AIR for Javascript Developers Pocket Guide

✍ Scribed by Mike Chambers, Daniel Dura, Kevin Hoyt, Dragos Georgita

• Publisher: Adobe Developer Library
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 199
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

If you're already familiar with HTML and JavaScript and would want to develop desktop applications using Adobe AIR then this is the right book for YOU.In a nutshell, there are several approaches to developing AIR applications: 1. Using HTML and JavaScript 2. Using Flex 3. Using FlashObviously, this book focuses mainly on the first item. I'm coming from Java Web Development background and I have just started with Flex. I also got interested in Adobe AIR after seeing some examples on the Internet. But since I'm already developing Flex applications for the web, I prefer developing AIR applications using Flex also (so it will be easier to port the application from web to desktop and vice versa).Even so, I find the book very informative. Most especially the cookbook section where it shows you how to connect to the embedded database, read/write files and so on. Given that this book is a Pocket Guide, I was quickly up to speed with the capabilities of Adobe AIR in a couple of hours.