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Recipes for Success in Rich Internet Application and AIR App Development
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With this collection of proven recipes, you have the ideal problem-solving guide for developing interactive Rich Internet Applications on the Adobe Flash Platform. You'll find answers to hundreds of common problems you may encounter when using Adobe Flex, Flex 4 Framework, or Flash Builder, Adobe's GUI-based development tool.
Flex 4 Cookbook has hands-on recipes for everything from Flex basics to solutions for working with visual components and data access, as well as tips on application development, unit testing, and Adobe AIR. Each recipe provides an explanation of how and why it works, and includes sample code that you can use immediately. You'll get results fast, whether you're a committed Flex developer or still evaluating the technology. It's a great way to jumpstart your next web application.
Topics include:
- Using Spark Component
- Text Layout Framework
- Groups and Layout
- Spark List and ItemRenderer
- Images, bitmaps, videos, and sounds
- CSS, styling, and skinning
- States and Effects
- Working with Collections
- Using DataBinding
- Validation, formatting, and regular expressions
- Using Charts
- Services and Data Access
- Using RSLs and Modules
- Working with Adobe AIR 2.0
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
-If you like to learn by example and know more about the latest version of Flex, then this is the book on Flex for you.
-This book moved my understanding of Flex 4 (Spark (v4) & Halo (v3) actually) on immensely.
-It's a hefty thorough and extensive tome, covering 295 diverse examples which are meaty enough to lay the foundations for other ideas (of which 293 were clear and easy to follow).
-Chapters 16 & 17 on Browser Communication and Modules/Shared Runtime Libraries were my favourites as they covered things I'd not seen in enough detail before.
- The recipes are extensively cross-referenced too, so if you look at one example you can find an elaboration elsewhere, so the book makes for a handy reference I'm sure I'll be referring to often in the future.
- It's probably worth supplementing this book with the Colin Moock book too (Essential ActionScript 3.0). I'm quite a polyglot when it comes to computer language but there was the odd bit of syntax I was unfamiliar with not present in other languages that I uncovered reading the book, but it didn't hold me back from getting the general gist of things.
Prior to this I'd read Flex 3 in Action by Tareq Ahmed and Pro Flex on Spring by Chris Giametta:
- This book doesn't have an architectural bias, whereas Pro Flex on Spring did and covered PureMVC & Cairngorm and obviously Java integration.
- Flex 3 in Action was too basic for my taste and I like to dive right in more at the deep end and learn by example and this book did just that in spades.
Kudos to the folks who did the proofreading too. it was probably one of the best books I've read in that respect and I only spotted a few things on an initial read through 700+ pages:
-One of these was indentation of code on P587,
- a trivial one, a weight was defined in XML as k instead of kg...
- I also think there was an example where the code said something like function fun ... in there somewhere too, whereby a partial word inadvertently got repeated.
The only sections of the book that were unclear to me were:
- recipe 14.11 P396 : The sentence beginning "Translating this into English.." on regular expressions. The unfortunate thing was a regular expression group was part of the sentence enclosed in brackets and it looked like the sentence was referring to what was in the brackets on a first read and that didn't make sense. It took a couple of read throughs to understand that... :-)
- recipe 18.18 (P523 in particular) and the creation of an AIR application with update capabilities. There was mention of an update.xml file which I don't recall seeing an example of and the index made no mention of it. I couldn't see how this could work if you were more than one release behind on your desktop and you had to refer to an update file on a server via some url (mentioned in prior recipe). Did the update file have several nodes, one per version, or should the update.xml file be named in such a way as to relate to a given version. Who knows.
Overall a great job guys.
Now I'm familiar with the works of these authors, I'll keep my eyes peeled for one of the co-author's (Marco Casario's ) Friends of Ed book: Flex 4 Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex Developers ISBN: 1430223952. I think it'll make an excellent companion to this book.
-This book moved my understanding of Flex 4 (Spark (v4) & Halo (v3) actually) on immensely.
-It's a hefty thorough and extensive tome, covering 295 diverse examples which are meaty enough to lay the foundations for other ideas (of which 293 were clear and easy to follow).
-Chapters 16 & 17 on Browser Communication and Modules/Shared Runtime Libraries were my favourites as they covered things I'd not seen in enough detail before.
- The recipes are extensively cross-referenced too, so if you look at one example you can find an elaboration elsewhere, so the book makes for a handy reference I'm sure I'll be referring to often in the future.
- It's probably worth supplementing this book with the Colin Moock book too (Essential ActionScript 3.0). I'm quite a polyglot when it comes to computer language but there was the odd bit of syntax I was unfamiliar with not present in other languages that I uncovered reading the book, but it didn't hold me back from getting the general gist of things.
Prior to this I'd read Flex 3 in Action by Tareq Ahmed and Pro Flex on Spring by Chris Giametta:
- This book doesn't have an architectural bias, whereas Pro Flex on Spring did and covered PureMVC & Cairngorm and obviously Java integration.
- Flex 3 in Action was too basic for my taste and I like to dive right in more at the deep end and learn by example and this book did just that in spades.
Kudos to the folks who did the proofreading too. it was probably one of the best books I've read in that respect and I only spotted a few things on an initial read through 700+ pages:
-One of these was indentation of code on P587,
- a trivial one, a weight was defined in XML as k instead of kg...
- I also think there was an example where the code said something like function fun ... in there somewhere too, whereby a partial word inadvertently got repeated.
The only sections of the book that were unclear to me were:
- recipe 14.11 P396 : The sentence beginning "Translating this into English.." on regular expressions. The unfortunate thing was a regular expression group was part of the sentence enclosed in brackets and it looked like the sentence was referring to what was in the brackets on a first read and that didn't make sense. It took a couple of read throughs to understand that... :-)
- recipe 18.18 (P523 in particular) and the creation of an AIR application with update capabilities. There was mention of an update.xml file which I don't recall seeing an example of and the index made no mention of it. I couldn't see how this could work if you were more than one release behind on your desktop and you had to refer to an update file on a server via some url (mentioned in prior recipe). Did the update file have several nodes, one per version, or should the update.xml file be named in such a way as to relate to a given version. Who knows.
Overall a great job guys.
Now I'm familiar with the works of these authors, I'll keep my eyes peeled for one of the co-author's (Marco Casario's ) Friends of Ed book: Flex 4 Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex Developers ISBN: 1430223952. I think it'll make an excellent companion to this book.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Beginning to End - Best Flex 4 book available
14 Jun 2010
Format:Paperback
This is just one of those books every Flex developer should own. With each release, Flex has continued to prove its pedigree as the best framework for developing rich interactive experiences. Flex 4 is no exception (it is a superb example of how an ECMA based language and XML can be combined into a stellar programming environment). It has been overhauled with features that make creating apps an absolute joy; it's as if the developers of the Flex framework personally listened to the community's feedback and integrated the best suggestions. The authors of this book are extremely well respected Flex developers and active community participants, so it's no wonder they produced a book that covers every important detail each new or seasoned developer should know. I've been stuck on numerous occasions, whereby turning to the cookbook solved my problems so that I could go about my day without losing any hair. This book covers all of the new features like skinning, states, the spark component framework, layout management, animation and Air 2.0 as well as covering features from the previous versions. All in all, if you are new to Flex or just need a tip or two (or thirty), this book is well worth the money and won't let you down.
Great book!
17 May 2012
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I've had this book for a while and I still constantly reference it. I've been working with Flex since 2005 and I usually only get a few good tidbits out of a book like this but the Flex 4 Cookbook has been quite the opposite for me. It's chalked with great examples and techniques. Even if you're a Flex guru, pick this book up. It definitely has plenty of gems in it.
Written to save our time
23 Oct 2010
Format:Paperback
Flex 4 Cookbook is written to save our time. It consists of hundreds of tested recipes for developing Rich Internet Applications based on Adobe Flex 4 framework. It let's the reader to learn not only techniques of solving problems but also reasons behind them. In my opinion the Flex 4 Cookbook should be the most appropriate for intermediate Flex developers. There are a lot of code examples accompanying recipies which are ready to be taken advantage of in your applications. You can also find many references to additional on-line resources in this book allowing to suplement knowledge and understanding regarding a particular topic. The book is extremely useful and I recommend it to anyone who likes to have a solid off-line reference on the desk.
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