AS3 MadComponents Tutorial Series - Starting Out

MadComponents is
an AWESOME ActionScript 3 library for mobile UI design and App
development. It is really lightweight, fast and doesn't use any of the
FLEX framework. MadComponents provides all the tools to make really
nice functional mobile apps with Flash. One can choose to use pure
ActionScript or use a combination of AS3 and XML. The XML implementation
with MadComponents provides a clean method to populate and define the
UI. If one comes from a background in Android development this will look
very logical.

Daniel Freeman, the library author, has a nice collection of tutorials
on his blog: http://madskool.wordpress.com/ I'll list them in this post
and attempt to extend them in subsequent posts.

Tutorial 1: FB 4.5 Hello World – done the
MadComponents way

Tutorial 2: Images, and Nine Patch Images
in MadComponents

Tutorial 3: Lists
and Pickers

Tutorial 4: Building a mobile
twitter client

Tutorial 5: Deploying to
mobile devices

Tutorial 6:
More MadComponents

Tutorial 7: MadComponents AMF Service Test Drive
for Mobile

ExtendedMadness. More components and charts for
mobile developers.

I'm no zealot, but my experience with Flex on mobile has been a bit
troubling. Number one, it is an extremely large library and has a lot of
reported performance issues. I'm sure performance will get better as
time goes on, as Adobe is working hard to fix this. Number two, MXML
compiles down to AS3... so my thought is why waste time with MXML and
just use AS3 from the onset, especially when Adobe asks you to code
certain aspects (item renders) in AS3 anyway.