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Learning to use titanium?

What is a method of actually learning to use titanium?

The API references show all the common functions- but where would you go to figure out what the parameters are?

For instance, just trying to open a "select file" dialog- the function to do so from the API is:

Titanium.UI.UserWindow.openFileChooserDialog(callback, options);

(first question)
How the heck do you figure out what parameters 'options' takes???

I downloaded the source code for titanium, and found the function there, but it seems to be out of date (2008), with different parameters.

(second question)
Is there a "kitchen sink" for the desktop? Kitchensink on android doesn't install for the emulator, and crashes on my actual device upon opening….

— asked July 19th 2010 by Chris Moeller
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  • Three weeks ago I had no clue how to use Titanium. But since then I've gone from "Hello World" to a finished app and it has been a huge learning process. I'm a video guy, not a programmer, but I was able to get it figured out. I did that mostly by using the Kitchen Sink examples and spending a lot of time in here, searching and reading.

    If you are programming for your device or desktop, I'm not sure how much help the source code for Titanium will be. For me, that would just confuse me. I do have more problems with the Android emulator than I do the iPhone, but I've found that the less I have running in the background the better.

    — answered July 19th 2010 by Chris Dotson
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    • What have you used as resources for figuring out how to use the titanium API function parameters, or have you had to use them yet?

      I normally program in actionscript3, javascript and c++, so coding issues aren't the problem for me -

      It's just discovering a resource for using the Titanium API (beyond the API reference which is less helpful than the dated source code so far)

      — commented July 19th 2010 by Chris Moeller
    • I just decided to stick to Adobe AIR.
      Much faster to get started with, and a lot more tutorials.
      Titanium looked promising, but couldn't get it to actually work… which is a big advantage to air.

      You can also develop air apps for free, but hopefully you can also deploy to mobile phones soon.

      Titanium looks interesting, but will they ever have more documentation in the future?

      — commented September 10th 2010 by Chris Moeller
  • I just decided to stick to Adobe AIR.
    Much faster to get started with, and a lot more tutorials.
    Titanium looked promising, but couldn't get it to actually work… which is a big advantage to air.

    You can also develop air apps for free, but hopefully you can also deploy to mobile phones soon.

    Titanium looks interesting, but will they ever have more documentation in the future?

    — answered September 10th 2010 by Chris Moeller
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    0 Comments
  • I just decided to stick to Adobe AIR.
    Much faster to get started with, and a lot more tutorials.
    Titanium looked promising, but couldn't get it to actually work… which is a big advantage to air.

    You can also develop air apps for free, but hopefully you can also deploy to mobile phones soon.

    Titanium looks interesting, but will they ever have more documentation in the future?

    — answered September 10th 2010 by Chris Moeller
    permalink
    0 Comments
  • I just decided to stick to Adobe AIR.
    Much faster to get started with, and a lot more tutorials.
    Titanium looked promising, but couldn't get it to actually work… which is a big advantage to air.

    You can also develop air apps for free, but hopefully you can also deploy to mobile phones soon.

    Titanium looks interesting, but will they ever have more documentation in the future?

    — answered September 10th 2010 by Chris Moeller
    permalink
    0 Comments
  • I just decided to stick to Adobe AIR.
    Much faster to get started with, and a lot more tutorials.
    Titanium looked promising, but couldn't get it to actually work… which is a big advantage to air.

    You can also develop air apps for free, but hopefully you can also deploy to mobile phones soon.

    Titanium looks interesting, but will they ever have more documentation in the future?

    — answered September 10th 2010 by Chris Moeller
    permalink
    0 Comments
  • I just decided to stick to Adobe AIR.
    Much faster to get started with, and a lot more tutorials.
    Titanium looked promising, but couldn't get it to actually work… which is a big advantage to air.

    You can also develop air apps for free, but hopefully you can also deploy to mobile phones soon.

    Titanium looks interesting, but will they ever have more documentation in the future?

    — answered September 10th 2010 by Chris Moeller
    permalink
    0 Comments
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