AIR is Adobe’s open-source technology that allows you to create Rich Internet Applications that run outside of any Web browser.
They are, in fact, desktop applications—like Microsoft’s Word or Adobe’s InDesign, that can do things on your computer, send data to the Internet, retrieve data from it, and more, without having to open up Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Safari, type a URL, wait for the page to load, and so on.
Adobe AIR: Visual QuickPro Guide, Rough Cuts presents everything that Web developers and programmers need to know to begin creating desktop applications today. Using a visual and step-by-step approach, all of the fundamental concepts are covered, without the fluff, confusing segues, and technical jargon that bog down so many other computer books.
The target audience for this book is primarily the Web developer who is already using Flash or HTML/JavaScript/CSS/Ajax to create dynamic Web sites.
Adobe AIR: Visual QuickPro Guide is written by Larry Ullman, author of a dozen or so books on PHP, MySQL, Ajax, C, C++, and Mac OS X. Larry has a well-earned reputation for writing books that are accessible, easy-to-follow, and above-all, useful. This book is a truly cross-platform book, tested and with examples running on Windows and Mac OS X.
The book also covers technologies involved in creating Apollo applications: Adobe’s Flex, HTML/JavaScript/CSS/Ajax, and PDF.
As a Peachpit Visual QuickPro book, readers will know they are getting a title that’s direct, informative, and reasonably-priced.
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