Flash Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst betas released!
Today we released first betas of Flash Builder 4 (formerly known as Flex Builder) and Flash Catalyst. This was long awaited release as we could already feel its taste with public and open releases of Flex 4 SDK. Now the tools and SDK are available on Adobe Labs http://labs.adobe.com.
This release brings a lot of new features and improvements especially to Flex skinning and styling architecture. There is whole new framework introduced called Spark that allows full separation between UI component logic and their look. For better designer and developer workflow Flash Catalyst comes in hand supporting import of artwork from tools like Photoshop or Illustrator and converting it to Flex components.
When it comes to developer productivity improvements there are very noticeable changes in compiler performance, integrated into Flash Builder FlexUnit test wizzards, asdocs support in code hinting and I think also very much awaited code indentation.
We have also released interesting articles where you can learn more:
and some videos:
