Working with the Adobe Integrated Runtime

In this section, we will download and install an AIR Software Development Kit (SDK) within Animate and configure a new AIR for Desktop document using the chosen SDK version.

AIR is simply one of the most amazingly flexible development platforms available. We went over the general history and usage of AIR in Chapter 2, Exploring Platform-Specific Considerations, but will really dive into building with the platform now. Since it's been a while, I suggest perhaps going back to that chapter to refresh your memory.

We are going to use AIR to build an image file browser application in this chapter. The user will be able to select a folder from their local filesystem, and any image files from that folder will display within a data grid. We'll write a bit of logic so that only image file types will be displayed in the grid. When the user chooses a file from the grid, the image will be rendered within the application.

The first...