6 Answers

• I have no idea if this is the "official way to do this, but on Mobile SDK 1.6.0 this commandline works for me (I only use Android):

  ~/.titanium/mobilesdk/linux/1.6.0/android/builder.py  "run" \
  "/home/john/eclipse/workspace/TitaniumTests/Test002/Test002/" \
  "/opt/android-sdk"
  

  where "~/.titanium" is the location where I have Titanium installed, "/home/john/eclipse/workspace.." is my Titanium project directory and "/opt/android-sdk" is the path to the Android SDK.

  I use this to compile once and then install and start the application on a bunch of different Android emulators (different screen sizes and densities) by running a single script.

  Kind regards,
  John

• I'd love to see official support for this.

  I managed to get it working with iPhone on OS X with the following command (I made a shell-script in my project root folder):

  /Library/Application\ Support/Titanium/mobilesdk/osx/1.6.0/iphone/builder.py "simulator" "4.2" . "com.company.appid" "App Name"
  

  The only issue I've encountered is that my splash-screen isn't copied to the build-folder, instead it uses the Titanium-default.

• Take a look here: How to execute your Titanium Mobile projects from the command line using Makefiles

• The real order is:

  python build.py COMMAND VERSION PROJECT_PATH PROJECT_ID PROJECT_NAME
  

  it's better to put into a python script and run it instead of type all that in the command line.

  To confirm what I said here is the output of the help command:

  python builder.py --help
  builder.py <command> <version> <project_dir> <appid> <name> [options]
  
  available commands: 
  
    install       install the app to itunes for testing on iphone
    simulator     build and run on the iphone simulator
    distribute    build final distribution bundle
    xcode         build from within xcode
    run           build and run app from project folder
  

• there has been an updated document added to the wiki that should address this old issue

  http://wiki.appcelerator.org/display/guides/Titanium+Command-line+tool

• Checking through the build.py source code, I found a "build" target suitable for automated build since it does not spawn an emulator or require an attached device. Unlike the "run" and "run-emulator" commands, the "build" command requires the 5 arguments as per build.py –help:

  builder.py <command> <project_name> <sdk_dir> <project_dir> <app_id>
  

  For windows a build batch file would look something like:

  @ECHO OFF
  SET PROJECT_NAME="Example Project"
  SET PROJECT_ID="com.example.automatedbuild"
  SET TITANIUM_SDK=C:\Users\All Users\Titanium\mobilesdk\win32\1.6.0
  SET ANDROID_SDK=C:\android-sdk-windows
  "%TITANIUM_SDK%\android\builder.py" "build" %PROJECT_NAME% "%ANDROID_SDK%" . %PROJECT_ID%