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Appcelerator Titanium Smartphone App Development Cookbook

By : Boydlee Pollentine
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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

Coding around differences between the iOS and Android APIs


Although Appcelerator Titanium makes much of the hard work of integrating with numerous operating systems and devices invisible to you, the developer, there are going to be times when you simply have to write some code that is platform specific. The most common way to do this is by checking the osname property from the Titanium.Platform namespace.

In this recipe we will create a simple screen the shows a custom activity indicator when the device is an iPhone, and a standard indicator when the user is on an Android device.

Note

The complete source code for this recipe can be found in the /Chapter 11/Recipe 4 folder.

How to do it…

Open your app.js file, remove any existing code, and type in the following:

// create root window
var win1 = Titanium.UI.createWindow({  
    title: 'Tab 1',
    backgroundColor: '#fff'
});


///this next bit is a custom activity indicator for iphone
///due to too many diffs between android and ios ones
var actIndIphone...