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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

Posting a check-in to FourSquare


Now that we have created the basic module in order to authenticate against FourSquare, we are going to extend it in order to let the user "check-in" to a particular location. This works by sending details of your current place (for example, a bar, cinema, park, or museum) along with its latitude and longitude values to the FourSquare servers. From there, you can then tell which of your friends are nearby, or alternatively, make your location and activities public for everyone to see.

Note

Complete source code for this recipe can be found in the /Chapter 9/Recipe 4 folder.

How to do it…

Open your fsq_module.js file and extend the existing module so that it has the extra method as follows:

FOURSQModule.callMethod = function(method, GETorPOST, params, success, error) {
        //get the login information
        try {

            if (FOURSQModule.xhr == null) {
                FOURSQModule.xhr = Titanium.Network.createHTTPClient();
            }
            

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