Sams Teach Yourself Adobe® AIR™ Programming in 24 Hours

Hour 13 File This API with AIR

In this hour, you’ll learn

    • The AIR File API

    • The File class and other classes

    • Working with Directories

    • Reading and Writing Files

Introduction to the AIR File API

In this hour you will look at the File application programming interface (API) for building file- and directory-accessing AIR applications. You will meet 15 classes, all at least briefly, during this hour. You use these classes to access the file system of the end user’s PC. Using these classes, you can access and manage directories and files, create directories and files, and write data to files.

Being able to create, edit, and manipulate files on an end user’s local PC is a benefit that web developers have ...