AIR 1.5: Building Desktop Applications with Flex 3

Introducing the Course

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

Introducing the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)

• Exploring the AIR development toolset
• Understanding the runtime application
• Understanding Adobe AIR 1.5
• Understanding the Adobe AIR SDK
• Looking at Flex Builder 3
• Reviewing the Adobe AIR tools for Flex Builder 3
• Creating AIR projects
• Exporting AIR applications

Getting started with AIR

• Creating your first AIR application
• Creating an AIR project
• Creating a main application
• Compiling an AIR application
• Packaging and deploying applications
• Exporting a release
• Code-signing an application
• Selecting application contents
• Installing an application
• Uninstalling an AIR application
• Understanding AIR fundamentals
• Introducing the AIR file format
• Introducing the application descriptor
• Getting help and other resources
• Help inside Flex Builder
• Documentation
• AIR URLs

Creating native windows

• Creating windows
• Defining a window with MXML
• Instantiating an MXML window with ActionScript
• Opening and closing window components
• Modifying the window display
• Changing the window chrome
• Changing the window type
• Setting window transparency
• Controlling display of default Flex chrome
• Using full screen display
• Manipulating windows
• Referring to a window object
• Manipulating a window
• Controlling the main application appearance
• Configuring initial appearance and behavior
• Understanding component display order
• Controlling window behavior using window events
• Handling window events

Using the file system

• Using the File class
• Accessing common directories
• Referencing a file or directory
• Moving and copying file system objects
• Enabling visual file system interaction
• Allowing user to specify files or directories
• Introducing the Flex 3 file browsing components
• Removing files from the file system
• Determining the File object type
• Recycling or deleting file system objects
• Using file streams
• Reading and writing files
• Working with binary data
• Using the ByteArray class
• Reading binary data
• Writing binary data

Connecting applications

• Communicating between applications
• Using the LocalConnection class
• Connecting to web applications using URL Requests over HTTP
• Requesting a URL via HTTP
• Using the URLRequest class
• Using the URLVariables class
• Using the URLLoader class
• Using the Base64Encoder class
• Displaying HTML content
• Understanding the HTMLLoader class
• Using the component
• Detecting network availability
• Monitoring network state changes
• Detecting HTTP resource availability
• Detecting Socket connectivity

Using the clipboard

• Moving data with copy and paste
• Understanding the Clipboard
• Using the generalClipboard
• Getting data from the clipboard
• Writing data to the clipboard
• Using drag and drop
• Exploring the drag and drop stages
• Understanding how dragged data is transferred

Persisting application data

• Using an embedded SQL database
• Understanding the database file
• Opening a database
• Creating a database
• Using SQL statements
• Managing the database
• Managing the data
• Using best practices with local databases
• Working with SQL data types
• Using Date data
• Using XML data
• Using BLOB data
• Using query parameters
• Saving and retrieving binary image data

Understanding AIR security

• Considering AIR security
• Introducing AIR security
• Introducing security sandboxes
• Introducing AIR security best practices
• Detecting AIR capabilities
• Using the Capabilities object
• Using encrypted data storage
• Understanding AIR application updating
• Using the Updater class
• Determining current version at runtime
• Encrypting local database files
• Implementing database encryption

Customizing Deployment

• Setting the application’s desktop icon
• Using application icons
• Setting system tray icon
• Addressing the nativeApplication
• Using the system tray

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