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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

Playing video files from the filesystem


Now that we have recorded video, what about playing it back? Titanium has an inbuilt video player component that can play both local files and remote video URLs. In this recipe we'll show you how to create the video player control and pass the local file URL of the video we captured in the previous recipe to it.

Note

Complete source code for this recipe can be found in the /Chapter 4/Recipe 8 folder.

How to do it...

In our videos.js file, underneath the declaration for the videoFile object, create the following function:

function playMovie(){
  //create the video player and add it to our window
  //note the url property can be a remote url or a local file
  var my_movie = Titanium.Media.createVideoPlayer({
    url: videoFile,
    width: 280,
    height: 200,
    top:20,
    left:20,
    backgroundColor:'#000'
  });

  win.add(my_movie);
  my_movie.play();
}

Then, in your event listener for btnGetVideo, extend the code so that it checks the button title and...