Introducing the Course

Introducing Mastery Learning

Understanding the Course Format

Reviewing the Course Prerequisites

Reviewing the Course Outline

Introducing the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)

Exploring the AIR Development Toolset

Reviewing the Adobe AIR Tools for Flash Builder 4

Getting Started with AIR

Creating Your First AIR Application

Walkthrough 1: Create an AIR Application

Packaging and Deploying Applications

Walkthrough 2: Export and Install an Application

Understanding AIR Fundamentals

Walkthrough 3: Examine the AIR Package and Change the Descriptor

Getting Help and Other Resources

Using the File System

Using the File Class

Walkthrough 1: Using the File Class

Enabling Visual File System Interaction

Walkthrough 2: Use File System Browsing and Display Components

Removing Files from the File System

Walkthrough 3: Interacting with Visually Specified File Objects

Launching Files in Their Default Application

Walkthrough 4: Launching Files in Their Default Client Application

Advanced File System Techniques

Using File Streams

Walkthrough 1: Create a Directory or UTF-8 (Unicode) Text File

Working with Binary Data

Walkthrough 2: Read, Modify, and Write a Binary File to the Desktop

Working with Mass Storage Devices

Walkthrough 3: Mounting, Displaying Files, and Copying to Mass Storage Devices

Using the Clipboard

Moving Data with Copy and Paste

Walkthrough 1: Moving Data to and from the System Clipboard

Using Drag and Drop

Walkthrough 2: Drag Images from the Operating System into the Application

Persisting Application Data

Using an Embedded SQL Database

Walkthrough 1: Create a New Database

Using SQL Statements

Walkthrough 2: Create a Table then Insert and Retrieve and Display Records

Storing and Loading Complex Data

Walkthrough 3: Use Data/Time and BLOB Data

Creating Native Windows

Creating Windows

Walkthrough 1: Create Open and Close a Native Window

Modifying the Window Display

Walkthrough 2: Control Window Chrome and Full Screen Display

Manipulating Windows

Walkthrough 3: Control Window Behaviors when System Chrome is Removed

Connecting Applications

Launching and Interacting with Native Operating System Processes

Walkthrough 1: Launching and Using a Native Process to Perform a Screen Capture

Communicating between Applications

Walkthrough 2: Connect to and Call Another Method in Another AIR Application

Connecting to Web Applications Using URL Requests over HTTP

Walkthrough 3: Interact with a Remote Service Using Posted URL Data

Displaying HTML Content

Walkthrough 4: Load HTML into an AIR Application

Detecting Network Availability

Walkthrough 5: Add Network Detection

Understanding AIR Security

Considering AIR Security

Walkthrough 1: Respond to Player Capability

Using Encrypted Data Storage

Walkthrough 2: Using Encrypted Local Storage

Understanding AIR Application Updating

Walkthrough 3: Verifying Versioning During Application Update

Encrypting Local Database Files

Creating a Local Encrypted Database

Customizing Deployment

Setting the Application Desktop Icon

Walkthrough 1: Add Application Icons

Setting System Tray Icon

Walkthrough 2: Adding a System Tray Icon

Lab: Creating the PhotoLab Application Using Flex 4 and AIR 2 and LiveCycle Collaboration Services