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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

Playing video files from the filesystem


Now that we have recorded a video, how about playing it back? Titanium has an inbuilt video player component that can play both local files and remote video URLs. In this recipe, we'll show you how to create the video player control and pass it the local file URL of the video that we recorded in the previous recipe.

How to do it...

In our app.js file, underneath the declaration of the videoFile object, we create the following function:

function playMovie(){
  //create the video player and add it to our window
  //note the url property can be a remote url or a local file
  var my_movie = Ti.Media.createVideoPlayer({
  url: videoFile,
  width: 280,
  height: 200,
  top:20,
  left:20,
  backgroundColor:'#000'
  });
  
  win2.add(my_movie);
  my_movie.play();
}

Then, in your event listener for btnGetVideo, extend the code so that it checks the button title and plays the recorded video when it has been saved:

//get video from the device
btnGetVideo.addEventListener...