Make Flex 4 web application load faster

Question

I made a Flex 4 web application. Upon testing locally, I already got satisfied at how it looks like. However, the swf's file size grew to around 6mb in size so when I uploaded it to my website and viewed it, it takes forever to load on a computer with quite slow internet connection. So my question is, how do I make it load faster? Should I:

• seperate it into chunks? If so how do I do it.
• not put the embedded images inside the SWF but instead, store it outside in a folder? If so, how do I make it load on the background while the user is interacting with the primarily loaded parts of the web app?

Please do help me?

Answer 1

Besides splitting up your application into Modules and/or sub-applications, try to use RSLs where possible. Especially the RSLs of the Flex framework.

Here's documentation on how to do this: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=rsl_09.html

Answer 2

You should separate your application into modules. Another alternative is to split it into sub-applications.