I vote that we make the Flex Search Flickr application a sort of right of passage for developers new to Flex. It was Sho Kuwamoto himself who started the whole thing with his video tutorial back in the Flex 2 alpha days. In fact, that was the first Flex app I ever saw. Thanks Sho.

Unfortunately enough changed between when he recorded the video in Flex 2.0 alpha and the final Flex 2.0 that it broke his wonderful example. Still, it’s worth watching the video because the general code flow still applies. It’s just the actual code specifics that needs a bit of tweaking.

You can see my Flex Flickr app here and the view source works from the right-click or you can download everything here. You will need to get your own API_KEY from Flickr to use my example.

Since the Search Flickr app requires using data binding, states, the ArrayCollection, HTTPService, events, ResultEvent and ItemRendering I, polyGeek, do hereby decree that all who successfully create and understand their own Search Flickr application may thereafter refer to themselves as novice Flex developers, a grade up from newbie.

I’m not sure what application will qualify for graduating from novice to experienced Flex developer. I haven’t gotten there yet. :-)