AIR: Building Desktop Applications with Flex 3 - 2 days, € 1.095
Description
This course is designed to equip experienced Adobe® Flex™ developers with the skills needed to begin developing robust desktop applications using Adobe AIR™.
Prerequisite
Flex 3: Developing Rich Client Applications course, or equivalent experience developing Flex applications
Next steps
All Flex courses
Course outline
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: 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
LAB Day 1 (optional): Building an AIR application, part one
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
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
Using Encrypted Local Storage
Walkthrough: Using encrypted local storage
Understanding AIR application updating
Using the Updater class
Determining current version at runtime
Walkthrough: Preventing downgrade attacks while updating an AIR application
Customizing application deployment
Setting the application's desktop icon
Using application icons
Walkthrough: Add icon to application
Setting system tray notifications
Using the shell
Walkthrough: Add a system tray icon
Customizing application chrome
Understanding application chrome
Walkthrough: Change application chrome
LAB Day 2 (optional): Building an AIR application, part two
