You use the classes provided by the Adobe AIR file system API to access the file system of the host computer. Using these classes, you can access and manage directories and files, create directories and files, write data to files, and so on. Information on understanding and using the File API classes is available in the following categories:

Contents

• AIR file basics
• Working with File objects
• Getting file system information
• Working with directories
• Working with files
• Reading and writing files

Quick Starts (Adobe AIR Developer Center)

• Building a text-file editor
• Building a directory search application
• Reading and writing from an XML preferences file
• Compressing files and data

Language Reference

• File
• FileStream
• FileMode

More information

• Adobe AIR Developer Center for Flex (search for 'AIR filesystem')