RSS Reader in Flex - Demo
As I had mentioned before I presented a demo application on Monday for Flex. The best example I could come up with that wasn’t another overused Flickr demo was an RSS feed reader named “Feeder”. It demonstrated simple data services (HTTPService), databinding, Flex Builder’s Design vs. Source views, and some ActionScript event handling. I also quickly copied the code over to an Adobe AIR application just to show that most code could be resused between vanilla Flex and Flex/AIR.
I also made a point to do this in as little code as possible. In fact, it came out to exactly 30 lines of code and took about 15 minutes to code/explain. Realistically, I could have done less, but I wanted to make an app a little more significant than something that displayed RSS items in a DataGrid.
I’ve attached the source code for your curiosity. Feel free to comment and I would love to see anything anyone creates with this: