Book description
With the introduction of Adobe AIR, Flex developers have more capability than ever before. Now you can build dynamic applications that combine the rich experience of a traditional desktop application with the power of the Internet. Leveraging your existing knowledge of Adobe Flex and Flash, Breaking out of the Web Browser with Adobe AIR will help you build well-architected desktop applications. Flex and Flash experts Jeff Tapper and Michael Labriola will teach you techniques to create truly custom interfaces by leading you through exercises with a real world time-tracking application. The book’s abundance of examples will help you become adept at interacting with the end user’s underlying operating system and teach you the most important concepts for using AIR.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- Bios
- Foreword
- The Genesis of AIR
- 1. Building Your First AIR Application
- 2. Working with the Time Tracker Application
- 3. Interacting with the Clipboard
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4. Implementing Drag and Drop Between the OS and AIR
- Drag and Drop in an Application (DragManager Class)
- Drag and Drop Between the OS and the Application (NativeDragManager)
- Drag and Drop Items into an AIR Application from the OS
- Drag Items into the dpTimeTracker Application
- Drag Items from an AIR Application to the OS
- Drag Items into the OS
- Next Steps
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5. Reading and Writing to a SQLite Database
- Introducing SQLite
- Accessing SQLite from AIR
- Optimizing Database Performance
- Understanding Database Access in the dpTimeTracker Application
- Next Steps
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6. Interacting with the File System
- Understanding File Classes
- Accessing Files Synchronously or Asynchronously
- Accessing File System Information
- Using Error Handling
- Working with Directories
- Exploring the File Class Further
- Looking at the dpTimeTracker Example
- Next Steps
- 7. Customizing the Look and Feel of an Application
- 8. Working with the Presence API
- 9. Using HTML Content in a Flex/AIR Application
- 10. Understanding the Need for Remote Data
- 11. Communicating with Adobe BlazeDS
- 12. Testing AIR Applications with Fluint
- 13. Deploying AIR Applications
- 14. Understanding AIR Security
- A. Getting Started with AIR
- B. Considerations for Working with AIR 1.1
Product information
- Title: Breaking Out of the Web Browser with Adobe AIR
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2008
- Publisher(s): New Riders
- ISBN: 9780321580771
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