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Development Tools for Adobe Flex / AIR?

I am starting a new development position with a company that sells many of its products in Adobe Flex. What tools should I look for to install (preferred Ubuntu Linux) for Flex development?

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As dirkgently said, installing Flex Builder 3 on Linux is a great way to succeed. It gets up and running quickly and easily, and since it is based on Eclipse, the overall environment is decent.

However, I was able to build a decent Flex-building environment using Emacs and some third-party packages to get everything working under Linux.

Here is a summary of what I used (this is not exhaustive - only what I remember):

This link is also useful for getting started. He refers to this article , which talks about integrating the Flex development environment into Linux. I was able to compile some shell scripts to compile and run applications.

Note. I did not debug, although Adobe has information about this.

Note # 2: If you decide to use Flex Builder, it will install the version of debug Flash Player 9 in your browser (you can say that it is not). I would recommend installing version 10 debugger . The builder will display a warning that does not support the version, but everything else works.

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If you can, try Flex Builder 3 alpha for Linux . What you can get (not without a set of pets, though!). However, he lacks the following results:

* Design view * States view * Refactoring * Data Wizards * Cold Fusion - Data Services Wizard * Web Services introspection * Profiler

Since AIR / Flex is cross-platform technology, I don’t understand why you want to limit yourself to Linux. At least for now, I think you're better off using Flex Builder 3 for Windows for development. You can then test your products on Linux.

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about debugging - there is an external AIR debugger called MonsterDebugger which is pretty good

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