Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers

Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers – Pocket Guide
Mike Chambers, Robert L. Dixon, and Jeff Swartz
O’Reilly Media
ISBN: 0-596-51391-7
Non-Fiction, Computer
Reviewed by Alain B. Renaud

In demand to the growing interest, O’Reilly Media brings you this new and exciting official guide on using your web development skills in building RIAs for the desktop with the Alpha release of Apollo, the innovative cross-platform desktop runtime from Adobe Labs. Written by members of the Apollo product team, this pocket guide will show you, as Flex developers, all the tricks of the trade to successfully bring your applications to Apollo. You will learn how to extend them to the desktop which will serve as a compliment to their web applications. As Laurie Petrycki, the General Manager of O’Reilly Media states, “It’s exciting to be able to help developers understand how to bring RIAs from the Internet to the desktop with Apollo and Flex.”
Truer words could not have been spoken as this handy resource will explain in a logical fashion a variety of important tools to learn. Some of these topics include setting up your development environment, creating your first application, using the File I/O API, how to best use HTML within Flex-based Apollo applications, and using the included Apollo mini-cookbook for common tasks among many more.
I found this book to deliver exactly, and so much more, of what it promised to do. Written in a clear and concise manner, I think that everyone with an interest in Apollo will definitely benefit. I particularly appreciated the various examples listed to help those who want to begin building RIAs for the desktop. This is the ideal reference for Apollo and I look forward to using it whenever I have specific questions in the future.