This course is designed to equip experienced Adobe® Flex™ developers with the skills needed to develop robust desktop applications using Adobe AIR™. Students learn to use this cross-operating system runtime to connect the desktop to the web to seamless deploy across operating systems. Flex developers will learn to create rich applications for deployment on the desktop. Learn how to interact with the windowing API and file system, drag and drop to the desktop, handle data persistence, and more. We'll also discuss how to easily package and distribute AIR applications.
Introducing the course
Introducing Mastery Learning
Understanding the course format
Reviewing the course prerequisites
Reviewing the course outline
Introducing Adobe AIR
Exploring the Adobe AIR development toolset
Understanding the runtime application
Understanding the Adobe AIR SDK
Looking at Adobe Flex Builder™ 3
Reviewing the Adobe AIR tools for Flex Builder 3
Creating Adobe AIR projects
Exporting Adobe AIR applications
Walkthrough: Review the course application
Getting started with Adobe AIR
Creating your first Adobe AIR application
Creating an Adobe AIR project
Creating a main application
Compiling an Adobe AIR application
Running an Adobe AIR application
Walkthrough: Create an Adobe AIR application
Packaging and deploying applications
Exporting an application
Code-signing an application
Selecting application content
Installing an application
Walkthrough: Export and install application
Learning Adobe AIR fundamentals
Understanding the application container
Exploring the Adobe AIR file format
Understanding the application descriptor
Understanding the application display attributes
Walkthrough: Examine the Adobe AIR package and change its descriptor
Getting help and other resources
Creating native windows
Creating a window
Using the Window class
Adding content to a window
Walkthrough: Create, open, and close a native window
Modifying the window display
Changing the window type
Changing the window chrome
Setting window transparency
Going full screen
Walkthrough: Control chrome, transparency, and full screen
Manipulating windows
Getting an instance of the window
Resizing a window
Moving a window
Walkthrough: Maximize, minimize, restore, and move a window
Using window events
Identifying the window events
Walkthrough: Control window behavior through event listeners
Using the file system
Using the File class
Using the File class
Creating directories
Walkthrough: Creating directories and files
Moving and copying file system objects
Deleting file system objects
Walkthrough: Academy Class Copy, move, and delete file objects
Using the Flex 3 Adobe AIR components
Reviewing the component types
Walkthrough: Use file browsing and display components
Using file streams
Creating directories
Reading and writing files
Walkthrough: Read and write to a text file
Working with file formats
Using binary and encoded characters
Walkthrough: Read, modify, and write a binary file to the desktop
Connecting applications
Communicating between applications
Using LocalConnection
Walkthrough: Connect to another Adobe AIR application
Communicating with the browser
Using the URLRequest class
Walkthrough: Interact with a remote service via URL
Using HTML content
Loading HTML content
Walkthrough: Load HTML into an Adobe AIR application
Getting occasionally connected
Monitoring services
Detecting HTTP connectivity
Detecting Socket connectivity
Walkthrough: Add network detection
Using the clipboard
Moving data with copy and paste
Using the clipboard
Getting data from the clipboard
Writing data to the clipboard
Walkthrough: Moving data with copy and paste
Using drag and drop
Exploring the drag-and-drop stages
Dragging with the clipboard
Walkthrough: Drag an image into the application
Persisting application data
Using embedded SQL databases
Understanding the database file
Opening a database
Creating a database
Walkthrough: Create a new database
Using SQL statements Academy Class
Managing the database
Managing the data
Using best practices with embedded databases
Walkthrough: Update database and records
Working with data types
Using Date data
Using XML data
Using BLOB data
Walkthrough: Use date/time and BLOB data
Understanding Adobe AIR security
Considering Adobe AIR security
Learning about security sandboxes
Understanding the domain considerations
Detecting Adobe AIR capabilities
Understanding the security best practices
Walkthrough: Add capability detection
Customizing application deployment
Setting the application's desktop icon
Using application icons
Walkthrough: Add icon to application
Setting system tray notifications
Using the shell
Using the system tray
Walkthrough: Add a system tray icon
Customizing application chrome
Understanding application chrome
Walkthrough: Change application chrome
Creating a seamless installer
Adding the installer
Demo: Review the badging process
Summary and review
Flex 2: Developing Rich Client Applications or Flex MasterClass course, or equivalent experience developing Flex applications
This course is designed for object-oriented developers who want to bring the power of Rich Internet Applications to their web applications.
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
Get started with Adobe AIR
Creating native windows
Use the file system
Connect applications
Use the clipboard
Persisting application data
Understand Adobe AIR security
Customise application deployment
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