April 2008
Beginner
204 pages
3h 48m
English
book
Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers Pocket Guide
by Mike Chambers, Daniel Dura, Kevin Hoyt, Dragos Georgita
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Preface
This book provides a quick introduction to developing applications for Adobe AIR. Adobe AIR is a new cross-platform desktop application runtime created by Adobe. Although Adobe AIR allows both Flash- and HTML-based application development, this book focuses on building applications using HTML and JavaScript.
The book gives an overview of Adobe AIR, shows how to set up your development environment, and discusses new Adobe AIR functionality and APIs. Once you have finished reading this book, you should have a good understanding of what Adobe AIR is as well as how to build HTML and JavaScript applications for it.
Adobe AIR Runtime Naming Conventions
Adobe AIR allows developers to leverage a number of web technologies to deploy web applications to the desktop. Indeed, there are so many technologies that it can be difficult to keep track of them all. Table 1 lists the terms used in the book, and defines each one.
Table 1. AIR runtime naming conventions
|
Name |
Meaning |
|
Adobe AIR |
The cross-platform desktop runtime that enables the running of Adobe AIR applications. |
|
Adobe AIR application |
An application built with Flash, HTML, and/or PDF that runs on top of Adobe AIR. |
|
Adobe Flash |
Any content contained within a SWF 9 file format that runs in the Adobe Flash Player or Adobe AIR. |
|
ActionScript |
The ECMAScript-based programming language used to program Flash content. Unless otherwise noted, all references to ActionScript in this book refer to ActionScript 3. |
|
HTML |
Standard web-based ... |
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