Titanium Development

This Week in Titanium Mobile Development: 03 Jan 2012

Jan 04

jeffTitanium Mobile 1 Comment

This is all the Titanium Mobile development news I’ve gathered from the Twittersphere and Interwebs for the past week – Happy 2012!

News

With the update to 1.8 last week, Appcelerator has updated their documentation around common.js. A must read as this is the way things are going in the Ti world.

Handshake 2.0 posted a fun article called JavaScript Is a Plain-Belly Sneetch about their use of JavaScript in mobile apps using Titanium. A quick, fun read.

Tips

Appcelerator reblogged a posting from IRL Gaming on JSONDB – NoSQL DB for your mobile apps. Worth a read is you missed it the first time around.

Aaron Saunders has been buzy again sharing his thoughts and code on Cocoafish integration in a series of postings:
- Titanium Appcelerator Quickie: Cocoafish Native iOS Module
- Titanium Appcelerator Quickie: Cocoafish API Module
- a slide deck explaining why he thinks platforms like CocoaFish are important in mobile development (I agree!)
- Titanium Appcelerator Quickie: Cocoafish Native Module + Facebook Integration

The Warper Coder shared his experience on Appcelerator Titanium commonJS & Global Variables with the move to 1.8.

Sharry over at Learning Titanium posted three new articles:
- an interview with Tim Poulsen from Appcelerator on Training & Certification
- an interview with 5 developers (including yours truly) on native module development
- A cross posting with Ben Bahrenburg from bencoding.com on Adding BackgroundModes to your Titanium Project

Ben Bahrenburg also posted a quick tutorial on getting the KitchenSink running on the Kindle Fire.

Cam Collins posted his day 1 experience with iOS and Titanium. Good to see the day one experience with Appcelerator is so seamless now!

Rafael Kellermann Streit shared a mini-browser for Titanium Appcelerator. One line to add a browser in your app. Nice.

A gist of the animation like used in the LinkedIn app (iOS only)
Also, a ‘SmartLabel’ that will detect phone numbers, etc and link them for you – code and demo.

toru0325 shared a Window 7 Metro interface for Titanium. (iOS only) More than a little awesome.

Apps

Paris4 – everything you need to know about the #4 district in Paris.

iVillage Red Carpet Fever – track awards season for your favorite stars.

If you’ve got any news, tips, or apps I’ve missed, please leave them in the comments below!

Jeff