Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for Rich Internet Application Developers (Paperback)

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Thoroughly vetted by Adobe's AIR development team, Adobe AIR Cookbook addresses fundamentals, best practices, and topics that web developers and application designers inquire about most. The hands-on recipes in this cookbook help you solve a variety of tasks and scenarios you may encounter using Adobe AIR to build Rich Internet Applications for the desktop. It's an ideal way to learn the nuances of Adobe AIR, with practical solutions you can use right away, and detailed explanations of why and how they work. These recipes will help you: Build an AIR application with Flex, Flash, or HTML and Ajax Create a database and connect it to your application Put together native menus for PCs and Macs Work with the Service Monitor Framework Utilize the Adobe AIR Update Framework Create branded desktop experiences with custom chrome and custom application icons Distribute your AIR application with the Seamless Install Badge

And more. Adobe AIR Cookbook includes dozens of recipes from rising stars in the AIR development community-David Tucker, Rich Tretola, Marco Casario, and Koen De Weggheleire-along with the best solutions posted by visitors to the Adobe AIR Cookbook community website hosted by Adobe and O'Reilly (www.adobe.com/go/air_cookbook). If you're ready to expand your skill set with Adobe AIR, this is the book you've been waiting for.

About the Author

Marco is one of the most dynamic developers and consultants in the Adobe world.
He has been passionate about informatics since he was little more than a child and used to program games in Basic for Commodore 64 before dedicating himself, while still very young, to innovative projects for the web using Flash and Director (as far back as versions 3 and 5.)
In 2001, he began to collaborate with Macromedia Italia. Since that year he has produced and headed a long series of presentations, conferences and articles, which you can find listed in detail in his blog entitled "hands on Adobe world" (casario.blogs.com, ) which is currently receiving several thousands of unique visitors every day.
In 2005, Marco founded Comtaste (www.comtaste.com, ) a company dedicated to exploring new frontiers in Rich Internet Applications and the convergence between the web and the world of mobile devices&emdash;MobyMobile (www.mobymobile.com) and YouThru (www.youthru.com) are representative of their recent work.
Another example of Marco's achievements is that he is founder of the biggest worldwide Flash Lite User Group (groups.yahoo.com/group/FlashLite/) and of www.augitaly.com, a reference point for the Italian community of Adobe users, in which he carries out the role of Channel Manager for the section dedicated to Flex (www.augitaly.com/flexgala.)
Marco is currently busy working on the development (in Flex) of a very ambitious project concerning bank counters at European level, and in various consulting and Flex and Flash Media Server training activities for the realisation of Rich Internet Applications on behalf of buyers of the calibre of Capgemini, Engineering, IBM partners, and Adobe Systems Software Ireland Ltd

Koen De Weggheleireis a faculty member of the Technical University of West-Flanders (HOWEST), department PIH-Multimedia and Communication Technology (MCT) in Belgium, where he teaches Flash Platform Solutions (Flash, Flex, AIR) with a smile. As the Adobe User Group Manager for Belgium (www.adobeusergroup.be), Koen is heavily addicted to the community and inspires the community by his blog (www.newmovieclip.com) and by speaking at national and international industry events. Koen also coordinates the yearly Belgian multimedia conference, Multi-Mania (www.multi-mania.be), where 800 people come together to learn from industry experts and to share knowledge.

When he has time, you can find Koen doing freelance Flash platform consultancy on advanced award-winning Rich Internet Applications.

Sometimes it happens that Koen is not talking ActionScript. Then you can find him producing music, collecting Adobe gadgets, eating pizza, or renovating his 100-year-old house.

Product Details

• Paperback: 418 pages
• Publisher: Adobe Developer Library; 1 edition (November 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0596522509
• ISBN-13: 978-0596522506
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #274,148 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Practice and Prepare, November 30, 2008

By	Brett Merkey (Palm Harbor, FL United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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The competition of application development frameworks is the bane of those of us who have to figure out how to explain inherent potentials to managers tasked with getting new apps out the door. No one knows the future -- but Adobe's Integrated Runtime (AIR) is certainly on everyone's list as a strong contender.

This book has a cookbook format which means it is full of examples that focus on the scenarios that will most likely provoke head-scratching and Googling by programmers tackling basic and not so basic tasks in AIR development. This book is for intermediate developers who already have a good working knowledge of the Flex tool and ActionScript or JavaScript.

Chapters 1-2 impart basic dev environment setup tips.
Chapters 3-15 provide solutions for file system, network, and database scenarios.
Chapters 16-17 focus on distribution and install issues.

There is also a bonus chapter which is online at the O'Reilly publisher site. This bonus chapter does a bit of AIR mashup to integrate some of the individual solutions found in the book.

This is a solid book for keeping up with the times.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Walks through the basics to explaining all aspects of AIR, June 12, 2009

By	J. McClary (Chesapeake, VA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a good starter book on Adobe AIR. It starts at the VERY beginning, explaining every point in the description files and what are their options. It builds precept upon precept. Then it shows you examples of completed code - PLUS the code can be downloaded from their website so you don't have to type it in yourself. Very nice.

I liked the "state the problem, then show the solution" format of the book. It keeps the explanations uncluttered by extraneous details and since I haven't coded since 1986, that's exactly what I needed.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Stuff... well don, May 21, 2009

By	E. N. Petwise Inc. "Da Ma" (Cleerwater) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I really enjoyed this book. I found i well layed out and easy to read. Any body ever here of http://magentoconsulting.com/ ... Seem like and open source Magento Consulting firm.