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Beginning Adobe AIR: Building Applications for the Adobe Integrated Runtime (Programmer to Programmer)
by Rich Tretola
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Wrox (2008-04-07)
ISBN: 0470229047
EAN: 9780470229040
Dewey Decimal #: 006.76
Paperback: 319 pages
Edition: Pap/Onl
SKU: 111408000179
Condition: New
Comments: 0470229047 New, never read, may have minor wear on cover.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
If youre ready to take advantage of Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) to build desktop-based Rich Internet Applications, then this is the book for you. After introducing you to AIR, Adobe expert Rich Tretola discusses the different programming languages and tools you can use for development. He presents multiple methods for storing data, including within the file system and embedded database as well as storage on remote servers. This guide is a perfect mix of tutorials and hands-on coding, and provides the resources you need to build AIR applications quickly.
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Customer Reviews
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Quite disappointing
Rating  (1)
Date: 2008-07-26
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
You're wandering through the desert for hours on end when someone appears wanting to to sell you a cold bottle of beer. You're thirsty and would pay just about anything. You pay the price and then discover it isn't cold and it isn't beer and it doesn't quench your thirst. You've been had. Buy Beginning Adobe AIR and you may feel like this.
I bought a copy here on Amazon. There are just not many books on AIR just yet, so I thought I'd give it a try. This one was obviously rushed to press. The publisher and editor should be embarrassed by their lack of oversight. This greatly diminishes WROX standards of quality. There are many places where the author copied and pasted whole sections, changing a key word here but forgetting to make a change there. Really stupid and unprofessional. What is presented in so many chapters and through repetition could be concisely written in just a few chapters.
But is the information ultimately useful? Well, maybe to a few readers. In my opinion a few hours spent working through some of the sample applications on the AIR website might serve you far better than this title. Also, keep a watch for other titles that will surely appear on this exciting technology. I just can't recommend this volume ... unless you are really, really thirsty.
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Solid AIR Book
Rating  (4)
Date: 2008-05-29
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
I've never been too fond of the Wrox books but am happy to note that this was an excellent starter book for AIR. I decided to roll the dice on it (based on poor experiences with other Wrox titles) because of the author (a noted Flex/AIR guru), whose blog I've read. Well, Rich Tretola (the author, that is!) did not disappoint. The book is concise and packed with good informaiton on AIR and the new APIs you'll want to use/learn. Speaking of the APIs, all code/examples in the book are useful and focused.
If you are looking to get started with AIR, this is an excellent book for you.
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Far too light - even for a beginners book
Rating (1)
Date: 2008-05-27
0 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
While I appreciate the AIR v1.0 has only just been released, this book was far too light on - I didn't really gain anything that I had already learnt from Adobe's quickstart and sample apps. It's a pity because there is a heap more stuff in AIR that just a little extra insight could have really added a lot of value to this book.
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Not for HTML/JavaScript Programmers
Rating (1)
Date: 2008-05-15
2 out of 9 customers found this reveiw helpful
If you're looking for a big 'Hello World' book using Flex then this is the book for you. The publisher has done a great job in mentioning all of the relevant technologies without saying the book is targetted towards Flex developers.
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Well done, but could be longer.
Rating (4)
Date: 2008-04-30
8 out of 8 customers found this reveiw helpful
It's solid. It has a "cookbook" feel to it, which I like. What I mean by that is that the book dishes out info in a succinct way and covers pretty much what you'd like to know when building an app. Things like, prepping the xml description file, accessing the local file system, connecting to remote data, interacting with the OS. Good stuff.
I don't like how short it is, about 300 pages. The text is big, has lots of pictures (this is good but it inflates the page count), and a few tables that I thought were unnecessary.
If you are competent in Actionscript, but don't know much about AIR, this is great. I'm an advanced ActionScripter, so this book really just fills in a few holes I had about AIR, and will serve as a good reference when I need to be reminded how to say, move a directory on the users computer or how to set the window chrome of an application.
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