Professional AIR

The revolutionary new AIR platform promises to change the way desktop applications are created; by leveraging existing Web technologies and platforms, AIR may put desktop development within reach of every Web developer. A detailed guide for building AIR applications, this book translates languages, frameworks, and architectures of existing Web development into successful strategies for building desktop apps in AIR. Readers learn to manipulate AIR to bring RIA development to the desktop. Builds progressively to more advanced topics, culminating in real-world applications that put the skills that readers have been developing throughout the book to work.