flash vs flex for android development

Question

I've seen some videos using Flash and others using catalyst/Builder. I'm not sure which to start learning, I'm very interested though. I'm comfortable with flash (and have new 5.5 creative) but feel like builder/catalyst will eventually be more powerful.

what are the advantages and disadvantages of them (is there somewhere I can read up on this if it's too long of an answer?)

are there any good websites or books that really dig into the actual code from beginner to advanced? I don't even know where to look, the documentation is just very overwhelming. how would you advise even beginning? I don't want to get into bad habbits. i.e. learn in Flash then find out that I am limited by the program, or learn bad coding practices.

Answer 1

Short Answer: Flash CS is a designer tool to make animations/visual elements. Flash Builder is a development tool to create code to make it all work. They can be used together, or not at all.

Flex is a UI framework that runs on the Flash Player to create rich internet applications very quickly. It's a very developer oriented language but does have some styling/skinning involved.

Either way, you'll need Flash Builder if you are to create any kind of complicated application since the code editor in Flash CS is crap.