Building a Photo Gallery with Adobe AIR by Todd Anderson

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Synopsis

This Wrox Blox walks you through building a desktop application using your favorite text editor and the Flex 3 command-line tools, leveraging the Flex Framework to browse and manipulate images found on your local system using the Adobe AIR API included in the Flex 3 SDK. Adobe AIR is a cross-platform runtime that gives you the ability to bring the rich Internet application experience to the desktop. Building a photo gallery is an excellent place to start when delving into the system features of the Adobe AIR API included in the Flex 3 SDK. Readers will also be introduced to the native drag-and-drop capabilities and File I/O features of the Adobe AIR API as they pertain to bitmap data.

Biography

Todd Anderson is a Senior Software Developer in the Multimedia Platforms Group at Schematic. With close to 5 years of banging keys to build Flex and Flash applications, Todd has delivered Web and desktop solutions for companies in the publishing and entertainment industries such as McGraw-Hill, Thomson, Motorola, ABC, and Conde Nast. Todd holds a BFA in Illustration and a Certificate of New Media from the Rhode Island School of Design.