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Book:   Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook
Subject:   Great book!!!
Date:   2009-02-24 01:08:36
From:   pawels
Rating:  StarStarStarStarStar

As we know Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook includes recipes from David Tucker, Rich Tretola, Marco Casario and Koen De Weggheleire. This book is for
intermediate developers who already have a good working knowledge of the Flex tool and ActionScript or JavaScript. Definetely this book helps us to solve many problems because the whole book is full of very useful examples.


And now quick summary of what I have found in this book.


Chapters 1, 2, 16, 17 show us how we can make air app in different developing environments (Flex Builder, Flash, Html and JS) and covers most environmental setup tips. Chapter 16 and 17 are about creating app updates (AIR Update Framework), using install badges and whole information needed to distribute air application.


The rest chapters (3-15) explore AIR app - many useful examples of: windows in app, html content, file system, database, network monitoring framework and much more.


The book also contains information that author gives us a bonus online chapter with steps of creating four different mashups
applications with adobe air utilizing the solutions found in this book. In conclusion.. I have waited for this book since the announcement.. and now I can say that it was worth waiting. This book is great. It shows the power of AIR!

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