Adobe Flex 4 is now on active development stage and is expected to be released by 2009. The most influencing feature that has been planned about this new version is design considerations of flex applications.
In most of the cases flex applications are identified to look nearly similar because, developers use the default style of the flex components. It’s definitely a difficult job for the developer to make custom themes so that their application will look different. Flex 4 is programmed keeping design in mind so that the designers and developers can work together to make richer and engaging experience.
The features include:
1. Skinning architecture will be simpler than existing one.
2. New mxml features that will leverage the power to control user experience such as states and transitions.
3. The old MXML code will still be used in most of the cases with Flex 4 MXML tags. Only some adapter will be required to make communication between these.