News

Titanium Support for iOS 7 is coming!

What iOS 7 hints at for broader mobility – A look at what the new iOS version brings.

Upcoming ACS changes to user session and geo query.

Tips

Aaron Saunders:
- Alloy ListView & Facebook Friends
- Swizzling TiExceptionHandler to better capture issues with iOS apps.
- Quick Way to work with Models & Alloy in Appcelerator Titanium – View the slides.

Building a custom front-end to ACS using Node.ACS [Part 2]

Mads Møller: Using Twitter API 1.1 for Titanium

Building An iPhone App With Appcelerator Titanium Part 6.

Ti Flat UI Sample – A flat UI example.

Modules and Widgets

Android System Info Module – for basic Android sytem info.

Appcelerator Titanium Video Cloud Slider [Paid]

Bob Sims: Simple x-platform Alloy widget for streaming YouTube videos with the native Ti.Media.VideoPlayer

Raul Riera: SwipeTableView Alloy plugin 1.0. Here is a video demo.

Apps

Latest app spotlight: a cool soccer app (SV Waldhof Mannheim)

Brasil 2013 – An app built for theconfederations cup in Brazil this year.

Take a look at the Spritual Mix app built using Alloy.

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News

Appcelerator CTO says that soon all development will be Mobile.

TiShadow V1.0 is now available and has a new home!

Catch the UWM Spotlight on Excellence: App Brewery <– Love this!

tiConf US is getting closer and the website have been updated share the speakers list and agenda with you all. Get you tickets!

Gartner-Appcelerator Webinar: Transforming Your Enterprise with Mobile.

Tips

Using the cool new Reveal App in Titanium Mobile for iOS.

Introducing the hardware build button for Titanium Studio. Everyone needs one.

The Denver meetup had a preso on Continuous Integration for Titanium using Jasmine specs (tests) and Jenkins as buildserver.

Here’s an upcoming performance boost in the TiAlloy compile process – it’s an option to disable source map generation.

Overview of the Appcelerator Titanium platform for Mobile Down South 2013 in Eindhoven.

Building An iPhone App With Appcelerator Titanium Part 5.

Get slides (and video) on Titanium TiAlloy as delivered at The Dutch Mobile Conference 2013.

Quick example of registering a URLScheme in a Titanium app using TiApp.xml without info.plist file. Check out the video as well for an example of Transferring images between Titanium apps using URL schemes.

Raul Riera give us SlideIn.js for a “slideIn” animation for Alloy. (It also works on regular Ti)

Simple build configuration to remove unimportant log calls if the build type is production.

Here’s how to create a transition a background image using Titanium. The site is in Spanish.

Modules and Widgets

Manatee Works as announced the availability of the mobiScan SDK for Appcelerator Titanium to give you barcode scanning functionality.

Apps

The tiConf US 2013 app is out now and it is also available on Android.

Marco Luque is an app for a Spanish Comedian. It gives you showtimes, a personal profile and even lets you know when he is in the area.

Take a look at the Alloy example app built at the DMC 2013 tutorial day.

An iOS/Android version of Ruzzle proof of concept – built in 3 hours!

The BigApp is a new way to experience BigStuf™ Camps in Panama City Beach and Daytona Beach, Florida. Also available on iOS.

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News

Silicon Angle had lots of coverage on Appcelerator:
- Appcelerator Enterprise Platform Launch Wrap-Up
- Open Source is a Mindset, says Appcelerator CEO
- Appcelerator’s Michael King On Mobile Business Opportunities

Webinar: Imagine the Possibilities of Enterprise Mobility.

Tips

TiSprite: create simple sprite animations across both Android and iOS

Alloy: How to bind a view to an existing model

Fokke Zandbergen: tests show ‘singletap’ is the event to listen to for many repetitive taps.

Jason Kotchoff enhanced Raul Riera’s XHR (a wrapper around Titanium’s HTTPClient) to obey HTTP ‘NOT MODIFIED’ headers.

Adam Renklint shared a small gist to separate Backbone’s View into a Controller and Presenter.

Looking to make a Titanium module more Javascript-ish? Andrew Glover explains how with “Callbacks in Appcelerator Titanium Modules”

Adam Paxton: Adding Custom Android Action Bar and Holo Themes.

Learn how to build a custom front-end to ACS using Node.ACS.

Continuous Mobile Innovation: how to manage the entire mobile lifecycle [Appcelerator Whitepaper - registration required]

Modules and Widgets

Daniel Sefton releases his Slider Menu Widget v2 for Titanium Alloy with a new blog post.

SculeJS – a fully featured DBMS written in JavaScript that emulates the functionality of MongoDB – is now in beta.  2kb smaller, 10x faster.

Apps

I released the What Should I Wear? App for Android and iOS to the USA app stores.

Not new, but Mashable featured some Titanium built travel Apps on iOS.

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News

The new Titanium SDK/Studio 3.1.1 Release Candidate is now available for download. It has additional support features and they’ve made a few API changes.

Appcelerator platform launch! Loads of great demos to help illustrate the power of using Titanium.
- Here’s a recap of the live stream for the Appcelerator Platform Launch in case you missed it.
- [Press Release] Appcelerator launched the only Enterprise SaaS Platform Built From the Ground Up for Mobile.
- Appcelerator brings real-time analytics to its mobile app platform.
- Appcelerator is now targeting firms that develop mobile apps with their new Enterprise Platform.

Here’s a look at the Rule of Three for Enterprise Mobile Apps from Michael King.

Tips

Here is how to update to Android r22 Tools for additional functionality. However, it has been recommended that you hold off with it unless really necessary.

O’Rielly Webcast by John Anderson author of Appcelerator Titanium: Up and Running on Tuesday.

Pavlibeis shared example code he wrote for using RunKeeper API with Titanium Appcelerator.

Catch part 3 of Building An iPhone App Using Appcelerator Titanium. [Video]

David Bankier added object “spies” to TiShadow so you can modify them from repl at runtime: Here is the Alloy jmk file to automatically inject spies on $ in the controllers.

FOKKE ZANDBERGEN has been buzy:
- App (Store) locality – setting the default language for an iOS app.
- TiShadow clean-up for Alloy
- Information on his Rate my App module!

Modules and Widgets

Matt Tuttle shared an module wrapping the Google analytics SDK for both iPhone and Android platforms.

Easypost Titanium is an easypost client for mobile apps.

Apps

iProspectus: More than just a mobile college prospectus for students.

Here’s an interview from the creators of Ti built ArtistBox. There’s loads of details on building their in-depth and elegant app.

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News

New competition by TiConf US 2013, Win the full set of Appcelerator Titanium books courtesy of Packtpub.

The Evolution of Mobile in the Enterprise – a blog on the cross framework platform by Appcelerator VP of Engineering, Neeraj Gupta! Worth a look.

Tips

There are some fairly significant updates to TiJasmine (Jasmine wrapper for Titanium) and birthed v1.0.0

Dev blog: Learn how to easily use cloud services to create a back-end(ACS) for your app.

Use Node.ACS to create mobile-optimised web services to help you leverage remote data sources.

Justin Lee forked TiShadow to create TiSnippet – a collaborative version of TiShadow.

Daniel Tamas shared SugarTi – a minimalist CLI to run titanium projects on simu & deploy on device without iTunes. Any feedback is welcome..

Catch Building an iPhone app with Appcelerator Titanium Part 2 from GeorgeWebDesign. A video that covers the structure of code and couple best practices.

Aaron Saunders gives us a first attempt at using promises with Appcelerator Titanium. Here are what what promises are.

Improve your efficiency by using these Titanium Studio shortcut keys <- Great Stuff!

Modules and Widgets

AlloyActionJackson – Android Action Bar examples for Alloy.

ViewScrollr Pro – Lets you add creative banners to your app (on CodeCanyon)

Cross-platform Alloy widget for grid layouts by Pablorr18 on Github.

A new Alloy Rest SQL Adapter provides support for parsing a nested object.

Apps

“Touchslate” – for fast translations on the go!

See how Ketan Majmudar used Appcelerator in NASA’s International Space app Challenge! <- Link of the Week

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News

Appcelerator has requested developers to Review ListView Phase 2 specifications. This is a new higher performance TableView replacement.

Tips

Tony Lukasavage gives us a way to compare JSON serializable JS objects.

Titanium Youtube Player lets you play YouTube videoclips directly in your app – no WebView required.

Kevin Whinnery shows us how to deploy with TiShadow anytime a JS file changes.

Modules and Widgets

Ricardo Alcocer created widget for an Android ActionBar emulator (Work in Progress)

Apps

Prospex Athletic Training System is a app for athletes that want to boost their potential.

The review of Box’z 7×7 (in Turkish), but you can take a look the app for some fun brain training

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News

Appcelerator Adds Oracle Support via a new module.

Lanica have expanded their Platino Beta access – Audition for the part!

Tips

Jason Kneen: Quick gist to do rotation from portrait to landscape in TSS with Alloy.

Ricardo Alcocer shared a tip for Android developers – Get output of console.log on the Terminal.

Fokke Zandbergen shows how you can use TiAlloy constants, helpers and globals in plain vanilla Titanium projects with just 2 lines of code.

See Javier Arturo Rodríguez’s talk from a BarcelonaJS session about Appcelerator Titanium.

Titanium4j 3.1 is out, and it’s got some new features to play with.

Modules and Widgets

Check back next week

Apps

Read about the impressive Lark Cookbook app – a Titanium built app funded from a Kickstarter campaign.

Artist Box is a great way to collect and share your favourite music.

The T-10 app was built for the spaceapps challenge and it lets you know when the ISS is overhead.

Take Appcelerator’s new App Showcase for a spin! See many of the cool apps built by the Titanium developer community and Submit your own.

Tennis Coach WVC is an app for monitoring Tennis Matches using graphics and video capture. (Dutch)

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News

Celebrating 450,000 mobile devs! Appcelerator gives thanks and takes a look at how far they’ve come so far.

Check out the Appcelerator April Developer newsletter.

The Dev blog posted a interview with OpenRest. With the help of Titanium, they have built hundreds of apps that use their online ordering system.

Appcelerator CEO Jeff Haynie has a video from the Silicon-Valley-Bank-CEO-Summit. He comments on the history of Appcelerator and has some advice for Startups.

No More Ugly Enterprise Apps. An Appcelerator webinar on continuous mobile innovation.

Tips

Add your custom iOS fonts via tiapp.xml to save you from editing your Info.plist.

Dill Dawson gives us another reason why Appcelerator Titanium custom modules comes in handy for performance.

Making it easy to port your apps to TiZen: A promotion from appbackr for Titanium developers.

A Vine like camera trick that allows you to record video and includes a progress bar.

Here’s a plug-and-play CommonJS social sharing library for Titanium.

A gist of a Alloy and Firefox OS cross-domain http quick hack.

Javascript objects and arrays for beginners using Appcelerator Titanium.

New Titanium Book published from Darren Cope: Application Development by Example Beginner’s Guide.

Simple PHP script to find unused styles in your Titanium Mobile Alloy Project.

John Jardin shared his Chapter 2: Understanding the Titanium Framework on his blog.

Modules and Widgets

Newly added “SearchForPlaces” Alloy widget at Alloylove.com.

A simple TiAlloy widget for creating an easy-to-style and set-up a loading mask.

A CommonJS module to spin a view in Titanium.

Want to use RTWworld with Appcelerator Titanium? It’s now available on Android and iOS.

Apps

None this week that I know of

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News

Titanium 3.1 and Node.ACS Production Releases are available! You can review all the changes as well as download the latest version of the software and the additional modules. Lots of changes!

Tips

Here’s a tiJasmine module for Appcelerator Titanium cretaed by Bill Dawson.

Boydlee’s Slides for “Appcelerator Titanium – Best Practices, Tricks & Tips” from TitaniumNL (Amsterdam) available online.

Dev Blog: Learn how to extend Titanium’s ScrollableView with Focus and Blur listeners to improve app performance.

Use TiStudio for PHP, Ruby or Python? See how to re-enable them in the latest 3.1 Studio release.

Now you can make an Android emulator as fast as an iOS one by optimizing for x86 images and give your dev time a huge performance gain.

Building native apps from JavaScript using Appcelerator Titanium – Catch Andy Oram’s interview with John Anderson. (MP3)

Link of the Week! Using Rasberry Pi, Python, and Titanium for Home Automation So Cool.

Convert CSV files to JSON with tiCSONV for Titanium.

Modules and Widgets

TiHelp.Me posted a ViewScrollr – a Free Titanium ScrollableView Module.

Apps

The DiezFM radio app is available in the App Store, for an example of live radio streaming.

Check out Hostus, for a restaurant iPad app that helps make table reservations.

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The new Titanium SDK/Studio 3.1.0 Release Candidate is now available. Lots of changes so check out the release notes.

From Appcelerator: Native vs. HTML5: looked at objectively, the debate is over. Blog post by Appcelerator VP of Products, Jonathan Rende [Note: Not really objective]

Tips

Evan Gower posted an example for Displaying Charts with Titanium.

Tony Lukasavage on inspecting SQLite databases on Android and iOS.

Rick White from Fuzzy White: Why We use the Titanium Platform.

Here’s an Alloy example of how to use the Android ActionBar feature.

How to embed a youtube video in an app using a webview.

A book on “Titanium Mobile” (German) is now available on iTunes and Kindle.

TiCons: Generate all your Appcelerator Titanium and TiAlloy icons and splash screens from just 2 files: <- Link of the Week!

John Jardin on Installing Titanium.

Create your own Titanium build plugins, hooks, and commands in SDK 3.x.x. Very cool.

Using custom Holo Theme in Android applications.

Boydlees’ Introduction to Titanium slides from Ireland’s Titanium meetup are available online.

Modules and Widgets

Ben Bahrenburg updated his Securely Properties module to add file encryption on iOS.

TiRadioButtonGroup is a skinnable RadioButtonGroup for iOS & Android.

Apps

SnapDash is a new Snap-and-Dash App for fun with photos on the fly.

Appcelerator’s Featured Developers are Roman and Cristian Castillo, catch their interview on the Dev Blog.

Chimp is an iOS client for the social network APP.NET

MyLondonBus also just went live on the app store.

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