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Course Outline

Introducing the course

• Introducing Mastery Learning
• Understanding the course format
• Reviewing the course prerequisites
• Reviewing the course outline

Introducing the Adobe Integrated Runtime

• Exploring the AIR development Toolset
• Understanding the runtime application
• Understanding the AIR SDK
• Looking at Dreamweaver
• Reviewing the AIR tools for Dreamweaver
• Creating AIR Sites
• Exporting AIR Applications
• Walkthrough: Review the course application

Getting started with AIR

• Creating your first AIR application
• Creating an AIR project
• Walkthrough: Create your first AIR application
• Creating an AIR application in Dreamweaver
• Creating a Site
• Creating a new AIR application in Dreamweaver
• Launching Your AIR application in Dreamweaver
• Walkthrough: Create an AIR application with Dreamweaver
• Packaging and deploying applications
• Using the Air Application Settings Wizard
• Selecting application content
• Code-signing an application
• Exporting an application
• Installing an application
• Walkthrough: Export and install application
• Understanding the contents of the .air file
• Exploring the AIR file format
• Understanding the application descriptor
• Understanding the application display attributes
• Walkthrough: Examine the AIR package
• Learning AIR Fundamentals
• Understanding the application container
• Functionality of AIR
• Accessing AIR Features from Javascript
• Getting Debugging Information
• Extending the Runtime with ActionScript
• Walkthrough: Create an AIR application with Javascript
• Getting help and other resources

Using the File System

• Using the File class
• Introducing the file class
• Accessing common directories
• Allowing user to specify files or directories
• Walkthrough: Browsing the file system with the File class
• Interacting with the file system
• Referencing a file or directory
• Creating directories
• Moving and copying file system objects
• Removing file system objects
• Walkthrough: Copy, move and delete file objects
• Using file streams
• Reading and Writing Files
• Walkthrough: Read and write a file
• Working with files asynchronously
• Compare synchronous and asynchronous methods
• Walkthrough: Read a file asynchronously

Creating Native Windows

• Exploring the types of windows
• Customizing properties of the window
• Walkthrough using window.open()
• Using the NativeWindow class
• Adding content to a window
• Walkthrough: Create a native window
• Manipulating windows
• Resizing a window
• Moving a window
• Walkthrough: Resize and move a window
• Using window events
• Using addEventListener()
• Identifying the window events
• Walkthrough: Listen for window event

Lab 1

Persisting Application Data

• Using an embedded SQL databases
• Understanding the database file
• Opening a database
• Creating a database
• Walkthrough: Create a new database
• Using SQL statements
• Managing the database
• Managing the data
• Using best practices with embedded databases
• Walkthrough: Update database and records
• Working with data types
• Using Date data type
• Using XML data type
• Using BLOB data type
• Walkthrough: Use date/time data

Using the clipboard

• Moving data with copy and paste
• Understanding the Clipboard
• Using the generalClipboard
• Getting data from the clipboard
• Writing data to the clipboard
• Walkthrough: Moving data with copy and paste
• Using drag-and-drop
• Exploring the drag and drop stages
• Dragging with the clipboard
• Walkthrough: Drag an image into the application

Connecting Applications

• Communicating between applications
• Using LocalConnection
• Walkthrough: Connect to another AIR application
• Detecing network availability
• Monitoring network state changes
• Detecting HTTP connectivity
• Detecting Socket connectivity
• Walkthrough: Using network detection
• Connecting to web applications using URLRequest
• Requesting a URL via HTTP
• Using the URLRequest class
• Using the URLVariables class
• Using the URLoader class
• Walkthrough: Using the URLRequest Object

Understanding AIR Security

• Considering AIR security
• Learning about security sandboxes
• Understanding the domain considerations
• Understanding the need for Security Sandboxes
• Implementing Security Sandboxes
• Implementing the sandbox bridge
• Walkthrough: Create a security sandbox
• Understanding application updates
• Walkthrough: Update an application

Customizing Application Deployment

• Setting the application's desktop icon
• Using application icons
• Walkthrough: Add icon to application
• Using system tray icons
• Walkthrough: Adding a system tray icon

Summary and Review

Lab 2

Classroom Locations

eLearning Live

Newport Beach

San Francisco

Los Angeles

San Jose