Great! That was really helpful to start off. I bet you! Such a pain to shift from photoshop to illustrator. But as you said, it would be fruitful! Just happen to read through some articles. I can use fxg documents from illustrator in flex and keep it vector completely.
Thanks again.. Cheers! On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Tianzhen Lin <tang...@usa.net> wrote: > Flex/Flash is vector-based UI, when all assets are expressed in the form of > vector, the UI can easily go resolution-independent, that means your app > would look just as sharp on 72-dpi old monitor, to 120/150-dpi modern > monitor all the way to retina display on iPhone 4 and above. > > With image/bitmap-based approach, if you supply multiple version of images > catering each resolution, you will have optimal display quality but it > increases the burden of image preparation. This is not issue of Flex or > Flash, it is any bitmap-based approach will have this problem, notably > HTML/HTML 5. > > If you opt for not supplying multiple versions of images, you will then > force the app to resize an image, which is generally an expensive operation > especially if you turn on interpolation for better display quality. > > With the shortcoming of Photoshop-base UI mockup, lately I have been > switching over to Adobe Illustrator for UI design, it is painful at first > but the investment is well worth for the outcome. > > Tangent > > -----Original Message----- > From: Deepak MS [mailto:megharajdee...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 1:43 AM > To: dev@flex.apache.org > Cc: us...@flex.apache.org > Subject: Flex app using images > > Hi there, > > Just wanted to check if we can built an app in flex by using sliced > images(all the screens of the app) from a UI design done in Photoshop(or > any > UI editing tool), without any performance issues? > > > > I have been working on iPad apps by just skinning the components. But > sometimes there are some UI designs which are difficult to achieve by > skinning. > > > > Hence wanted to know if we can extensively use images to build an app in > flex. Something like these: > > http://dribbble.com/shots/172145-Mobile-admin-dashboard-iPad-UI-UX-iOS > > http://dribbble.com/shots/722800-Experiment-with-Metro-UI/attachments/68300 > > > > Kindly let me know what can be the best approach. > > > > Cheers, > > Deepak > >
