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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

Adding attachments to an e-mail


Now we have a basic e-mail dialog up and running, but ideally what we want to do is attach the photo that we selected from our photo gallery to our new e-mail message. Luckily for us, Titanium makes this easy by exposing a method, addAttachment(), that accepts a local path of the file we want to attach.

Note

Complete source code for this recipe can be found in the /Chapter 5/Recipe 2 folder.

How to do it...

Adding an attachment is usually as simple as passing the addAttachment() method of the e-mail dialog and the location of the file or blob you wish to attach, for example:

//add an image from the Resource/images directory
emailDialog.addAttachment('images/my_test_photo.png');

Our case is a bit trickier than this though. In order to successfully attach our chosen image, we need to first save it temporarily to the file system, and then pass the file system path to addAttachment(). Alter your postToEmail function to match the following code:

//create your email
function...