Adobe Air Bible

Adobe Air Bible Book Description

Adobe AIR is a revolutionary technology that blurs the line between the desktop and the web. The AIR Bible will get developers up and running building simple AIR application, then take them through all aspects of the new API. The authors have a wealth of experience in building Rich Internet Applications using Flex, Flash, HTML, and Ajax. They will bring their experience to the table walking the reader through application programming topics and demystifying the techniques developers use to build the kind of complex application that readers are sure to want to build with this exciting new technology. Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Introduction to AIR Chapter 1: Clearing the AIR Chapter 2: Setting Up Your Development Environment Chapter 3: Building Your First AIR Application Part II: Programming for AIR Essentials Chapter 4: Crash Course in AIR Programming Chapter 5: Development Essentials Chapter 6: Debugging and Profiling Part III: AIR API Chapter 7: Communicating with the Local Machine Chapter 8: Using the Filesystem Chapter 9: Using the Clipboard. Chapter 10: Dragging and Dropping Chapter 11: SQLite Databases Chapter 12: Using Native Operating System Windows Chapter 13: HTML Content Part IV: Building an Application Chapter 14: Preparing to Build a Large-Scale Application Chapter 15: Building a Reusable Config Class Chapter 16: Application Design Best Practices Chapter 17: SDK Development Chapter 18: Sample Application: LogReader Chapter 19: Polishing a Finished Application Part V: Testing and Deploying Chapter 20: Deployment Workflow Chapter 21: Leveraging Ant to Automate the Build Process Chapter 22: Installation and Distribution Index Peter Elst is a certified Flash instructor, Adobe Community Expert, and User Group Manager for the MMUG Belgium. Benjamin Gorton has been developing software for the desktop and the web for over 10 years. He currently works as a Senior Software Developer for Schematic. Ryan Taylor is an award-winning artist and programmer specializing in object-oriented Flash development and static/motion design. Jeff Yamada is currently a Software Developer for Schematic where he is part of the Multimedia Platforms Group in LA. Jeff specializes in Object Oriented Programming and experimental user interface design. This is a comprehensive analysis of the AIR framework and how to leverage it from Flex, Flash, HTML, and Ajax. Once that foundation is established, the second part of this book guides developers to start designing large scale applications, to give them the knowledge to create AIR applications that really work.

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