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My MAX Session - Introduction to Adobe AIR
| By Rich Tretola | July 16, 2008 |  Print This Post
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When creating your schedule for MAX 2008 in San Francisco, please be sure to select my session titled Introduction to Adobe AIR: Building Your First Application. It will be on Tuesday November 18 at 1:30pm. Here is a brief outline of what you can expect, I will post a copy of the application that we will be building together during this session as soon as it is ready:
Description
This session will provide a quick overview of the tools needed to build an Adobe AIR application. It will then move on to a walk-through of how to build a Flex based AIR application. As you build this application, you will learn how to take advantage of some of the additional capabilities of AIR that are not available within web-based Flex applications.
Audience Assumptions
You have a basic understanding of Adobe Flex or ActionScript 3
You would like to leverage the AIR APIs to build applications for the desktop
Topics
Overview of AIR and development tools
Demonstration of finished application
Application creation walk through
URLMonitor class
• basic functionality demonstration of monitoring an URL
File class
• creating a new database file within the applicationStorageDirectory
Implementing SQLite
• using the SQLite API to save and update data to local database file
Using the Window API
• adding an Add/Edit window to add or edit the URLs being monitored
Using the HTML Control
• using the HTML control for monitored URL previews
Start application on login
• NativeApplication.nativeApplication.startAtLogin = true
Creating Icon Notifications
• using the bounce() method on Mac
• creating a custom SystemTray Icon alert for Windows
Adding Icon menus
Styling your Application
Updating application descriptor file
• application size
• application icons
• visible
Packaging and Distribution
• packaging application to .air file
• distribution options (badge install, etc)
Topics: Adobe AIR, Flex 3 (Moxie), Flex Tools, MAX 2008 |
August 14th, 2008 at 7:31 am
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