FlashBuilder: Android/Flex Components+Full Screen Graphic possible?

I'm new to flash and interested in multi-platform graphical game development.
I've installed the Flash Builder Burrito test version and want to develop
a full screen Android graphical game with Android-Flex components
(like buttons etc.).
a)
Is it possible to have a full graphical screen and then overlay
Android-Flex components (buttons etc.) or ist only possible
to integrate a graphical screen within a Flex components app
so that Android/Flex components have to been outside the screen
and so no full graphical screen overlayed with Android/Flex
components is possible?
b)
If full graphical screen + Android/Flex components is possible:
which project type have I to choose:
File->New->Flex Project or File->New->ActionScript Mobile Project?
c)
Are the components I can choose to design my Flash-Android project
Android-like Flex components or are they real Android components?

a) yes you can
b) Flex Mobile Project
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