Flex for mobile development

Is it possible to use Flex for developing RIAs for mobile
browsers?
From what I've read, Flex doesn't seem to be suitable for
creating applications on mobile phones. But I wanted to be sure
that's why raised this question here.

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This is my personal advice and humble request
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Hi,
I have prepared an application for Android in Adobe Flash Builder. In application there are prayers in Arabic as a list. In app , short prayers are displaying quickly, but long prayers are displaying after a long time. This is my problem.
I share my project file in addition.Can anybody help me, please?
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Hi relaxtraja,
thanks for your reply!
I knew that there are a lot of auto-complete scripts on the web. What I was hoping was, that Adobe provides an officially supported auto-complete component optimized for mobile as part of the SDK (like in the Android SDK as I pointed out), but that doesn't seem to be the case. It's sad, because it's an essential part of modern UIs in mobile applications.
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