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• Accepted Answer

  Sorry I dont have kitchensink example with me at moment. (Couldn't get it to work on my windows pc).

  Anywayz. Hopefully my following words are understandable.

  Basically you can see Ti.App as a global object that lives along with your applciation, and it's accessible from any point of your application. (any windows or views).

  Personally, I used it more often for situation when I need to fireEvents from the global-prespective.

  However it can also be used as a placeholder for passing objects.

  As stated in my previous example. The Ti.App.arrayPassMe was declared and assigned to aArray in one window prespective and because Ti.App is in a global context, arrayPassMe is accessible from any other context within the applicaiton.

  In Javascript, it's not necessary to declare a property for a object before you use it. By doing Ti.App.arrayPassMe = xxxx, you are simply declaring a property for the object Ti.App named arrayPassMe and assign it to the reference of xxxx.

  One great usage for Ti.App is how I declare a global constant called sBarColor, which will be used in all places within the application when trying to create a Window object. This is a great way of keeping all new window barColor property consistant, and if you wish to change the color anytime in the future. All you have to do is change the value of that global variable. For example:

  // I declare this in the app.js
  Ti.App.sBarColor = '#333';      // A dark color code for any barColor
  
  
  // Later in the application, when I create a new window, I can always reference to that barColor
  // windows1.js
  var winNew = Ti.UI.createWindow({
      barColor: Ti.App.sBarColor;
  });
  

• You could use the Ti.App global object to transfer the information you need to any other window or tabs.

  For Example, I wish to pass a array from window 1 to window 2 without setting window's variables.

  // Inside your first window
  // Declare a new array
  var aArray = ['a1', 'a2'];
  
  // Assign it to the global reference
  Ti.App.arrayPassMe = aArray;
  
  
  // after new window or tab been loaded
  window2.arrayGetMe = Ti.App.arrayPassMe;
  
  // Debug log
  Ti.API.info(window2.arrayGetMe[0]);
  
  // [INFO] a1
  
  // If you wish, you can always decease it after use
  Ti.App.arrayPassMe = null;
  

• can you please elaborate more on this or point me to some kitchen sink example or documentation about how to implement it?

• can you please elaborate more on this or point me to some kitchen sink example or documentation about how to implement it?