I managed to find a link in my bookmarks that will serve as an excelent starting point:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/flex/articles/flex_air_codebase.html EdB On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:40 PM, simonjpalmer<simonjpal...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Thanks for the link. I have been through most of them - quite a few are > duplicates of links on other aggregated lists - and spent a considerable > amount of time on the Adobe web site prior to posting here. The trouble is > that none of these examples actually cover the single thing that I don't > understand adequately, namely the relationship between a "traditional" Flex > swf app running in the browser and an AIR app with an identical user > interface running on the desktop. > > Most of the samples I have downloaded and picked apart so far are either > examples of how you can create pure desktop apps with AIR, with varying > degrees of sophistication, or tutorials for JS/HTML programmers to tempt > them into the AIR runtime so their apps can have access to the user's file > system. > > What I need is an example of an app where the user starts in the web and is > provided the option of going offline, at which point an AIR app is installed > for them and they can continue to work in an identical environment without > being connected. Following that I'd like to see a practical example of how > data synchronisation is managed when they re-connect to the web. > > This would seem to be an obvious lifecycle and at the heart of AIR's unique > proposition, but I am not really seeing how it fits together. As I said at > the beginning I must be missing something simple, basic and obvious and I > was hoping I could get a pointer from AIR tutorials. No luck so far... any > ideas? > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "grenma" <gre...@...> wrote: >> >> Beside Adobe, you could probably start here: >> >> >> http://www.smashingapps.com/2009/03/06/25-excellent-and-useful-adobe-air-tutorials-resources.html >> >> >> RG >> >> --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "simonjpalmer" <simonjpalmer@> wrote: >> > >> > I have built quite a few apps with Flex 2 over the last few years and >> > have been using using a Java (JBoss) back end. I have a new requirement for >> > an app which needs to be able to run on- and off-line and deliver an >> > identical user experience. My limited understanding of AIR is that this is >> > what it was intended to do, so I got FlexBuilder 3. >> > >> > I have done all the sort of startup stuff that you would expect, like >> > building an app from scratch and reading a collection of tutorials on the >> > web and downloading a few sample apps, but I haven't yet come across a good >> > resource for giving me the start I need. >> > >> > (Naively) I was expecting to be able to build a regular web-based flex >> > app and then "deploy" it to AIR, with maybe some additional features in the >> > AIR version to take advantage of it running on the desktop. Alternatively I >> > was expecting to be able to take the AIR app and "deploy" it to the web as >> > an SWF. >> > >> > I'm obviously missing some basic element of the AIR philosophy because I >> > can't really see how to do either of these things. I suspect I just need >> > some really obvious thing pointed out to me. >> > >> > Does anyone know of a good resource to introduce the AIR architecture >> > and philosophy to Flex programmers? >> > >> > > -- Ix Multimedia Software Jan Luykenstraat 27 3521 VB Utrecht T. 06-51952295 I. www.ixsoftware.nl
