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Appcelerator Titanium Smartphone App Development Cookbook

By : Boydlee Pollentine
Book Image

Appcelerator Titanium Smartphone App Development Cookbook

By: Boydlee Pollentine

Overview of this book

<p>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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Appcelerator Titanium Smartphone App Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Packaging and testing your module using the test harness


Now it's time to build, package, and test our new module! Before you go ahead with this recipe, make sure you've built the XCode project and it has been successful. If not, you will need to fix any errors before continuing.

Note

The complete source code for this recipe can be found in the /Chapter 10/Recipe 5 folder.

How to do it…

Open up the app.js example file for our module, you'll find it within the example directory of your module project. Replace the existing sample contents with the following source code:

// This is a test harness for your module
// You should do something interesting in this harness 
// to test out the module and to provide instructions 
// to users on how to use it by example.

//  write your module tests here
var bitlymodule = require('com.packtpub.BitlyModule');
Ti.API.info("module is => " + bitlymodule);

// open a single window
var window = Ti.UI.createWindow({
   backgroundColor:'white'
});

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