ArcGIS API and Viewer for Flex 2.5 now available

<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 10px="10px"  0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT: 12px="12px" /1.6em Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">The ArcGIS API for Flex enables you to build dynamic rich Internet applications (RIAs) for ArcGIS Server. The new 2.5 release includes support for WMTS layers, enhanced support for KML, and an improved editing user experience. It also supports cloud-based services hosted on ArcGIS Online (available for those who are beta testing the 10.1 subscription program for ArcGIS Online). Finally, the 2.5 release incorporates bug fixes and enhanced support for ArcGIS.com web maps.</p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 10px="10px"  0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT: 12px="12px" /1.6em Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">The updated API is available for download from the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a style="COLOR: rgb(12,97,141)" href="http://links.esri.com/flex">ArcGIS API for Flex Resource Center</a>.</p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 10px="10px"  0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT: 12px="12px" /1.6em Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">Coinciding with the release of the API, the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex 2.5 is offered under the Apache 2.0 License, includes a new chart widget, and has its source code available on GitHub. This significant release includes a new experience for configuring the Viewer using an application builder, enabling new users to easily configure and deploy a new application without programming or editing an XML configuration file.</p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 10px="10px"  0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT: 12px="12px" /1.6em Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">The updated Viewer is available for download from the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a style="COLOR: rgb(12,97,141)" href="http://links.esri.com/flexviewer">ArcGIS Viewer for Flex Resource Center</a>.</p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 10px="10px"  0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT: 12px="12px" /1.6em Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">Using the new ArcGIS Viewer for Flex 2.5, you can use its application builder to interactively select web maps from ArcGIS Online as the data source for a new web application.</p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 10px="10px"  0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT: 12px="12px" /1.6em Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: rgb(204,204,204) 1px="1px"  solid; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px="1px"  solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 5px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(247,246,242); MARGIN: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; WIDTH: 430px; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; HEIGHT: 307px; BORDER-TOP: rgb(204,204,204) 1px="1px"  solid; BORDER-RIGHT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px="1px"  solid; PADDING-TOP: 5px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial" title="Configure the="the"  map" alt="Configure the="the"  map" src="http://downloads.esri.com/blogs/arcgisserver/images/flex25_maps_tab.jpg" width="430" height="307"/></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 10px="10px"  0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT: 12px="12px" /1.6em Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">To add and configure widgets for the Viewer, just point and click.</p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 10px="10px"  0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT: 12px="12px" /1.6em Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: rgb(204,204,204) 1px="1px"  solid; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px="1px"  solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 5px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(247,246,242); MARGIN: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; WIDTH: 430px; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; HEIGHT: 307px; BORDER-TOP: rgb(204,204,204) 1px="1px"  solid; BORDER-RIGHT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px="1px"  solid; PADDING-TOP: 5px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial" title="Configure the="the"  widgets" alt="Configure the="the"  widgets" src="http://downloads.esri.com/blogs/arcgisserver/images/flex25_widgets_tab.jpg" width="430" height="307"/></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 10px="10px"  0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT: 12px="12px" /1.6em Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">The application builder contains an interactive WYSIWYG preview that you can use to see your map.</p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 10px="10px"  0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT: 12px="12px" /1.6em Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: rgb(204,204,204) 1px="1px"  solid; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px="1px"  solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 5px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(247,246,242); MARGIN: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; WIDTH: 430px; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; HEIGHT: 307px; BORDER-TOP: rgb(204,204,204) 1px="1px"  solid; BORDER-RIGHT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px="1px"  solid; PADDING-TOP: 5px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial" title="Preview the="the"  map" alt="Preview the="the"  map" src="http://downloads.esri.com/blogs/arcgisserver/images/flex25_preview_tab.jpg" width="430" height="307"/></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 10px="10px"  0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT: 12px="12px" /1.6em Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">We hope you enjoy working with the latest release.</p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 10px="10px"  0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT: 12px="12px" /1.6em Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><i>Contributed by the ArcGIS API for Flex development team</i></p>