Adobe AIR Quick Starts for ActionScript developers
The following topics illustrate some of the most important or popular features of the Adobe AIR runtime. Start here to learn how to use specific AIR APIs when building AIR applications. For basic instructions on getting started with these topics, start with Building the Quick Start sample applications with Flex or Building the Quick Start sample applications with Flash Professional CS5, depending on your preferred development environment.
Flex developers |
Application life cycle
Windows and menus
- Adding menus to an AIR application
- Controlling the display order of windows
- Creating a transparent window application
- Creating resizable, non-rectangular windows
- Creating toast-style windows
- Customizing the look and feel of a window
- Interacting with a window
- Launching native windows
- Measuring the virtual desktop
Networking and communication
Mobile
Image and video processing
Files and data
- Building a directory search application
- Building a JPEG file uploader
- Building a text file editor
- Compressing files and data
- Cross-scripting PDF content in an AIR application
- Dragging, copying, and pasting data
- Reading from and writing to an XML preferences file
- Working with the dock and the system tray
- Working with the encrypted local SQLite database
- Working asynchronously with a local SQL database
- Working synchronously with a local SQL database
Flash developers |