What I’m asking you is to follow me until to the end of this post then you can send me an email and ask me if I became totally crazy or insult me with a comment, no worries 😀 Obviously I agree also that there isn’t any competition between Actionscript 3 and HTML5 (read Javascript), what you can really do with HTML5 is what a flash developer could do 5 years ago more or less.īut you can’t approach a discussion like this talking only from a developer perspective, you and we should see it from different angles also. I’m very committed to deliver amazing and cutting edge projects made with this fantastic technology and I’m involved in the community to spread the word about AIR.įrom a developer perspective I’m 110% with Gary and the community an amazing technology like Adobe AIR with really a lots of success behind in terms of developers and companies that adopted this technology and in terms of numbers of apps in released during the past few years in different platform.ĪIR, in my opinion, should have a better commitment from the company that create it (partially). If you know me personally or you are following me in the social networks or reading this blog you should know that I’m a big fan of Flash Platform, in particular of Adobe AIR. If you haven't used ActionScript or MXML then you don't have much of a chance at all.I don’t know if you had already read the open letter that Gary wrote recently discussing about the arguable marketing choice made by Adobe on Adobe AIR but also previously about the Flash Platform in general, but I suggest you to start from there before read this post. If you already program Flex/Flash using ActionScript and MXML it is difficult to see exactly what this book is going to tell you that you couldn't find out reading the documentation. Nothing that is covered is very advanced and as the book isn't suitable for the complete beginner it is difficult to see who it is targeted at. The value of the book depends on which topics you find useful. Overall the book deals with an almost random collection of topics that take you through different aspects of AIR development. There is also a certain amount of repletion caused by starting out from scratch with a number of different IDEs.
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Far better to either avoid the issue or say a few words about how to fix the problem. No mention of how to repair a malformed XML file is given and so the beginner is left with nowhere to go. Some of the comments are also less than helpful - for example, early on the reader is told that editing the application descriptor can result in a malformed XML file which means you can't compile the program. An instruction to view the generated files would have saved pages and perhaps given space for more useful information. I can understand the problem that the author has in deciding what to list and what not to list, but in a book where the reader is supposed to be following the steps the generated files are easy enough to see. There are a far too many long and fairly irrelevant listings. It starts from the basics of what an AIR application is and how to get a development environment setup - either Flex, Flash or Dreamweaver. The problem that any AIR book has to solve is that AIR is just the desktop deployment of a Flex application and this raises the issue of do you teach Flex first? This particular book doesn't tackle the Flex issue but it also isn't clear how much it really expects you to already know. If you like the "in 24 hours" format and already know about Flex programming then you might well find this book helpful - but only if you have reached exactly the right stage in learning about Flash/Flex. Pros: Covers several aspects of AIR developmentĬons: Devotes valuable space to generated code, repetitive
Teach Yourself Adobe AIR Programming in 24 Hours
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