Description
This training course provides a comprehensive introduction to the Adobe Integration Runtime 2.6 for Adobe Flex developers. It consists of 29 hands-on exercises with supporting content and files, and a comprehensive 8 part independent lab exercise.
Tuition:
Dates:
- Apr 10 – 11, 2012
- Jul 16 – 17, 2012
- Oct 29 – 30, 2012
Additional Class Information
Times:
Duration:
- Three (3) day instructor-led training
Training Formats:
Prerequisites:
To gain the most from this class, you should already have:
Course outline
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 an application
- 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
- Determing 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 <mx:HTML /> 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
- Detecing 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
LAB: Creating the PhotoLab application using Flex 4, AIR 2, and LiveCycle Collaboration Services
- Introducing the PhotoLab application
- Understanding the lab structure
- Examining and running the solution code
