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.