I have built quite a few apps with Flex 2 over the last few years and have been using using a Java (JBoss) back end. I have a new requirement for an app which needs to be able to run on- and off-line and deliver an identical user experience. My limited understanding of AIR is that this is what it was intended to do, so I got FlexBuilder 3.
I have done all the sort of startup stuff that you would expect, like building an app from scratch and reading a collection of tutorials on the web and downloading a few sample apps, but I haven't yet come across a good resource for giving me the start I need. (Naively) I was expecting to be able to build a regular web-based flex app and then "deploy" it to AIR, with maybe some additional features in the AIR version to take advantage of it running on the desktop. Alternatively I was expecting to be able to take the AIR app and "deploy" it to the web as an SWF. I'm obviously missing some basic element of the AIR philosophy because I can't really see how to do either of these things. I suspect I just need some really obvious thing pointed out to me. Does anyone know of a good resource to introduce the AIR architecture and philosophy to Flex programmers?
