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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

Adding annotations to your MapView


The ability to find locations on a map is extremely useful, but what the user needs is some kind of visual representation of that location on the screen. This is where annotations come in. In this recipe, we will create annotation pins for both the start and end addresses, using the latitude and longitude values created by forwardGeocoder.

As usual, the complete source code for this recipe can be found in the /Chapter 3/Recipe 4 folder.

How to do it...

Within the search button function method that we called in the previous recipe, we replace the forwardGeocoder method with the following code to create an annotation for the start location:

//works out the start co-ords
Ti.Geolocation.forwardGeocoder(txtStartLocation.value, function(e)
{
 //we'll set our map view to this initial region so it appears 
 //on screen
 mapview.region = {latitude: e.latitude, 
                   longitude: e.longitude, 
                   latitudeDelta: 0.5, 
                   longitudeDelta...