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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

Enhancing your TableViews with custom rows


So far we have created a TableView, which while being totally usable and showing the names of our recipes from the XML feed, is a bit bland. To customize our table we will need to create and add custom TableRow objects to an array of rows, which we can then assign to our TableView object. Each of these TableRow objects is essentially a type of View, to which we can add any number of components, such as Labels, ImageViews, and Buttons.

Next, we will create our TableRow objects and add to each one of them the name of the recipe from our XML feed, a short description, and a thumbnail image (which we will get from the images folder in our Resources directory) to each one of them. If you do not already have an images directory, create one now and copy the images from the source code for this recipe, which can be found in the /Chapter 2/Recipe 3 folder.

How to do it...

Open your recipe.js file and type in the following code. If you have been following along...