Arno Gourdol, Director of Engineering, Flash Runtime Foundation

Foreword

Building engaging experiences for stand-alone applications is much harder than it should be. With Adobe AIR, we give developers and designers a tool to turn their ideas into applications quickly and easily. As new mobile platforms emerged, we have extended the reach of our customers by bringing AIR to those platforms. Véronique’s book is a great introduction to everything you need to know to use AIR to build some awesome applications, taking advantage of some of the new capabilities available on mobile platforms, like geolocation, touch, and other sensors. Now get coding!