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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

Safely deleting saved files from the filesystem


We can create these files and write them to our local phone storage, but what about deleting them? In this recipe, we'll explain how to safely check for and delete files using the Ti.Filesystem.File namespace.

How to do it...

In your app.js file, before you create tab2, add the following button code with an event listener. This will be our trash button and will call the delete function on the currently selected image:

//create trash button
var buttonTrash = Ti.UI.createButton({
    width: Ti.UI.SIZE,
    height: Ti.UI.SIZE,
    right: 25,
    bottom: 25,
    title: 'Delete',
    zIndex: 2,
    visible: false
});
//create event listener for trash button
buttonTrash.addEventListener('click', function(e){
    
});

We add an extra line to our existing btnSaveCurrentPhoto click event to make our trash button visible only after a photo has actually been saved to the disk:

btnSaveCurrentPhoto.addEventListener('click', function(e){
    ….
    
    buttonTrash...