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Preface

Chapter 1. Introduction to Adobe AIR

Section 1.1. A Short History of Web Applications

Section 1.2. Problems with Delivering Applications via the Browser

Section 1.3. Introducing Adobe AIR

Section 1.4. Primary Adobe AIR Technologies

Chapter 2. Getting Started with Adobe AIR Development

Section 2.1. What Do You Need to Develop Adobe AIR Applications?

Section 2.2. Uninstalling Prerelease Versions of Adobe AIR

Section 2.3. Installing Adobe AIR

Section 2.4. Uninstalling Adobe AIR

Section 2.5. Setting Up the Adobe AIR SDK and Command-Line Tools

Section 2.6. Creating a Simple AIR Application with HTML and JavaScript

Section 2.7. Testing the Application

Section 2.8. Packaging and Deploying the AIR Application

Chapter 3. Working with JavaScript and HTML Within Adobe AIR

Section 3.1. WebKit Within Adobe AIR

Section 3.2. JavaScript within Adobe AIR

Section 3.3. AIR Implementation of Functionality

Section 3.4. Security Model

Section 3.5. Using JavaScript Frameworks

Section 3.6. Troubleshooting AIR Applications

Chapter 4. Adobe AIR Mini-Cookbook

Section 4.1. Application Deployment

Section 4.2. Application Chrome

Section 4.3. Windowing

Section 4.4. File API

Section 4.5. File Pickers

Section 4.6. Service and Server Monitoring

Section 4.7. Online/Offline

Section 4.8. Drag-and-Drop

Section 4.9. Embedded Database

Section 4.10. Command-Line Arguments

Section 4.11. Networking

Section 4.12. Sound

Appendix A. AIR JavaScript Aliases

Index