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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

Developing a new iPhone module using XCode


Developing our own custom modules for Titanium allows us to leverage native code and make Titanium do things that it otherwise can't, or at least doesn't currently do. In this recipe, we are going to develop a small module that uses Bit.Ly to shorten a long URL. You can use this module in any of your iOS apps whenever you need to create a short URL (such as when posting a link to Twitter).

Getting ready

You will first need to set up your Mac using the steps described in the previous recipe. Make sure that you follow the steps and that your system is set up correctly, as this recipe relies heavily on those scripts working. You also need some knowledge of Objective-C for this recipe. This book doesn't try to teach Objective-C in any way; there are plenty of weighty tomes for that already. You should, however, be able to follow along with the code in this recipe to get your sample module working.

How to do it…

Firstly, let's create the basic module using...