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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

Displaying photos using ScrollableView


One of the most common methods of displaying multiple photographs and images in mobile devices is ScrollableView. This view type allows pictures to be swiped to the left and right, and is common among many applications, including Facebook mobile. The method of showing images in this way is reminiscent of flipping through a book or an album, and is very popular due to the natural feel and simple implementation.

In this recipe, we will implement a ScrollableView object. It will contain any number of images, which can be chosen from the camera or photo gallery. The complete source code for this recipe can be found in the /Chapter 4/Recipe 4 folder.

How to do it...

Firstly, let's create our ScrollableView object, which we will call scrollingView, and add it to our app.js file and the win1 window:

//this is the scroll view the user will use to swipe
//through the selected photos
var scrollingView = Ti.UI.createScrollableView({
    left: 17,
    top: 15,
   ...