ArcGIS API For Flex 1.3 Now Available

It’s been nearly six months since we have seen a release of the ArcGIS API for Flex. Since then the Flex API has grown in popularity with users actively developing some really neat applications. Most of the new applications I have seen recently have been built in Flex and it’s a great showcase for the ArcGIS API for Flex.

Late last week, the ArcGIS API for Flex 1.3 was made available. While this is a minor release it does come packed with a bundle of “goodies”.

Concepts, samples and reference documentation for the ArcGIS API for Flex has been updated as well. There has been a few bug fixes along with some changes as well as a number of new method, styles, classes and samples.

Some of the highlights of what’s new in this latest release includes:

• Support for Flex SDK 3.4
• More styling options for InfoContainer
• Well-known ID 102100 (WGS_1984_Web_Mercator_Auxiliary_Sphere) is now a supported projection for Web Mercator-based overlays (including Bing Maps). It is also used in WebMercatorUtil for projecting coordinates between geographic and Web Mercator
• Miscellaneous API improvements and bug fixes

There are a bundle of new and updated samples as well. These include:

• Select and zoom
  shows how to zoom to a feature and makes sure the whole feature is inside the map extent. 
   
• Creating a WMS Layer
  shows how to extend the DynamicMapServiceLayer to support a WMS Map Service.
• Accessing Custom Tiles
  shows how to extend the TiledMapServiceLayer to support tiles created using 9.2 ArcGIS Server (which has no REST support).

  

• Create a Surface Profile using execute() for this synchronous Geoprocessor task.

  

• Show map extent and current mouse coordinates.

  

• Use unique value renderers to render drivetime polygons based on an attribute.

  

• Create equal interval class break renderers.

  

A detailed what’s new list can be found here: http://resources.esri.com/help/… Go download and have a play with this latest build!