AIR: Building Desktop Applications with AJAX

AIRJ is a two day course designed to equip web developers who have experience with AJAX technologies with the skills needed to develop robust desktop applications using the Adobe Integrated Runtime. This course focuses on the toolset available to HTML and Javascript developers.

Prerequisite

Experience building HTML web applications with CSS and custom-written Javascript. Familiarity with AJAX (asynchronous Javascript and XML) techniques will enhance your learning the class.

Next steps

All Flex courses

Course outline

Introducing the course Introducing Mastery Learning Understanding the course format Reviewing the course prerequisites Reviewing the course outline Introducing the Adobe Integrated Runtime Exploring the AIR development Toolset Understanding the AIR SDK Looking at Dreamweaver Reviewing the AIR tools for Dreamweaver Creating AIR Sites Exporting AIR Applications Walkthrough: Review the course application Getting started with AIR Creating your first AIR application Creating an AIR project Walkthrough: Create your first AIR application Creating an AIR application in Dreamweaver Creating a Site Creating a new AIR application in Dreamweaver Launching Your AIR application in Dreamweaver Walkthrough: Create an AIR application with Dreamweaver Packaging and deploying applications Using the Air Application Settings Wizard Selecting application content Code-signing an application Exporting an application Installing an application Walkthrough: Export and install application Understanding the contents of the .air file Exploring the AIR file format Understanding the application descriptor Understanding the application display attributes Walkthrough: Examine the AIR package Learning AIR Fundamentals Understanding the application container Functionality of AIR Accessing AIR Features from Javascript Getting Debugging Information Extending the Runtime with ActionScript Walkthrough: Create an AIR application with Javascript Getting help and other resources Using the File System Using the File class Introducing the file class Accessing common directories Allowing user to specify files or directories Walkthrough: Browsing the file system with the File class Interacting with the file system Referencing a file or directory Creating directories Moving and copying file system objects Removing file system objects Walkthrough: Copy, move and delete file objects Using file streams Reading and Writing Files Walkthrough: Read and write a file Working with files asynchronously Compare synchronous and asynchronous methods Walkthrough: Read a file asynchronously Creating Native Windows Exploring the types of windows Customizing properties of the window Walkthrough using window.open() Using the NativeWindow class Adding content to a window Walkthrough: Create a native window Manipulating windows Resizing a window Moving a window Walkthrough: Resize and move a window Using window events Using addEventListener() Identifying the window events

Walkthrough: Listen for window event

Lab 1

Persisting Application Data Using an embedded SQL databases Understanding the database file Opening a database Creating a database Walkthrough: Create a new database Using SQL statements Managing the database Managing the data Using best practices with embedded databases Walkthrough: Update database and records Working with data types Using Date data type Using XML data type Using BLOB data type Walkthrough: Use date/time data 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 Walkthrough: Moving data with copy and paste Using drag-and-drop Exploring the drag and drop stages Dragging with the clipboard Walkthrough: Drag an image into the application Connecting Applications Communicating between applications Using LocalConnection Walkthrough: Connect to another AIR application Detecing network availability Monitoring network state changes Detecting HTTP connectivity Detecting Socket connectivity Walkthrough: Using network detection Connecting to web applications using URLRequest Requesting a URL via HTTP Using the URLRequest class Using the URLVariables class Using the URLoader class

Walkthrough: Using the URLRequest Object

Understanding AIR Security

Considering AIR security Learning about security sandboxes Understanding the domain considerations Understanding the need for Security Sandboxes Implementing Security Sandboxes Implementing the sandbox bridge Walkthrough: Create a security sandbox Understanding application updates Walkthrough: Update an application Customizing Application Deployment Setting the application's desktop icon Using application icons Walkthrough: Add icon to application Using system tray icons Walkthrough: Adding a system tray icon Summary and Review

Lab 2