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Appcelerator Titanium Smartphone App Development Cookbook Second Edition

By : Jason Kneen
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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)
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Index

Reading data from remote XML via HTTPClient

The ability to consume and display feed data from the Internet, via RSS feeds or alternate APIs, is the cornerstone of many mobile applications. More importantly, many services that you may wish to integrate into your app will probably require you to do this at some point, so it is vital to understand and be able to implement remote data feeds and XML. Our first recipe in this chapter introduces some new functionality within Titanium to help facilitate this need.

If you are intending to follow the entire chapter and build the MyRecipes app, then pay careful attention to the Getting Ready section for this recipe, as it'll guide you through setting up the project.

Getting ready

To prepare for this recipe, open Appcelerator Studio, log in and create a new mobile project, just as you did in Chapter 1: Building Apps Using Native UI Components. Select Classic and Default Project, then enter MyRecipes as the name of the app, and fill in the rest of...