What the difference between Flex and Air in RIA?

Hello

I want to learn how to build RIA, however, build them with Adobe Flex or Adobe Air or both? What we I first start learning?

Also, which version of Flex is the best? Flex 3 or Flex 4.

If someone can give me the basics of the where I should start first would be great.

And I'm wrong assuming the Flex SDK kit and Air SDKS are free?

Thank you

Ghibli Lama

Hi Ghibli,

Flex is a framework for building applications that run in Flash Player.  AIR is a framework for deploying RIA on the desktop.  It can be used with Flex-based applications or it could be used for applications built using HTML/Javascript for example.  Basically, AIR allows you to use web languages and development practices to build cross-platform desktop applications.

Software development kits are free and you can get them from here:

Flex 4 - http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Download+Flex+4

AIR - http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=airsdk

I would recommend Flex 4 since this is the version currently in production.  Flash Builder 4 is the latest version of the Adobe IDE for developing Flex/AIR applications.  It is not free, but there is a free trial period.  There are other free options out there for a development environment, but I am not very familiar with any of them.  You can see Flash Builder 4 here - http://www.adobe.com/products/flashbuilder/

Since the start, the net is full of info on these two topics and this forum is a good place to get info.  You can begin to familiarize themselves with what Flex is here - http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/overview/ and AIR - http://www.adobe.com/products/air/

Good luck!

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