Here is a great book from Manning about AIR development that you might want to check out. Topics include: windowing, menus, file system, drag-and-drop, local databases, SQLite, HTML in AIR, network connectivity and also updating/distributing apps. Flex and Flash based AIR development techniques are covered. “Adobe AIR in Action introduces AIR to developers familiar with Flash and Flex, showing them how to build solid AIR-driven desktop applications. Using examples, the expert authors walk web developers through the new topics they will need to develop AIR applications for the desktop.”

You can download two free sample chapters from the book in PDF format here:

Introducing Adobe AIR (1.7 MB)

Applications, windows and menus (3.1 MB)

You can also check out the Table of Contents here.

Shout out to the great authors: Joey Lott, Kathryn Rotondo, Sam Ahn and Ashley Atkins. (And an extra special thanks to Kathryn for sharing that other source code.) Props to Karen Tegtmeyer as well for coordinating my involvement with the review effort.

Visit the companion website here:
http://www.manning.com/lott/

I actually had the extreme pleasure of doing some technical reviews of the book while it was being written. As a thank you Manning placed a quote from me on the back of the book. In addition my name appears in the acknowledgments. This is a huge, huge honor and I am extremely thankful. Thank you very, very for the opportunity.

Here are some photos of my copy of the book.

Adobe AIR In Action - Manning

Adobe AIR In Action - Sean Moore Quote