Royale in a Week project

In this file I will lay out the table of contents of the old Flex in a Week series, and how I would adjust that order for a new "Royale in a Week" resource.

Although I gained a lot from Flex in a Week, I found some of its structure a little odd, or not in the ideal order. Beyond that, there are features of Royale, like strands and beads, that do not exist in the old material.

I am putting in italics all the entries in "Flex in a Week" that are not particularly relevant to Royale.

Flex in a Week

• Introduction

  • Welcome
  • Prerequisites
    • IDE
    • Other stuff...

• Day 1 - Introducing Flex

  • Introducing Flex and Flash
  • Flex in the client/server world
  • Setting up Flash Builder
  • Building a data-driven Flex application
  • Organizing visual elements and code

• Day 2 - Event and Data Basics

  • Understanding event-driven development
  • Retrieving remote data
  • Creating a typed data model

• Day 3 - Data Handling and Manipulation

  • Extending events
  • Sending remote data
  • Validating and formatting data
  • More about handling data

• Day 4 - Page Layout and Animation

  • Displaying data with the DataGroup container
  • Displaying data with List-based control
  • Creating and navigating "pages" in a UI
  • Animating components and states

• Day 5 - Adding Visual Appeal

  • Controlling text display
  • Styling the visual display
  • Skinning Spark components
  • Deploying Flex and Adobe Air applications

• Next steps

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Stuff to include in Royale in a Week

• Unit testing
• Migrating existing Flex apps / Emulation
• Incorporating JS libraries
• Style sheets

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Royale in a Week

• Prerequisites

  • IDE or comfort with command line
  • Git or other code repository
  • Website for testing
  • Appropriate Royale SDK

• Day 1 - Introducing Royale

  • Hello, Royale!
    • From Flex to Royale
    • How Apache Royale works
  • Why Royale?
  • Royale features
    • PAYG versus Just in Case
    • Strands and beads
  • Your development environment
  • Building a data-driven Royale application
  • Your project structure
  • Organizing visual elements and code

• Day 2 - Data Basics

  • Understanding event-driven development
  • Retrieving remote data
  • Creating a typed data model

Day 3 - Dynamic Data Display

• Extending events

• Sending remote data

• Validating and formatting data

• More about handling data

• Incorporating JS libraries

• Day 4 - User interface basics

  • Royale component sets
  • Displaying data with the DataGroup container
  • Displaying data with List-based control
  • Creating and navigating "pages" in a UI
  • States

• Day 4 - Adding Visual Appeal

  • CSS and styling
  • Transitions, dynamic displays
  • Localization

• Day 5 - Testing, error handling, security

• Next steps