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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

Working with Navigation and TabGroups


In iOS, we are used to seeing two classic methods of navigation: TabGroups and Navigation Windows. Both are very similar in the sense that they maintain a stack of windows that allow you to navigate between them, automatically creating a "back" link for you in iOS. But TabGroups differ; they provide Tabs that appear along the bottom of a window in iOS, and at the top in Android. With a TabGroup, you can switch between your main primary tab windows, and then subnavigate into those windows if required.

A Navigation Window, on the other hand, is just a single window. Think of it as a single tab from a TabGroup. You can open subwindows within it, but there are no tabs—also this is for iOS only.

In this recipe, we'll create an app that demonstrates a cross-platform TabGroup that will run on iOS and Android. We'll also create a variation of this app that uses a Navigation Window, and we'll deal with handling this in Android.

How to do it…

Launch Studio and create...