Learn techniques and lessons from real-world mobile application development, including UI/skinning approaches, custom components, platform integration, application architecture, and device dependent considerations. You'll come away better prepared to embrace the industry-shifting paradigm change that mobile development promises.

Technical Evangelist James Ward showcases the new DataGrid component in Flex 4.5, and explains how the new Spark architecture makes it easier than ever to customize and skin these components.

Join Enrique Duvos, Adobe Flash Platform evangelist, as he introduces you to creative layout techniques leveraging the new Flex 4 SDK component model and layout architecture. You'll learn how to develop sophisticated layouts from both a technical and user experience point of view. Topics will include assignable layouts, transformations, 3D, visual orchestration, and more.

Join Aaron Pederson and James Polanco, Flex component development experts, as they walk you through the inner workings of the Flex framework and explain how to write extensible, rich, and highly performing components. They will cover the new Spark component and skinning architecture and how to use it correctly to build Spark components for use in Flex applications.

Jeff Tapper from Digital Primates explores Flex 4’s new component architecture, new states paradigm, and how to use things like a ViewStack or DataGrid (both of which don’t have Flex 4 versions) in your Flex 4 application.

Join Platform Evangelist Michael Chaize as he examines the new component architecture in Flex 4. He highlights the ability to customize both the views and behaviors of objects in a project.

Flex SDK Engineer, Ryan Frishberg, shows the new Spark skinning architecture in Flex 4 by creating a new skinnable stopwatch component and a few different skin files.

Explore the power of the List component in Flex 4, and dig deep into the layout mechanism that allows you to create new and interesting components displaying data. It is recommended that you have an understanding of the Spark architecture before attending

Come hear why folks are excited about the upcoming release of Flex 4. This session will explore the new component architecture and how skinning, effects, and layouts have been enhanced as a result. Also see how you can leverage new Flash Player 10 capabil