Book Description
You don’t need to know Objective C or Java to create native apps for iPhone and Android. All you need is some JavaScript or web development know-how and these superb 80+ recipes for Appcelerator Titanium.
- Leverage your JavaScript skills to write mobile applications using Titanium Studio tools with the native advantage!
- Extend the Titanium platform with your own native modules
- A practical guide for packaging and submitting your apps to both the iTunes store and Android Marketplace
- Part of Packt's Cookbook series: Each recipe is a carefully organized sequence of instructions to complete the task as efficiently as possible
In Detail
Appcelerator Titanium Mobile allows developers to realize their potential to develop full native iPhone and Android applications by using free Titanium Studio tools without the need to know Objective-C or Java. This practical hands-on cookbook shows you exactly how to leverage the Titanium API to its full advantage and become confident in developing mobile applications in no time at all.
Appcelerator Titanium Smartphone App Development Cookbook offers a set of practical and clear recipes with a step-by-step approach for building native applications for both the iPhone and Android platforms using your existing knowledge of JavaScript.
This cookbook takes a pragmatic approach to using your JavaScript knowledge to create applications for the iPhone and Android platforms, from putting together basic UIs to handling events and implementation of third party services such Twitter, Facebook and Push notifications. This book shows you how to utilize both remote and local datasources using XML, JSON and the SQLite database system. The topics covered will guide you to use popular Titanium Studio tools effectively and help you leverage all the advanced mobile features such as Geolocation, Accelerometer, animation and more. Finally, you’ll learn how to register developer accounts and how to publish your very own apps to the Android and Apple marketplaces.
Table of Contents
- Appcelerator Titanium Smartphone App Development Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- Appcelerator Titanium Smartphone App Development Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Building Apps using Native UI Components
- Introduction
- Building with Windows and Views
- Adding a TabGroup to your app
- Creating and formatting Labels
- Creating TextFields for user input
- Working with keyboards and keyboard toolbars
- Enhancing your App with Sliders & Switches
- Passing custom variables between windows
- Creating buttons and capturing click events
- Informing your users with dialogs and alerts
- Creating charts using Raphael JS
- 2. Working with Local and Remote Data Sources
- Introduction
- Reading data from remote XML through HTTPClient
- Displaying data using a TableView
- Enhancing your TableViews with custom rows
- Filtering the TableView using a SearchBar component
- Speeding up your remote data access using JSON and Yahoo! YQL
- Creating an SQLite database
- Saving data locally using an SQLite database
- Retrieving data from an SQLite database
- Creating a "pull and release" refresh mechanism
- 3. Integrating Google Maps and GPS
- Introduction
- Adding a MapView to your application
- Getting your current position using GeoLocation
- Converting addresses to latitude and longitude positions
- Adding annotations to your MapView
- Customizing annotations and capturing MapView events
- Drawing routes on your MapView
- Monitoring your heading using the device compass
- 4. Enhancing your Apps with Audio, Video, and the Camera
- Introduction
- Choosing your capture device using an OptionDialog
- Capturing photos from the camera
- Choosing existing photos from the photo library
- Displaying photos using ScrollableView
- Saving your captured photo to the device filesystem
- Capturing and playing audio via the audio recorder
- Capturing video via the video recorder
- Playing video files from the filesystem
- Safely deleting saved files from the filesystem
- 5. Connecting your Apps with Social Media and E-mail
- Introduction
- Composing and sending an e-mail
- Adding attachments to an e-mail
- Setting up a custom Facebook application
- Integrating Facebook into your Titanium App
- Posting on your Facebook wall
- Connecting to Twitter using OAuth
- Uploading an image using PHP and HttpRequest
- Sending a tweet through Birdhouse and OAuth
- 6. Getting to Grips with Events and Properties
- 7. Creating Animations, Transformations, and Understanding Drag-and-drop
- 8. Interacting with Native Phone Applications and APIs
- Introduction
- Creating an Android Options menu
- Accessing the contacts address book
- Storing and retrieving data via the clipboard
- Creating a background service on the iPhone
- Displaying local notifications on the iPhone
- Displaying Android notifications using intents
- Storing your Android app on the device's SD card
- 9. Integrating your Apps with External Services
- Introduction
- Connecting to APIs that use basic authentication
- Fetching data from the Google Places API
- Connecting to FourSquare using OAuth
- Posting a check-in to FourSquare
- Searching and retrieving data via Yahoo! YQL
- Integrating push notifications with UrbanAirship.com
- Testing push notifications using PHP and HTTP POST
- 10. Extending your Apps With Custom Modules
- Introduction
- Integrating an existing module—the PayPal Mobile Payment Library
- Preparing your iOS module development environment
- Developing a new iPhone module using XCode
- Creating a public API method
- Packaging and testing your module using the test harness
- Packaging your module for distribution and sale
- 11. Platform Differences, Device Information, and Quirks
- 12. Preparing your App for Distribution and Getting it Published
- Introduction
- Joining the iOS Developer Program
- Installing iOS Developer Certificates and Provisioning Profiles
- Build your app for iOS using Titanium Studio
- Joining the Google Android Developer Program
- Creating your application's distribution key
- Building and submitting your app to the Android Marketplace
- Index