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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

Packaging your module for distribution and sale!


Titanium modules are created in a way that allows easy distribution and reuse, both in your own apps and in the Titanium Marketplace. In this recipe, we will go through the steps required to package our module and then distribute it in the marketplace.

The complete source code for this chapter can be found in the /Chapter 10 folder, along with the compiled version of the Bit.Ly module.

How to do it…

The first requirement is to edit the manifest file that is automatically generated when you created your module. Here is an example taken from our BitlyModule:

#
# this is your module manifest and used by Titanium
# during compilation, packaging, distribution, etc.
#
version: 1.0.0
apiversion: 2
architectures: armv7 arm64 i386 x86_64
description: BitlyModule
author: Jason Kneen
license: Specify your license
copyright: Copyright (c) 2015 by Your Company

# these should not be edited
name: BitlyModule
moduleid: com.packtpub.BitlyModule
guid: c87eb59c...