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Appcelerator Titanium Smartphone App Development Cookbook Second Edition

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Appcelerator Titanium Smartphone App Development Cookbook Second Edition

Overview of this book

This book will take you through the process of building cross-platform, native UI applications for the mobile from scratch. You will learn how to develop apps, how to use GPS, cameras and photos and how to build socially connected apps. You will also learn how to package them for submission to the App Store and Google Play. This cookbook takes a pragmatic approach to creating applications in JavaScript from putting together basic UIs, to handling events and implementation of third party services such as Twitter, Facebook and Push notifications. The book shows you how to integrate datasources and server APIs, and how to use local databases. The topics covered will guide you to use Appcelerator Studio tools for all the mobile features such as Geolocation, Accelerometer, animation and more. You’ll also learn about Alloy, the Appcelerator MVC framework for rapid app development, and how to transfer data between applications using URLSchemes, enabling other developers to access and launch specific parts of your app. Finally, you will learn how to register developer accounts and publish your very own applications on the App Store and Google Play.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Appcelerator Titanium Smartphone App Development Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


While Titanium allows you to create apps that are almost cross-platform, it is inevitable that some devices inherently have operating system and hardware differences that are specific to them (particularly between Android and iOS). Anyone who has used both Android and iOS devices would immediately recognize the very different ways in which the notification systems are set up, for example. However, there are other platform-specific limitations to the Titanium API.

In this chapter, we will be discussing both building and integrating modules into our Titanium applications, using the iOS platform as an example. The methods for developing Android modules using Java are very similar. However, for our purposes, we will concentrate only on developing modules for iOS using Objective-C and XCode.