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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 006.76 EAN: 9780470182079 ISBN: 0470182075 Label: Wrox Manufacturer: Wrox Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 457 Publication Date: April 28, 2008 Publisher: Wrox Studio: Wrox Related Items:
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 Rating:  - extended case studiesThe attraction of this book is the collection of 11 extended examples. Each is a case study in how to use AIR to code desktop applications. There is a slight irony here in the trajectory taken by Adobe. Its original products, and probably still its main revenue sources, were for desktop usages. Think Postscript and PDF. But the rise of the Web caused it to develop Flash for web applications. Now here, we come back to the desktop. The book's examples involve Java as the programming language. ... Read More Rating:  - Truly an Amazing BookThis is truly an amazing book. Seldom are books (like this one) written which provide applicable programs that I can use to create more advanced applications on. This is a must buy for the serious Adobe Air programmer. I just completed an application based on the code in this book. Check it out on Youtube and Google Code at Adobe Air Collada-Papervision3D Viewer [...] Many Many Many Thanks to the authors!!! I plan to write many more applications based on the code in ... Read More Rating: - Be Prepared to Absorb Massive Info, or Your Head Will ExplodeAdobe AIR investigates 11 practical application from start to finish. Music players, video players, slideshows, Mini CMS (whoo hoo!) are some of the apps. This book is NOT ideal for beginners, and intermediate developers might miss some of the jewels. The authors basically dump TONS of excellent OOP code on you and only point out the AIR specific bits. For example, the authors will extend classes, call public variables instantiated in super-classes, and override custom abstract methods and not ... Read More 
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