Appcelerator Titanium Smartphone App Development Cookbook

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Building Apps using Native UI Components
• Introduction
• Building with Windows and Views
• Adding a TabGroup to your app
• Creating and formatting Labels
• Creating TextFields for user input
• Working with keyboards and keyboard toolbars
• Enhancing your App with Sliders & Switches
• Passing custom variables between windows
• Creating buttons and capturing click events
• Informing your users with dialogs and alerts
• Creating charts using Raphael JS

• Chapter 2: Working with Local and Remote Data Sources
• Introduction
• Reading data from remote XML through HTTPClient
• Displaying data using a TableView
• Enhancing your TableViews with custom rows
• Filtering the TableView using a SearchBar component
• Speeding up your remote data access using JSON and Yahoo! YQL
• Creating an SQLite database
• Saving data locally using an SQLite database
• Retrieving data from an SQLite database
• Creating a "pull and release" refresh mechanism

• Chapter 3: Integrating Google Maps and GPS
• Introduction
• Adding a MapView to your application
• Getting your current position using GeoLocation
• Converting addresses to latitude and longitude positions
• Adding annotations to your MapView
• Customizing annotations and capturing MapView events
• Drawing routes on your MapView
• Monitoring your heading using the device compass

• Chapter 4: Enhancing your Apps with Audio, Video, and the Camera
• Introduction
• Choosing your capture device using an OptionDialog
• Capturing photos from the camera
• Choosing existing photos from the photo library
• Displaying photos using ScrollableView
• Saving your captured photo to the device filesystem
• Capturing and playing audio via the audio recorder
• Capturing video via the video recorder
• Playing video files from the filesystem
• Safely deleting saved files from the filesystem

• Chapter 5: Connecting your Apps with Social Media and E-mail
• Introduction
• Composing and sending an e-mail
• Adding attachments to an e-mail
• Setting up a custom Facebook application
• Integrating Facebook into your Titanium App
• Posting on your Facebook wall
• Connecting to Twitter using OAuth
• Uploading an image using PHP and HttpRequest
• Sending a tweet through Birdhouse and OAuth

• Chapter 6: Getting to Grips with Events and Properties
• Introduction
• Reading and writing app properties
• Firing and capturing events
• Passing event data between your app and a Webview using custom events

• Chapter 7: Creating Animations, Transformations, and Understanding Drag-and-drop
• Introduction
• Animating a View using the "animate" method
• Animating a View using 2D matrix and 3D matrix transforms
• Dragging an ImageView using touch events
• Scaling an ImageView using a Slider control
• Saving our "Funny Face" image using the toImage() method

• Chapter 8: Interacting with Native Phone Applications and APIs
• Introduction
• Creating an Android Options menu
• Accessing the contacts address book
• Storing and retrieving data via the clipboard
• Creating a background service on the iPhone
• Displaying local notifications on the iPhone
• Displaying Android notifications using intents
• Storing your Android app on the device's SD card

• Chapter 9: Integrating your Apps with External Services
• Introduction
• Connecting to APIs that use basic authentication
• Fetching data from the Google Places API
• Connecting to FourSquare using OAuth
• Posting a check-in to FourSquare
• Searching and retrieving data via Yahoo! YQL
• Integrating push notifications with UrbanAirship.com
• Testing push notifications using PHP and HTTP POST

• Chapter 10: Extending your Apps With Custom Modules
• Introduction
• Integrating an existing module—the PayPal Mobile Payment Library
• Preparing your iOS module development environment
• Developing a new iPhone module using XCode
• Creating a public API method
• Packaging and testing your module using the test harness
• Packaging your module for distribution and sale

• Chapter 11: Platform Differences, Device Information, and Quirks
• Introduction
• Gathering information about your device
• Obtaining the device's screen dimensions
• Understanding device orientation modes
• Coding around differences between the iOS and Android APIs
• Ensuring your device can make phone calls

• Chapter 12: Preparing your App for Distribution and Getting it Published
• Introduction
• Joining the iOS Developer Program
• Installing iOS Developer Certificates and Provisioning Profiles
• Build your app for iOS using Titanium Studio
• Joining the Google Android Developer Program
• Creating your application's distribution key
• Building and submitting your app to the Android Marketplace

• Index