InSync: Automatic Offline Data Synchronization in AIR using LCDS 2.6

LCDS 2.6 allows you to build AIR applications with automatic offline data synchronization. This feature leverages the SQLite relational database system embedded in the AIR runtime, but the advantage is that the data synchronization process is entirely automatic: you don’t have to write SQL statements or synchronization logic to keep your local database in sync with your central database.

I have been getting a number of questions related to this feature, so I decided to build a sample application that demonstrates how it works.
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Offline Synchronization using AIR and LiveCycle Data Services

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As part of my MAX talks in Chicago and Barcelona, I used a simple Contact Manager application to demonstrate offline synchonization using AIR and LiveCycle Data Services (LCDS). Many people have asked me to share the code, so here it is… This is actually an update of an application I posted a few months ago (but that didn’t include the offline synchronization part at the time).

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Salesbuilder for Flex 3 / AIR Beta 2 (AIR file + source code)

I migrated the Salesbuilder application for Flex 3 / AIR beta 2.

Click here to install the application.

Click here to download the source code.

Follow this script for a guide tour of the application.