I think it would be interesting, but not really realistic.
The creator of Starling was unable to use the standard Flash Event and
EventDispatcher. So he instead created his own. That plus the fact that
all the Flex components are built off flash's display list classes. And
Starling is based off their own display list classes. It makes it really
a big big rewrite of Flex.
It would be very very cool though. If you could use the power of Flex
with the performance of Starling. That would be amazing.
On 2/12/2014 12:00 PM, f...@dfguy.us wrote:
I did a flex mobile app and also compiled an example feathers project. It
appears that the hardware acceleration with starling/feathers is the same
performance as native apps while flex has a larger set of libraries that are
loaded and run on the cpu. You use a number of techniques to reduce
computations to speed up flex. The flex framework does have a massive amount of
features available via mail and action script though.
What I was wondering was if it would be possible to create some feathers based
flex components for some of the basic ui stuff like scrolling lists. I also
wondered about using the starling objects (sprite/movieclip) at the base level
of the flex framework but I don't think that's possible because starling isn't
a complete replacement of all objects but I could be wrong. The only other
thing that cam to mind would be to render out a flex application to a hardware
accelerated display object of some kind but I'm not sure if the slowness is due
to the flex rendering or just managing the framework on the VP in which case
replacing the rendering phase and communications between the two would still be
slower.
In the past there were times that I used flex libraries in pure action script
projects as well by including some of the flex swc files and instantiating
classes in actionscript. I think I did this with some of the recipient classes
for example.
David
-----Original Message-----
From: Jun Heider <j...@realeyes.com>
To: dev@flex.apache.org
Sent: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: Flex vs. Actionscript Mobile Benchmarsk
On Feb 12, 2014, at 11:22 AM, Sean Thayne <s...@skyseek.com> wrote:
I think it's pretty well known that Flex is not the fastest system for
Air/Flash. It's just the most feature complete system. Starling/AS3 is much
faster than Flex. But it doesn't have any real components/features. So you
need to code up everything from the ground.
-Sean Thayne
Sean, pretty much agree with you, but don't forget about Feathers for Starling:
http://feathersui.com/
A coworker of mine has recently but a pretty sweet mobile productivity app with
it. :)
