How can ArcGIS viewer for flex Application Builder expand microservices?

ArcGIS viewer for Flex is a basic application framework provided by ArcGIS to developers, allowing users to focus on their own business development without worrying about how to design interfaces. For more information about viewer, see the open source Website: https://github.com/ArcGIS/ArcGISViewerForFlex/tags

Viewer is a framework used to develop flex applications on Web browsers. The Application Builder relies on Adobe AIR to run the Application Builder on the desktop. This builder is not open-source and can be downloaded to the latest version 3.0 at the address below. Http://links.esri.com/flex-viewer/latest-download, the number of global users who register for esri.

After the download and installation are completed, the interface is as follows:

You can install the Wizard to design your own applications, but we usually encounter a problem that these functions provided by the program by default cannot meet my business requirements. You also need to develop a function component by yourself, next, let's take a look at how to add a self-developed feature to the builder and configure it. The development of functional components and ArcGIS viewer for flex functional components development process is the same, you can refer to the following address: after the completion of http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/flex-viewer/concepts/index.html#/Creating_widgets/01m300000010000000/ development is how to use the problem.

SWF (required), widget configuration XML (optional), assets (optional), and Meta. XML (optional) four files are packaged into a ZIP folder. It is best to name your feature, as shown below:

The assets folder is a functional component icon folder. You can store a PNG Image of 40x40 based on the function. XML is a metadata configuration file for functional components. The main configuration nodes are as follows, which can be understood by English words. <? XML version = "1.0"?>
<Configuration>
<Openbydefault> true </openbydefault>
<Icon> assets/I _heatmap2.png </icon>
<Label> heatmap </label>
<Description> ArcGIS viewer for flex heat map widget </description>
<Helpurl> http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html? Id = 43daf0ffb1d34e31ad752da1340aeb40 </Configuration> Configure the bulider, as shown in:

Note that you must use the administrator privilege to start a program in some operating systems. Otherwise, it may be stuck in the browser window for adding custom parts.