AIR for Javascript Developers Pocket Guide

By Daniel DuraMike ChambersDragos Georgita, et al.

This book is the official guide to Adobe ? AIR[TM], written by members of the AIR team. With Adobe AIR, web developers can use technologies like HTML and JavaScript to build and deploy web... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0596518374
• ISBN13: 9780596518370
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Adobe Developer Library
• Length: 185 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.3" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Use Your HTML/JavaScript Skills to Develop AIR Applications

If you're already familiar with HTML and JavaScript and would want to develop desktop applications using Adobe AIR then this is the right book for YOU. In a nutshell, there are several approaches to developing AIR applications: 1. Using HTML and JavaScript 2. Using Flex 3. Using Flash Obviously, this book focuses mainly on the first item. I'm coming from Java Web Development background and I have just started with Flex. I also got interested in Adobe AIR after seeing some examples on the Internet. But since I'm already developing Flex applications for the web, I prefer developing AIR applications using Flex also (so it will be easier to port the application from web to desktop and vice versa). Even so, I find the book very informative. Most especially the cookbook section where it shows you how to connect to the embedded database, read/write files and so on. Given that this book is a Pocket Guide, I was quickly up to speed with the capabilities of Adobe AIR in a couple of hours.