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Creating a AIR Web Service Package with Flash and AS3- Base Service Class And Simple Twitter API

In this series of tutorials, you will learn the basics of architecting a simple but powerful Web Services Package. We'll start off by creating a class which will be the base of all our services and then continue to create a very simple Twitter API.

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How to build a contact manager in AIR using XML - Part 2

In this second, and final, part we'll be learning how to save and edit the file and how to setup the bindings between the xml and our component.

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Creating A Downloader For YouTube with Flex/Air

YouTube’s mixed easy movie access with community uploads to create a startling new service. The online problem is that you can only access YouTube when you are online. How can you access those movies when you are offline? Let’s solve that problem by building a downloader with Flex and AIR. In this article we will build a cross platform application that searches for YouTube videos and then provides a mechanism to download those videos and view them locally. You will be able to take your favorite YouTube videos with you wherever you go.

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How to build a contact manager in AIR using XML

This will be the first part of our first tutorial: How to build a contact manager in AIR using XML. For the first part of this tutorial we’ll be reading, parsing and searching an XML into an AIR application and going through the whole getting it to compile and exporting a release version.

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