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Appcelerator Titanium Smartphone App Development Cookbook Second Edition

By : Jason Kneen
Book Image

Appcelerator Titanium Smartphone App Development Cookbook Second Edition

By: Jason Kneen

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 (16 chapters)
15
Index

Coding around the differences between the iOS and Android APIs

Although Appcelerator Titanium makes much of the hard work of integrating numerous operating systems and devices invisible to you, the developer, there are going to be times when you simply have to write some code that is platform-specific. The most common way of doing this is by checking the osname property from the Ti.Platform namespace.

In this recipe, we will create a simple screen that shows a custom activity indicator when the device is an iPhone, and a standard indicator when the user is using an Android device.

Again, the complete source code for this recipe can be found in the /Chapter 11/Recipe 4 folder.

How to do it…

Open your app.js file, remove any existing code, and type the following:

// create root window
var win1 = Ti.UI.createWindow({
    title: 'Tab 1',
    backgroundColor: '#fff'
});


///this next bit is a custom activity indicator for iphone
///due to too many diffs between android...