an illustrator file into a functional flex app :) Download & try out the beta bits at Adobe Labs.

I am specifically kicked about the new Data Centric Development features (DCD) of Flash builder. Simple drag & drop – wizard work flows now makes connecting to a back end simpler than anything you have done before using Flex.

I am sure all of us would have seen the flex dashboard application (in case you haven’t, see it here :) )

With the Adobe Flash Builder 4 beta, A dashboard application which connects to a Google App Engine back end with interactive drill down can be built in 10 minutes (yeah, 10 minutes. Actually lesser if I am not talking :) )

Now, the interesting part – I have  two part video which demonstrates the building of this app using Flash builder with a few drag and drops and minimal coding. The completed app just has 100 lines of code (including line breaks). now, isn’t that cool?

PART 1 / 2

Watch Dashboard app part 1


view dashboard app part 2

You can access the services at the following URLs

Check this space for more demoes and tutorials on the Flash Builder and Catalyst features. Flash Ahead!

Written by Harish Sivaramakrishnan

May 30th, 2009 at 7:15 pm

6 Responses to 'Flash Builder 4 demo: Dashboard with Google App Engine – built in 10 mins'

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  1. [...] forget to check out my video tutorial to build a Dashboard app using Flash builder 4 and Google App Engine. No Comments [...]

  2. good..i link video~~

    zhangyang

    3 Jun 09 at 11:54 am

  3. This topic looks great. For more Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4 information, see this new course ‘Flex 4 Top 10 Features’ taught by Rivello Multimedia Consulting. Sign up or request it come to your town today! http://www.blog.rivello.org/?p=324

  4. The Dashboard app using Flash builder 4 and Google App Engine is very useful for me.
    Thanks for posting….valuable information..I attended the seminar which u spoke on Devsummit…in Hyderabad on Dec 1st 2009. I came to know that what is Flash catalyst…
    Thanks for sharing with us. Please keep in touch

    Niranjan

    2 Dec 09 at 11:17 am

  5. Very nice intro to Flash Builder 4. I’m still on Flex 3.5
    I’m curious to see RoR + FB 4

    Joseph

    5 Mar 10 at 6:32 am

  6. I can’t open the following URLs
    http://hsivaramakrishnan.appspot.com/dashboard?operation=showtotal
    http://hsivaramakrishnan.appspot.com/dashboard?operation=areawise

    please,sent new url to me.Because I being to learn it.
    Thank you very much.
    e-mail: sanwich_885@hotmail.com

    Yo

    3 Jun 10 at 9:46 am

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