Sams Books Adobe AIR Programming Unleashed

Adobe AIR Programming Unleashed is a comprehensive, hands-on guide to AIR, the technology that lets Web developers use their skills to create rich Desktop applications. The new Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) aims to merge the best-of-both-worlds in Web and desktop application development. This book fuels innovation by creatively graduating the User from a series of task-oriented examples to larger scale, real-world projects. Covers AIR 1.0, scheduled for release in the spring of 2008 Uses real-world examples (including a Flex/HTML mashup) to show the code in context Includes chapters on design patterns, security, Agile development The author is a developer on the AIR team at Adobe, while the two contributors are full-time, in the trenches, AIR programmers