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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

Joining the Google Android Developer Program


In order to submit applications to the Android Marketplace, you must first register a Google account, and then register for both a Google Checkout account and Android Developer account. All of these accounts utilize the same username and password combination and the process is quite straightforward. Membership is paid, and starts from $25 USD (or equivalent), and is a one-time payment.

How to do it…

To register, first open up a web browser and navigate to http://market.android.com/publish. You'll be asked to log in to your Google Account (as seen in the following screenshot). If you don't have one, then this is the stage at which you need to create an account.

Once you've completed the sign in or registration process, you'll then be asked to provide your Developer/Publisher details. After that, you'll be required to pay the US $25 registration fee. That's it—simple and straightforward! You can now start to create and upload applications to the Android...