Archive for March, 2012

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

News

The Appcelerator/IDC Mobile Developer Report for Q1 2012 was released last week and there are some interesting trends taking place, especially with interest in HTML5 and declining interest in Android.

Tips

Javier Rayón from Criteria Studio spoke to Learning Titanium about his DOMO app that allows you to communicate with hardware appliances in your home.

Mobile Gaming is going to be huge in the near future and you need to get in on the action now. Sharry shares his views on gaming with Titanium on the appcelerator Dev Blog.

Micah Silverman – How I wrote an iPhone App in less than 24 hours wi Titanium.
Part 1: The Background
Part 2: The Design
The complete project is detailed throughout the rest of the week.

Now you can get Console.Log Support in Titanium with this simple hack.

Image configurations for Titanium Apps – Here is a useful chart that highlights image sizes for App icons and Loading screens on both iOS and Android.

Jean Luc David’s blog had some useful posts last week. These two are particularly useful:

• Setting up Titanium for iPhone in 4 easy steps
• Troubleshooting Titanium and iOS 5.1

The ClearlyInnovative Blog posted an Appcelerator quickie that lets you use the where clause in the Parse API

warpedAR is an application which allows you to build an effective Augmented Reality Solution using the Titanium framework.

Apps

Larryville KU this app keeps you posted on what is happening in and around Lawrence, Kansas.

The Cortina d’Ampezzo Tourist Guide dedicated to the Queen of the Dolomites. Full tourist information when you download the app.

Simple shooter game powered by Titanium with QuickTiGame2d: it has only 100 lines of JavaScript code! It is in Japanese, so you may need to hit the translate button to get more details.

Capture images on your Android phone using the HTC Scribe Pen and Titanium

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 coding chick – Frances Advincula – has some insight on the benefits of Titanium for students and beginners.

Tips

This is a neat little tool to convert a Webkit-gradient to a Titanium Mobile Gradient.

David Bankier was inspired by Adobe Shadow to create TiShadow for titanium using node.js and socketIO to create code snippets in a browser and render the code across all iOS and Android devices. You can view how it works in this demo video. He then gave a full post on Forging Titanium Episode 23: TiShadow.

David Bankier also shared TiHighlight for on device coding for appcelerator Titanium. It lets you switch between JavaScript and CoffeeScript, to help you write code on the fly.

The Titanium Ninja Olivier Morandi details how profiling Titanium Apps is possible. Unfortunately, it is only for iOS for the time being, but so, so awesome. I hope to see in this in Titanium core sometime.

Christian Sullivan shared Fuse – Globally Available Objects, Namespaces and Node.js Style EventEmitters for Titanium Mobile. Currently only for iOS.

QuickTiGame2d – A 2D Gaming Module for appcelerator titanium now supports tiled map. The New video by @infosia shows you how it works.

The Appcelerator Dev blog highlights a few compatibility issues using Xcode 4.3 with Titanium, and details 2 possible solutions for you.

Apps

Facetouch is a fun app that lets you add hats, wigs and other accessories to all your images shared on your favourite social media platforms.

Avoid worrying about what to eat with the Spinning Meals app. You plan out your meals for the entire week and get a grocery list to make sure you have everything.

Now you can learn Aikido techniques from your phone when you download it from the iStore.

Now you can solve Draw Something Drawings instantly with the Draw Something Helper.

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

Wenke Giezeman leads a two part skillswap project where a group of programmers and designers had to build an app from scratch using Titanium. You can follow the Conquer the App Store Report (in Dutch)

BitElm takes a look at choosing a mobile framework investigating Appcelerator Titanium

BestFit and Appcelerator co-hosted the Mobile Rodeo 2012 at SXSW. Yeehaw!

The Climote app built in Titanium was shortlisted for a global Appy Award in the utilities category.

Tips

Boydlee gives his first impressions after using Cocoafish and Titanium for the last few weeks, listing the pros and cons of his experience.

The Why’s and why not’s of how not to Structure for large Titanium apps is covered in nice detail on Zenbrogium.

David Bankier shows us how to create a Custom SplitApartView UI similar to the way it works on iOS when you open an application group.

Tomas Persson’s blog post about bringing the Android ViewPager module to Appcelerator Android Apps.

TiTouchDB is an Appcelerator Titanium module which wraps TouchDB, the lightweight, CouchDB-compatible database suitable for embedding into mobile apps.

Ti Amazon S3 is an example app that allows you to upload media files directly to an Amazon S3 bucket, instead of routing requests through a proxy server, via Amazon’s REST API. It also shows how commonJS can be used to build scalable Titanium applications.

Per Olesen details how to get started with Titanium Module Development for iOS.

benCoding.com have an updated blog post on using #titanium to access the private documents folder in iOS.

Apps

My Memory Game is a fun game that can help train your memory for all ages.

Take a look at this German Todo App to give you some ideas.

Photoro allows you to link photos to a specific place on a map allowing you to create a new perspective on your travel experience.

OpenWalletApp- Powered by Appcelerator Titanium was created on the Startup Bus on the way to SXSW.

Bumblepix allows you to create, edit and share events where you get to add images and video files to your event so that everyone can enjoy it.

Take a listen to slow radio for love songs streaming over the internet. An example of how Titanium can handle streaming media.

Mairdumont’s 123POI app allows you to discover your neighbourhood by creating points of interest in the app and then adding images to them. As soon as something close pops up you will be notified.

Designed expressly for SXSW attendees in Austin, the Eyejot vCard SXSW Edition makes sharing personal contact information fast, fun and, best of all, memorable.

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

Jeff