JavaFX Essentials : Create Amazing Java Gui Applications With This Hands-on, Fast-paced Guide

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.

Mohamed Taman

Mohamed Taman, chief of architects and software development manager at e-finance, lives in Cairo, Egypt. He graduated in electrical engineering from Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University. He is an experienced Java developer who has worked on the Web, mobile, and IoT for industries, including finance, banking, tourism, government, and healthcare. Before that, he worked with Pfizer, Intercom Enterprise (a Gold IBM partner), Silicon Expert, and Oracle using varied technologies, such as user-facing GUI frontends, backends, mid-tiers, and integrations of large-scale systems. He enjoys speaking at many conferences evangelizing Java standards and his experience worldwide, as he is a strong Java community member and a Java Champion since 2015. In addition, Mohamed is a member of Adopts Java EE 8, OpenJDK, and JavaFX programs. He was an executive member of Java Community Process Organisation, being the first African to join its board. He is also a member of the expert group JSR 354, 363, and 373. He is also the leader of EGJUG and MoroccoJUG member, a board member of Oracle Egypt Architects Club. He won the 2014 Duke's choice and 11th annual JCP adopt 2013 awards. You can read more about the author at http://about.me/mohamedtaman.