JavaFX Essentials

Create amazing Java GUI applications with this hands-on, fast-paced guide

About This Book

• Develop amazing gestures –based applications and an interactive JavaFX application powered by leap motion devices
• Get in touch with the right tools to rapidly develop your JavaFX application and give you essential hands-on experience with JavaFX 8
• A step-by-step guide with examples to help you develop applications

Who This Book Is For

If you are a Java developer, an experienced Java Swing, Flash/Flex, SWT, or web developer looking to take your client-side applications to the next level, this book is for you.

What You Will Learn

• Deliver complex, compelling, and high performance JavaFX 8 applications with new impressive Java SE 8 core features and enhancements
• Run JavaFX applications on embedded devices such as Raspberry Pi
• Use Scene Builder to create and define UI screens graphically and save them as JavaFX FXML-formatted files
• Develop amazing gesture-based applications and an interactive touchless JavaFX application with Leap motion devices
• Get hands-on knowledge about mobile development and create native JavaFX applications for Apple iOS and Android platforms
• Use JavaFX with an Arduino board to develop desktop applications to monitor data coming from the real world or control real devices

In Detail

JavaFX is a software platform to create and deliver rich Internet applications (RIAs) that can run across a wide variety of devices.

JavaFX Essentials will help you to design and build high performance JavaFX 8-based applications that run on a variety of devices.

Starting with the basics of the framework, it will take you all the way through creating your first working application to discovering the core and main JavaFX 8 features, then controlling and monitoring your outside world. The examples provided illustrate different JavaFX and Java SE 8 features.

This guide is an invaluable tutorial if you are planning to develop and create JavaFX 8 applications to run on a variety of devices and platforms.

使用這本實用且節奏快的指南，創建令人驚艷的Java GUI應用程式。

關於本書：
- 開發令人驚艷的基於手勢的應用程式，以及由Leap Motion設備驅動的互動式JavaFX應用程式。
- 掌握快速開發JavaFX應用程式所需的正確工具，並獲得JavaFX 8的實踐經驗。
- 提供逐步指南和示例，幫助您開發應用程式。

本書適合對象：
- 如果您是Java開發人員，有經驗的Java Swing、Flash/Flex、SWT或Web開發人員，並希望將客戶端應用程式提升到更高水平，那麼本書適合您。

您將學到的內容：
- 使用新的令人印象深刻的Java SE 8核心功能和增強功能，開發複雜、引人入勝且高性能的JavaFX 8應用程式。
- 在嵌入式設備（如Raspberry Pi）上運行JavaFX應用程式。
- 使用Scene Builder以圖形方式創建和定義UI畫面，並將其保存為JavaFX FXML格式的文件。
- 開發基於手勢的應用程式和使用Leap Motion設備的無觸控JavaFX應用程式。
- 獲得有關移動開發的實踐知識，並為Apple iOS和Android平台創建原生JavaFX應用程式。
- 使用Arduino板與JavaFX一起開發桌面應用程式，以監控來自現實世界的數據或控制真實設備。

詳細內容：
JavaFX是一個軟體平台，用於創建並提供可以在各種設備上運行的豐富互聯網應用程式（RIA）。

《JavaFX Essentials》將幫助您設計和構建高性能的基於JavaFX 8的應用程式，並在各種設備上運行。

從框架的基礎知識開始，本書將引導您創建第一個可運行的應用程式，並探索JavaFX 8的核心功能，然後控制和監控外部世界。提供的示例演示了不同的JavaFX和Java SE 8功能。

如果您計劃開發和創建可在各種設備和平台上運行的JavaFX 8應用程式，本指南將是一本寶貴的教程。