Flex 4.6 Mobile Forms

There doesn't seem to be much discussion about the lack of mobile form support in a Flex 4.6 mobile apps - does anyone have any suggestions as to where is the best place to get started on a multi-page/view form running?
As far as I can tell from the AS3 documentation - <s:Form> can run on a mobile device - IF you develop your own mobile skin.
I would have thought there would be a huge outcry over lack of mobile form support - but as far as I can tell through much googling and research offical Adobe Evangalist blogs - no one seems to need or want mobile forms?
Am I alone here? Once again, any suggestions on developing multi-view spanning forms??

You don't have access to FORMS, but you can build your own form-like layouts. I've been laying them out myself. Using HGroups nested inside VGroups etc ... It takes more time, but on the mobile devices, you want to pay more attention to UI anyway.

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