Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook
by Rich Tretola, David Tucker, Marco Casario, Koen DeWeggheleire, Koen De Weggheleire
Preface
AIR is a powerful application runtime that lets developers build cross-platform desktop applications in multiple development environments: Flex, Flash, and JavaScript. AIR applications have all the features you would expect from a web application, but in addition, they provide functionality you would expect from a desktop application, including file system access, network monitoring, and an embedded database.
The Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook exists to help you solve problems. It is not here to explain everything about AIR but rather to be a guide and reference during your AIR development. Like every developer, you will inevitably encounter roadblocks during development, and this book will help you get over the hump.
The challenge in writing this book was to adequately discuss as much of the AIR APIs as possible for each of the three development environments: Flash, Flex, and JavaScript. Because of this, we have chosen to tackle specific areas of AIR development that we think are useful for developers. This book is meant to provide answers for beginning, intermediate, and advanced AIR developers.
AIR 1.5
This book introduces the newest version of the runtime, AIR 1.5. This is the fourth production release of AIR. This new version adds some great tools to the developer’s toolset. In addition to many bug fixes, this version includes several new features:
Support for Flash Player 10: The biggest addition to AIR 1.5 is the support for the new functionality in Flash Player 10 including 3D ...