Beginning Adobe AIR

Rich Tretola is the Rich Applications Technical Lead at Herff Jones, Inc. He is an award-winning Flex developer and was the lead author of Professional Flex 2 (ISBN 978-0-470-10267-1) from Wrox. He entered the field of Web development in the late 1990s and has been building applications ever since. Other than Flex, he builds applications using ColdFusion, Flash, and Java (where he is a Sun-certified programmer). Rich is highly regarded within the Flex community as an expert in RIA and is also an Adobe Community Expert. He runs a popular Flex and AIR blog at http://blog.everythingFlex.com, and is the community manager for http://www.InsideRIA.com.

Acknowledgments. Foreword. Introduction. Part I: Getting Started. Chapter 1: Introducing AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime). Chapter 2: Rich Internet/Desktop Applications. Chapter 3: The Programming Languages. Chapter 4: The AIR Development Tools. Chapter 5: Building an Application. Chapter 6: Packaging the AIR. Part II: Adding Data. Chapter 7: Working with Remote Data. Part III: AIR APIs. Chapter 8: Accessing the File System. Chapter 9: The Windowing API. Chapter 10: Interacting with the O.S. Chapter 11: The SQLite Database. Chapter 12: Communication between AIR and the Operating System. Chapter 13: Application Status. Part IV: The AIR Components. Chapter 14: The File System Components. Chapter 15: The HTML Component. Appendix A: Taking a Flex App to the Desktop. Appendix B: Solutions for Exercises. Index.