ADBBFX4 – AIR 2.0 Building Beyond the Browser with Adobe Flex 4

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  • Code: ADBBFX4
  • Duration: Days 3
  • Price per delegate: £695.00 +VAT

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Course Description

This training course provides a comprehensive introduction to the Adobe Integration Runtime 2.0 for Adobe Flex 4 developers. It includes hands-on exercises with supporting content and files, and comprehensive review exercises.

Target Student: Software developers who have good experience developing with Adobe Flex 4.

Course Content
Introducing the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)
  • Exploring the AIR development toolset
  • Understanding the runtime application
  • Understanding Adobe AIR 2.0
  • Understanding the Adobe AIR SDK
  • Looking at Flash Builder 4
  • Reviewing the Adobe AIR tools for Flash Builder 4
  • Creating AIR projects
  • Exporting AIR applications
Getting started with AIR
  • Creating your first AIR application
  • Creating an AIR project
  • Creating a main application
  • Building an AIR application
  • Packaging and deploying applications
  • Exporting a release
  • Code-signing an application
  • Selecting application contents
  • Installing and uninstalling an AIR application
  • Understanding AIR fundamentals
  • Introducing the AIR file format
  • Introducing the application descriptor
  • Getting help and other resources
  • Help inside Flash Builder
  • AIR 2.0 URLs
Using the file system
  • Using the File class
  • Accessing common directories
  • Referencing a file or directory
  • Moving and copying file system objects
  • Enabling visual file system interaction
  • Allowing user to specify files or directories
  • Introducing the file browsing components
  • Removing files from the file system
  • Determining the File object type
  • Recycling or deleting file system objects
  • Launching files in their default application
  • Loading and launching files
Advanced file system techniques
  • Using file streams
  • Reading and writing files
  • Working with binary data
  • Using the ByteArray class
  • Working with mass storage devices
  • Reading and writing from attached devices
  • Displaying, copying, and moving Files on a storage device
Using the clipboard
  • Moving data with copy and paste
  • Understanding the Clipboard
  • Using the generalClipboard
  • Writing data to the clipboard
  • Getting data from the clipboard
  • Using drag and drop
  • Introducing the drag and drop stages
  • Deciding between the Flex and AIR APIs for drag and drop
Persisting application data
  • Using an embedded SQL database
  • Understanding the database file
  • Opening a database
  • Creating a database
  • Using SQL statements
  • Creating and executing a SQL statement
  • Handling returned data
  • Storing and loading complex data
  • Base types stored by SQLite
  • Column affinities supported by AIR
  • Storing and retrieving binary image data
Creating native windows
  • Creating windows
  • Defining a window with MXML
  • Instantiating an MXML window with ActionScript
  • Opening and closing window components
  • Modifying the window display
  • Changing the window chrome
  • Changing the window type
  • Using full screen display
  • Manipulating windows
  • Referring to a window object
  • Manipulating a window
  • Handling window events
Connecting applications
  • Launching and interacting with native operating system processes
  • Launching a native process from AIR
  • Communicating between applications
  • Using the LocalConnection class
  • Connecting to web applications using URL Requests over HTTP
  • Requesting a URL via HTTP
  • Using the URLRequest class
  • Using the URLVariables class
  • Using the URLLoader class
  • Using the Base64Encoder class
  • Displaying HTML content
  • Understanding the HTMLLoader class
  • Using the component
  • Detecting network availability
  • Monitoring network state changes
  • Detecting HTTP resource availability
  • Detecting Socket connectivity
Understanding AIR security
  • Considering AIR security
  • Introducing AIR security
  • Introducing security sandboxes
  • Introducing AIR security best practices
  • Detecting AIR capabilities
  • Using encrypted data storage
  • Understanding AIR application updating
  • Using the Updater class
  • Determining current version at runtime
  • Encrypting local database files
  • Implementing database encryption
Customizing Deployment
  • Setting the application™s desktop icon
  • Using application icons
  • Setting system tray icon
  • Addressing the nativeApplication
Review: Creating the 'PhotoLab' application
  • Introducing the 'PhotoLab' application
  • Understanding the lab structure
  • Examining and running the solution code