Archive for February, 2012

This is all the Titanium Mobile development news I’ve gathered from the Twittersphere and Interwebs for the past week.

News

Built with Titanium is a new community site where you can showcase your work developed on Titanium.

Appcelerator was mentioned in an interesting Mashable article if you are looking for their view on mobile app development and where it’s heading.

Tips

Aaron Saunders provided a neat Titanium quickie to help you create a transition effect for your splash screen / home page in an iPhone app.

This node.js based command line interface driver for non-Studio users and usable interface for continuous integration.

Brice Lechâtellier shared his experience on Augmented Reality Markers with Appcelerator Titanium based on work done by Atsushi Kataoka. Cool stuff.

Get the Titanium UIStepper Module from BenCoding.com for accessibility to UIStepper – a new pre-built control in iOS 5 for incrementing or decrementing a value.

Kevin Whinnery continues Newbie Tuesday with Hybrid App Basic Part 1 on the Appcelerator blog.

@dezinezync shared a video of an expanding text area made using only JavaScript. He also shared a TiDZLabel hack that allows you to create labels with bold ‘in them’ using the native Ti.UI.createLabel. Lastly, he shared TiWinSlider – a quick implementation for sliding windows like the ones found in the Facebook iOS and Path iOS app.

Building the Community App on the Appcelerator blog gives some useful insight into the Appcelerator developer community and app building best practices.

Apps

With CD collection you can easily manage your own CDs.

London 2012 Games is very simple and easy to use app for those looking for information on upcoming 2012 Olympic Games.

The JoHo app brings the most relevant information and services of St. Joseph’s Hospital on your iPhone. The original article is in German but if you use Chrome it should offer to translate it for you.

GigBoss is a app for musicians to help store set information about their songs, lyrics, and even midi controller settings for specific instruments.

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

Jeff

This is all the Titanium Mobile development news I’ve gathered from the Twittersphere and Interwebs for the past week.

News

Jeff Haynie gave a keynote presentation at the Mobile Developer Conference 2012 in Hamburg, Germany. Check out the slides!

VentureWire commented on the addition of seasoned executive Sandeep Johri to Appcelerator as its first-ever COO. You can also read the Press Release.

Appcelerator is selected as a finalist for an Edison Award in the Business/Communications category.

Ben Bahrenburg is interviewed as developer of the week, see what he has to say in Sharry Stowell’s DevCenter Blog Post.

Carl Orthlieb is the new VP of Engineering and shares a great post on the future of how the development and QA of Titanium will be working in 2012. Sounds awesome.

NBC and Appcelerator were highlighted on Mashable in an article covering the pros and cons of cross-platform app design.

The on-demand version of the Appcelerator Cocoafish webinar is now available on appcelerator.com. Check it out as this is going to change everything.

Tips

iOS Muncher gives us a tutorial on how to call Drupal WebService through Titanium using Json.

John the Coder shares BenchPress – A JavaScript benchmark suite for Titanium derived from the V8 benchmark suite.

ads.js is a script that allows you to use both iAds and Admob in the same place within a Titanium iOS project. It also works with the ti.admob module.

AppCodingEasy show us how to add Titanium Push Notification without 3rd a party service.

Kevin Whinnery posted another useful DevCenter Blog Post – Newbie Tuesday: WebView with remote HTML.

Catch Sharry Stowell’s interview with Matt Apperson on learningtitanium.com.

Weird rocketry gives an alternative way to Preparing AdHoc distribution in Titanium Mobile using Xcode.

My Favorite of the week: Episode 22 of Tony Lukasavage’s Forging Titanium: Path-like Menu. SO COOL!

@rafaelks updated his MiniBrowser to support Internationalization, hiding the toolbar and much more.

Get more details on the Internationalization of App Names on the Titanium blog.

A request from Appcelerator not to use Xcode 4.3 and Titanium until support becomes available for it. Apple introduced lots of ‘breaking changes’.

Kevin Whinnery (@kevinwhinnery) will soon be making his post about this, but you can get a rough app structure for Appcelerator Titans App to check out current best practices.

Apps

J23 Stay up-to-date with the latest Jordan Brand release dates, models, and pricing.

Foxys Grill is an app built specifically for the restaurant based in Brighton, UK. You can access menu’s and takeaways directly off your phone.

CrowdGame Trivially is the customizable real-time quiz game that turns your iPad into a portable game console for up to 11 players.

The Butler’s Tale is a great app to help you navigate your way around commercial contract terms.

The Dutch Salvation Army app with wholesome soup recipes , built on Titanium.

Check out this Enforex Spain Pocket Guide.

Hundeskove is a neat app that helps you find places to take your dog for a walk.

SNEAK PEEK – New Titanium showcase site – builtwithtitanium.com from learningTi.com.

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

Jeff

This is all the Titanium Mobile development news I’ve gathered from the Twittersphere and Interwebs for the past week.

News

The big news of the week is Appcelerator acquires Cocoafish to add cloud capabilities to their repertoire of mobile functions to create Appcelerator Cloud services. Get a bit more detail on the acquisition of Cocoafish on the Appcelerator blog. Techcrunch has a great article on the progress appcelerator has made since it started and includes some more insight from Jeff Haynie on his choices for Appcelerator. In case you need more consolidation on the reasoning behind the new addition, take a look at this article from gigaom.com

Put your skills to the test and take up the Appcelerator developer challenge to win up to $5k. They are giving away the cash to the developer that can hack a titanium app using Box.

Tips

TiDemoKit is a clone of Google’s ADK DemoKit app by using Titanium with the ADK module – A cool example of Android taking to hardware.

Want to use the native iOS5 Dictionary in your Titanium Mobile app? The new benCoding.Dictionary module makes it easy to put this functionality into any Titanium app that targets iOS5 or higher. And his Titanium SMS Module helps you add SMS functionality to your iOS apps.

Dawson Toth updated his social.js module for SDK 1.8.1. It gives you social media sharing from your Titanium app.

Nyvra shared a custom Progress View that sets loading, success and error statuses with just three lines of code.

Alistair McIntyre wrote up a quick tutorial on displaying a users current location in a Mapview on his blog.

There is a new feature on the Appcelerator blog called ‘Newbie Tuesday’. This week, Kevin Whinnery covers scrollable content using a ScrollView.

Interested in adding real-time communications to your App? PubNub has posted an example video on Vimeo showing their Easy App Communications with PubNub. I’ve been using PubNub for a current project and it sure is easy.

After a small break, Tony Lukasavage is back with Forging Titanium Episode 21: Box Module for Cloud Storage.

The Appcelerator blog outlines SQL encryption and Full-text indexing to allow AES encrypted databases using SQLCipher.

Get the essentials on App testing to make sure you get the most of your work and ensure that every release is 100% ready.

@skypanther Tweets a neat trick for when ADB hangs. You can restart it without closing the emulator.

Download the taffyDB flatfile mod to get some neat saving a retrieval functions to help you manipulate small data.

Apps

The Mohawk Group Catalog commercial flooring search that allows you to view products and their coordinates, order samples and email product ideas to colleagues and clients.

Comedysportz UK is a fast-paced comedy improvisation troupe and this official comedy improv suggestificiation tool allows you to interact with the games

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

Jeff