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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

Reading and writing app properties


Whether you are reading or writing values, all app properties are accessed from the Ti.App.Properties namespace. In this recipe, we are going to create a number of properties, all with different types, under the first window of our app. Then, we will read them and output their values to the console using a button in the second tab window. We'll also show you how to check the existence of a property using the hasProperty method.

Getting ready

To prepare for this recipe, open Appcelerator Studio and log in if you have not already done so. If you need to register a new account, you can do it for free directly from within the application. Once you are logged in, click on New Project and the details window for creating a new project will appear. Enter EventsAndProperties as the name of the app, and fill in the rest of the details with your own information.

Pay attention to the app identifier, which is normally written in backwards domain notation (that is, com...