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

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
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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
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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
You can access the services at the following URLs
- http://hsivaramakrishnan.appspot.com/dashboard?operation=showtotal
- http://hsivaramakrishnan.appspot.com/dashboard?operation=areawise
Check this space for more demoes and tutorials on the Flash Builder and Catalyst features. Flash Ahead!









June 3, 2009 - 11:54 am
good..i link video~~
June 21, 2009 - 4:40 pm
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
December 2, 2009 - 11:17 am
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…
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