Adobe AIR Training: Building Desktop Applications with Flex 3

Building Desktop Applications with Flex (AIRF)    Public Beta 3 Release

Price: $995.00
GSA Price: $Coming soon

AIR projects are created in Flex Builder 3, and appear as Flex projects. They simply compile differently. This 2 day course is presented through a combination of lectures, demonstrations, walkthroughs, and labs. The course has been designed assuming that you already understand how to develop applications using Adobe Flex.  

Introducing the course

• Introducing Mastery Learning
• Understanding the course format
• Reviewing the course prerequisites
• Reviewing the course outline

Introducing Adobe Integrated Runtime

• Exploring the AIR Development Toolset 

      • Understanding the runtime application 
      • Understanding the AIR SDK
      • Looking at Flex Builder 3

• Creating AIR Projects
• Exporting AIR Applications

Getting Started with AIR

• Creating an AIR project
• Creating a main application
• Compiling an AIR application
• Running an AIR application

• Packaging and deploying applications

• Exporting an application
• Code-signing an application
• Selecting application content
• Installing an application

• Understanding the application container
• Exploring the AIR file format 
• Understanding the application descriptor
• Understanding the application display attributes

Creating Native Windows

• Using the Window class
• Adding content to a window 

• Changing the window type
• Changing the window chrome
• Setting window transparency
• Going full screen

• Manipulating windows

• Getting an instance of the window
• Resizing a window
• Moving a window

• Using window events

• Identifying the window events

Using the File System

• Using the File class

• Using the File class
• Creating directories
• Moving and copying file system objects
• Deleting file system objects

• Using the Flex 3 AIR components

• Reviewing the component types

• Using file streams

• Creating directories
• Reading and writing files

• Working with file formats

• Using binary and encoded characters

Connecting Applications

• Communicating between applications

• Using LocalConnection

• Communicating with the browser

• Using the URLRequest class

• Using HTML content

• Loading HTML content

• Getting occasionally connected

• Monitoring services
• Detecting HTTP connectivity
• Detecting Socket connectivity

Using the clipboard

• Moving data with copy and paste

• Using the clipboard
• Getting data from the clipboard
• Writing data to the clipboard

• Using drag-and-drop

• Exploring the drag and drop stages
• Dragging with the clipboard

Persisting Application Data

• Using an embedded SQL databases

• Understanding the database file
• Opening a database
• Creating a database

• Using SQL statements

• Managing the database
• Managing the data
• Using best practices with embedded databases

• Working with data types

• Using Date data
• Using XML data
• Using BLOB data

Understanding AIR Security

• Considering AIR security

• Learning about security sandboxes
• Understanding the domain considerations
• Detecting AIR capabilities
• Understanding the security best practices

Customizing Application Deployment

• Setting the application's desktop icon

• Using application icons

• Setting system tray notifications

• Using the shell
• Using the system tray

• Customizing application chrome

• Understanding application chrome

• Creating a seamless installer

• Adding the installer