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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 (16 chapters)
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Index

Storing your Android app on the device's SD card


Because of the way Titanium compiles code, it can result in application file sizes that are larger than traditional native apps. Even a simple hello world app could be several megabytes in size.

In this recipe, we will show you how to configure your Android application in order for it to be run on the device's external storage (using a plugin storage card, if available).

How to do it…

Open the tiapp.xml file under your project's root directory and find the <android> node in the XML; it will be located near the bottom of the file. Alter the <android> node so that it looks like the following code:

<android xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <tool-api-level>10</tool-api-level>
    <manifest android:installLocation="preferExternal">
      <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="10" />
    </manifest>
</android>

Now build and run your application on your Android device. Note...