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Adobe AIR: Create - Modify - Reuse (Programmer to Programmer)
by Marc Leuchner, Todd Anderson, Matt Wright
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Wrox (2008-04-28)
ISBN: 0470182075
EAN: 9780470182079
Dewey Decimal #: 006.76
Binding/Media: Paperback - 457 pages
SKU: 102009-1669
Condition: New
Comments: 0470182075 Brand new, we have a HUGE selection of computer books at great prices! All discs included if issued by publisher. New, never read, may have minor wear on cover.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) revolutionizes the way Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) are deployed and supports two primary technologies?Flash and HTML/Ajax?in order to make desktop development something that every web developer can do. This book walks you through eleven fully implemented AIR applications with source code that you can use as they currently exist or customize. Each project begins with a discussion of architecture and design, followed by code implementation. You?ll get hands-on knowledge of AIR application design and development that you can then use to build dynamic RIAs.
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Customer Reviews
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great way to learn Adobe AIR
Rating  (5)
Date: 2009-06-12
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Adobe AIR has a dual personality. On one hand it it doesn't spend a lot of time hand-holding when you get to the pages of code. But the good part is, they've told you most of what matters by that time - these authors really know their code. I learned more than I thought - as a beginner I thought I'd use this latter on but what I found is that (just like learning any language) it is best to just immerse yourself and you'll eventually see how it all fits together. Really :)
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Not good for FlexBuilder
Rating  (3)
Date: 2008-11-16
3 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
The examples are pretty good but it is really hard to follow if you are using FlexBuilder as I am. There are no instructions on how to use them in FlexBuilder, though it is not very hard to figure out. The really bad part is that the examples tend to do the UI's last. This makes it VERY hard to follow the examples. If you completely type in the examples, you tend to not be able to find the error until you COMPLETELY finish typing in all of the code. Also, the file name and path of the file you are typing in is given after the code which is backwards of most books.
The examples are cool but the explanations are a bit week and there is very little docs in the code which makes it a bit more difficult to follow especially if you are new to this.
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Create Modify Reuse .... not really
Rating  (4)
Date: 2008-10-18
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is a really good book. It has complete code example of using air to create real world examples. Each chapter is a different example. There are two things I would change about the book: 1. The Title. I don't see what this has to do with create, modify, reuse. There is sql hard coded right in variables! If it is called create, modify, reuse, you would think I would learn about good ways to set up an air database without hard coded create table statements! 2. The long code blocks could use a few comments! There are pages and pages of just code...with no comments. While it is explained before and after, a few comments in the code examples would be nice. While I mentioned the negatives, overall I think this book is a really good learning experience with real applications.
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extended case studies
Rating (4)
Date: 2008-06-22
8 out of 13 customers found this reveiw helpful
The attraction of this book is the collection of 11 extended examples. Each is a case study in how to use AIR to code desktop applications. There is a slight irony here in the trajectory taken by Adobe. Its original products, and probably still its main revenue sources, were for desktop usages. Think Postscript and PDF. But the rise of the Web caused it to develop Flash for web applications. Now here, we come back to the desktop.
The book's examples involve Java as the programming language. Extensive usage is also made of XML and HTML. You are encouraged to use the examples as a basis for modification for your own needs. The examples are verbose, but luckily you can also get these from the accompanying website.
The examples do vary in their complexity. You may want to pay especial attention to the Map application. This involves accessing a SQL database that comes with AIR. The code shows how to make the necessary tables. If you have in mind a "serious" application with lots of data, then often you'll need a SQL database for it. The example here shows that this can be straightforward.
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Truly an Amazing Book
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-05-23
3 out of 8 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is truly an amazing book. Seldom are books (like this one) written which provide applicable programs that I can use to create more advanced applications on. This is a must buy for the serious Adobe Air programmer. I just completed an application based on the code in this book. Check it out on Youtube and Google Code at
Adobe Air Collada-Papervision3D Viewer
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Many Many Many Thanks to the authors!!! I plan to write many more applications based on the code in this book. This book has saved me hours and hours and hours of work!
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