78 Answers

• It takes minimal extra effort to target the Android platform as well as the iPhone. Take a bit of extra time to make sure your app works on both (using platform detection where you need to do something slightly differently, or need to skip a function that causes the app to crash on one device).

  if (Titanium.Platform.name == 'android') {
      // Android stuff
  }
  

  Connect to test data-sources by detecting whether the app is running in a simulator.

  if (Titanium.Platform.model == 'google_sdk' || Titanium.Platform.model == 'Simulator') {
      // Simulator variables
  }
  

• Use my brother's Titanium Redux (you just include one javascript file into your context) to help clean up your code. The most important thing it gives you is JSS (similar to CSS) for reusable styles on your controls. You can specify styles based on control type, control id, or class name.

  https://github.com/dawsontoth/Appcelerator-Titanium-Redux

• Hidden functionality of Titanium.Platform.openUrl(); you might not know of!

  Examples

  Calling Phonenumber ( on iPhone does not accept white spaces!! )

  // phoneNumber is a var containing a phoneNumber
  Ti.Platform.openUrl('tel:'+phoneNumber);
  

  Calling Skype! ( not tested on Android )

  // skypeName is a var containing a skypename
  Ti.Platform.openUrl('skype:'+skypeName);
  

  Sending an SMS

  // where smsNumber is a telephoneNumber
  Ti.Platform.openUrl('sms:'+smsNumber);
  

  Opening google maps with a valid address ( not tested on Android )

  // where address is a string containing a street name, city name, zipcode and country name.
  // you don't need them all, you'll figure out what you need as a minimum
  
  // encodeURIComonent is a javascript function that escapes special chars and stuff. Quick solution i used atm
  Ti.Platform.openUrl('http://maps.google.com/maps?q=+encodeURIComonent(address));
  

• 1. Titanium HTTPClient runs in a separate thread and often (always?) doesnt release it. Use global client to download multiple files to minimize number of threads. You can make a recursive procedure, that gets called from onreadystatechange or onload (if it fires)

  2. HTTPClient.onload often doesnt fire, use onreadystatechange with readyState == 4

  3. Titanium HTTPClient doesnt close itself automatically, so before reopening it with a different direction, use "abort", or it will bring you the same file as before.

  4. So if u create a client, all your subsequent events and timers will fire in several threads. Titanium threads seem to share variables, so if your event is sensitive to doubled execution, use a simple integer or boolean to create a semaphore.

• Here's a few things I've learned along the way:

  1. Comment the top of the JS file with: the name of the file, it's purpose; and any external dependencies the context will use (i.e. properties/window variables) - very useful if reusing the window from multiple directions/paths.

  2. I Ti.API.info the name of the JS file at the start, so I can capture the sequence of navigation when testing. Also useful if you could have obsolete files to check they are not used.

  3. Properties are persistent so you may want to 'remove' them in your app.js - to start afresh

  4. If your window contains data that may get updated, consider putting the display construction code into a discreet function and call it from the window focus event.

  5. use variables attached to rows to store static data about an item, it's easier than locating label object values (and more consistent).

  6. If you have textfields, workout where the keyboard will rise up to and try to avoid obscuring other controls - my current headache!

• Always be sure to show loading screens where applicable. To match Apple's standard loading screen (position, color, etc) I use the following:

  var loadView = Ti.UI.createView({
      backgroundColor: '#d8d8d8',
      height: 480,
      width: 320
  });
  var loadingScreen = Titanium.UI.createActivityIndicator({
      height:50,
      width:210,
      color:'#404347',
      font:{fontFamily:'Helvetica Neue', fontSize:14,fontWeight:'normal'},
      message:'Loading...',
      style:Titanium.UI.iPhone.ActivityIndicatorStyle.DARK
  });
  

• For quick tracing of info.. I have a function I call…

  function trace(msg)
  {
     Ti.API.info(msg);
     Ti.API.info("Available memory: " + Ti.Platform.availableMemory);
  }
  

• I made a small tutorial on how to create custom rows in tableView.

  http://cssgallery.info/custom-row-for-tableview-in-appcelerator-titanium/

  I hope it will be useful.

• ###Increase Application Speed by 50-75%

  If you use tables in your application and add more rows on a click event or such, these two tips can increase the speed of your app by 50-75%!

  ####ALWAYS group similar rows with className

  Using a className was the first step I took to optimize performance of my application and I noticed about a 50% speed increase over not using a className.

  "Rendering rows is an expensive operation, particularly when their layouts are complex. By setting the className property with a common value for each row layout, you enable the platform to make its calculations once and reuse them for the other, similar rows. Although it is not recommended for Simple TableViews, you should use this property every time you utilize a Standard TableView." (Source: wiki.appcelerator.org)

  ####Use Simple TableViews

  Using simple TableViews I noticed nearly a 75% speed increase in load time compared to using a standard TableView. Thus, I had to eliminate the use of images and labels, but the speed benefit is worth the cost of not as good of looks.

  "There are many more calculations involved for your mobile platform to produce a Standard TableView compared with a Simple TableView. Hence, don't use the former when the latter will suffice." (Source: wiki.appcelerator.org)

• I have a new tutorial on how to create a tooltip.

  http://cssgallery.info/create-a-nifty-tooltip-in-titanium/

• I was having troubles getting any sort of GPS data in the android emulator. Even the built-in maps app wouldn't show a location. I found a way to set mock coordinates that solved my issue. I'm working on Windows, sorry Mac users you'll have to interpret/adjust.

  First, open ddms (Dalvik Debug Monitor). On Windows, navigate to the android-sdk\tools directory and run ddms.bat. The first line in the top-left pane will read something like "emulator-####" such as emulator-5560.

  Open a command prompt window. Enter 'telnet localhost ####' substituting the number you found above. This will open a telnet window to your android emulator.

  Enter the following command (substitute your own longitude & latitude, in that order, if you'd like):

  geo fix -82.411629 28.054553
  

  (I'm pretty sure you can add elevation as a third number.) The GPS icon will appear in the emulator's notification bar. Geolocation is now available. At this point, I could get location data in my app and in other apps, such as Maps.

  You don't have to leave the telnet session running. Closing it doesn't turn off the GPS.

  I hope this helps. Tim

• Hi guys, I just launched Adamantium.js – chainable mobile app framework with jQuery-like syntax, based on TiFramework by Rick Blalock. Basically, it's a framework that let's you write code more or less like you would when developing websites and webapps with jQuery. It's open source and you can read the original blog post, browse examples and docs and download the example app. There's also a separate Q&A thread for feedback.

  Create the main screen with child elements and event handlers.

  SCR.MyScreen = $('Screen')
      .attr('title', 'My first screen')
      .add('UI.View', {
          id: 'MyScreen.View',
          height: 100,
          width: 100,
          backgroundColor: '#fc3',
          top: 100
      })
      .bind('click', function (e) {
          alert(e.source.id + ' was clicked!');
      })
  ;
  

  Use object reference as selector for components and ID as string when selecting elements. The type selector lets you select multiple components or elements with one query.

  $(SCR.MyScreen) // object
  $('#MyScreen.View') // ID
  $(':View') // type
  

  There's plenty more examples in the original blog post and the example app, so check them out!

• I have implemented Timer which works for IOS and android. It has start,stop,reset,pause and resume funtions. I hope it will help others .

  var win = Ti.UI.currheUI.createLabel({
      text : '00:00',
      font : {
          fontSize : 35
      },
      top : 30
  })
  win.add(TimerLabel);
  
  var Clock = {
      totalSeconds : 0,
      start : function() {
  
          var self = this;
  
          this.interval = setInterval(function() {
              self.totalSeconds += 1;
  
              var hours = Math.floor(self.totalSeconds / 3600);
              var min = Math.floor(self.totalSeconds / 60 % 60);
              var sec = parseInt(self.totalSeconds % 60);
              TimerLabel.text = '' + hours + ':' + min + ':' + sec;
          }, 1000);
      },
  
      pause : function() {
  
          clearInterval(this.interval);
          delete this.interval;
  
      },
  
      resume : function() {
          if (!this.interval)
              this.start();
      },
      stop : function() {
          clearInterval(this.interval);
      },
      reset : function() {
          clearInterval(this.interval);
          this.totalSeconds = 0;
          TimerLabel.text = '0:0:0';
  
      }
  };
  
  var startBtn = Ti.UI.createButton({
      title : 'Start',
      top : 70,
      left : 10
  });
  var stoptBtn = Ti.UI.createButton({
      title : 'Stop',
      top : 70,
      right : 10
  });
  var pauseBtn = Ti.UI.createButton({
      title : 'Pause',
      top : 150,
      left : 10
  });
  var resumeBtn = Ti.UI.createButton({
      title : 'Resume',
      top : 150,
      right : 10
  });
  var resetBtn = Ti.UI.createButton({
      title : 'ReSet',
      top : 200
  });
  win.add(startBtn);
  win.add(stoptBtn);
  win.add(pauseBtn);
  win.add(resumeBtn);
  win.add(resetBtn);
  
  startBtn.addEventListener('click', function(e) {
      Clock.start();
  });
  stoptBtn.addEventListener('click', function(e) {
      Clock.stop();
  });
  pauseBtn.addEventListener('click', function(e) {
      Clock.pause();
  });
  
  resumeBtn.addEventListener('click', function(e) {
      Clock.resume();
  });
  
  resetBtn.addEventListener('click', function(e) {
      Clock.reset();
  });
  

• For complex table layouts you can improve performance by adding labels etc to a view, then adding that view to a row. Adding the labels directly to the row doesn't seem to perform as well.

• Tableview click event.

  Always assign var to tableview click event to prevent multiple events registered and executed when refresh or reload on the same table lists.

  If you fresh tableview with this, or has a common function on different tabs loading diff. tableviews, tableview click event will trigger multiple times using this

  tableview.addEventListener('click',function(e){
  Ti.API.info('table view click')
  })
  
  or
  
  table_event = tableview.addEventListener('click',function(e){
  Ti.API.info('table view click')
  })
  

  you must use this to prevent duplication

  var table_event = tableview.addEventListener('click',function(e){
  Ti.API.info('table view click')
  })
  

  and probably a good practice to do the same for other event handlers

• Written a small snippet to extract / parse and deploy KML data on a maps via javascript

  here is the link

  inline

• Beginnings of a collection of Javascript debug helpers:

  http://appcelerated.wikispot.org/Debugging

• Here is my code to create a collapse/expand view. I was struggling on how to create the animation but got the solution from Liping Zong post. http://developer.appcelerator.com/question/75261/animation-while-incrementing-height-of-textarea#your-answer

  Here is my solution. Will try and make it more generic and post in GIT soon.

  var win = Titanium.UI.createWindow({backgroundColor:'#FFFFFF'});
  
  var view = Ti.UI.createView({
      backgroundColor:'#EAE6DB',
      layout:'vertical',
      top:10,
      left:10,
      height:150,
      right:10,
      borderRadius:10,
      zIndex:0
  });
  
  var hideShowButton = Ti.UI.createButton({
      backgroundImage:'arrow_contract.png',
      top:5,
      right:5
  });
  
  var separator = Ti.UI.createView({
      top:10,
      right:0,
      left:0,
      height:25,
      backgroundColor:'#B97A57',
      zIndex:1
  });
  
  var showHideButtonClicked = true;
  
  hideShowButton.addEventListener('click', function() {
      var animHeight = Ti.UI.createAnimation();
  
      if (showHideButtonClicked) {
          animHeight.height = 150;
          animHeight.duration = 500;
          view.animate(animHeight);
          hideShowButton.backgroundImage = 'arrow_contract.png';
          showHideButtonClicked = false;
      } else {
          animHeight.height = 30;
          animHeight.duration = 500;
          view.animate(animHeight);
          hideShowButton.backgroundImage = 'arrow_expand.png';
          showHideButtonClicked = true;
      }
  });
  var label1 = Ti.UI.createLabel({
      left:20,
      text:'Allergen Name',
      color:'#fff'
  });
  
  var label2 = Ti.UI.createLabel({
      left:250,
      text:'Reaction',
      color:'#fff'
  });
  
  var label3 = Ti.UI.createLabel({
      left:450,
      text:'Notes',
      color:'#fff'
  });
  
  separator.add(label1);
  separator.add(label2);
  separator.add(label3);
  
  view.add(hideShowButton);
  view.add(separator);
  
  win.add(view);
  win.open();
  

  Hope this helps

• Extend the string class with inflections (a la Ruby). My most useful inflection is String#constantize. You can use this to instantiate classes dynamically based on an interpolated name.

  var $global = this;
  
  String.prototype.constantize = function()
  {
    var constant = $global[this];
  
    if( constant == null ) throw( 'Failed to constantize string:' + this );
  
    return constant;
  };
  

  Usage:

  var OneClass = new HoweverYouDefineYourClasses(
  { 
    ...,
  
    sayHello: function()
    {
      alert( 'Hello from OneClass' );
    }
  });
  var TwoClass = new HoweverYouDefineYourClasses(
  { 
    ...,
  
    sayHello: function()
    {
      alert( 'Hello from TwoClass' );
    } 
  });
  
  var things = ['One', 'Two'];
  
  for( var i=0; i<things.length; i++ )
  {
    var object = new ((things[i] + 'Class').constantize())();
    object.sayHello();
  }
  
  // => Hello from OneClass, Hello from TwoClass
  

  Dynamic programming such as this can really DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) up your code.

• In 1.0+ you can now use alert() to create a generic pop-up alert msg on the iphone.

  alert('Hello!');
  

  (You no longer need to create a variable like so: var a = Titanium.UI.createAlertDialog(); a.setMessage("asdf");….)

• Adding properties to a View won't work, unless you do it on the constructor.

  • Without initializing the property on the constructor
    ~~~
    var rowCreada = Titanium.UI.createTableViewRow( {

                  className: 'clase1'
              } );
    

    var labelTitulo = Titanium.UI.createLabel( {

          text: 'Titulo',
          color: '#000000',
          textAlign: 'center',
          bottom: 2,
          height: 16
      } );
    

    rowCreada.add( labelTitulo);

    rowCreada.labelTitulo = labelTitulo;

  …

  Ti.API.info( 'label: '+ rowCreada.labelTitulo );  // PRINTS "label: null"
  

  
  - Initializing the property on the constructor
  

  var rowCreada = Titanium.UI.createTableViewRow( {
                  labelTitulo: '',
                  className: 'clase1'
              } );
  
  var labelTitulo = Titanium.UI.createLabel( {
          text: 'Titulo',
          color: '#000000',
          textAlign: 'center',
          bottom: 2,
          height: 16
      } );
  
  rowCreada.add( labelTitulo);
  
  rowCreada.labelTitulo = labelTitulo;
  

  …

  Ti.API.info( 'label: '+ rowCreada.labelTitulo );  // PRINTS "label: ti.modules.titanium.ui.LabelProxy@43f718d"
  

  ~~~

• Hi there,

  If you are ready to deploy to the App Store but realise that the Titanium Project Name isn't what you want displayed as the App Name (which is the standard for iOS from Ti) - here's how to specify a distinct App Name:

  1. Copy info.plist from your build/iPhone folder to the project root.
  2. Edit the string value for <key>CFBundleDisplayName</key> to be the desired title for the app on the device.
  3. delete the files (not subfolders) in the build/iPhone folder
  4. rerun the app in the simulator (forcing a rebuild)
  5. check the (regenerated) info.plist file in 'build/iPhone' contains the updated CFBundleDisplayName key value.

  cheers,
  Chris.

• I've made a squidoo lens of some of my lessons learned, hopefully it saves some others some time.

  http://www.squidoo.com/appcelerator-development

• Distributing "ad hoc" iOS apps to members of your team or company can be a royal pain:

  • Users have to first send you their udid.
  • They have to import a provision profile into itunes.
  • They have to import the app into itunes.
  • They have to sync itunes with their iOS device.

  There is a lot that can go wrong in that process, especially factoring in the technical levels (or lack there of) of the users testing your app.

  For this reason, it saves a lot of time to use Test Flight, which allows you to setup team members, upload iOS builds, and distribute the builds to their phones.

  Note: Test Flight does not work for Android, however it's easy to distribute apk's anyway so it's not that big of a deal.

• Add plenty of Ti.API.info statements to your code.. I usually prefix each one with the name of the function so that I can tell where it is.

  Ti.API.info('displayWindow - opening window, title=' + title);
  

  It saves so much time when you're debugging an app.

• Hi i have created a tutorial on how to perform orientation changes on android.

  Here is the link

• i added two snippets on my blog

  A wrapper class for the app properties
  http://alessioricco.com/blog/2010/07/16/appcelerator-wrapper-class-classes-for-titanium-app-properties/

  and

  how to switch between windows programmatically and with no tabBar
  http://alessioricco.com/blog/2010/07/15/appcelerator-how-to-switch-between-windows-programmatically-and-with-no-tabbar/

• iphone

  heres some code which lists files in the data application directory in a table and allows you to delete them if you want.

  var win = Titanium.UI.currentWindow;
  win.showNavBar();
  win.barColor = '#999';
  Titanium.UI.setBackgroundColor('#ffffff');
  
  var dirTest = Titanium.Filesystem.getFile(Titanium.Filesystem.applicationDataDirectory);
  var dirList = dirTest.getDirectoryListing();
  
  var tv = Ti.UI.createTableView({
      top:'20',
      left:'0',
      editable:true,
      border:'0',
      separatorStyle:'none'
  });
  
  function setData()
  {
      var data = [];
      for (var i=0;i<dirList.length;i++)
      {
          var row = Ti.UI.createTableViewRow({height:33});
          var l1 = Ti.UI.createLabel({text:dirList[(i)], textAlign:'center', font:{fontSize:16}, color:'#888', left:5});
          row.add(l1);
          data.push(row);
      }
      tv.setData(data);
  }
  //---------------------------------add player
  tv.addEventListener('delete',function(e)
  {
  var dfile1 = Titanium.Filesystem.getFile(Titanium.Filesystem.applicationDataDirectory, (dirList[e.index]));
  if (dfile1.exists()) { dfile1.deleteFile(); }
  dirList.splice(e.index,1);
  win.addEventListener('focus', function()
  {
  setData();
  });
  });
  
  win.add(tv);
  
  setData();
  

• Building Titanium (Mobile) from source:

  1. Download the zip

  2. Open Terminal and locate to wherever the zip is

  3. Execute "scons" (or "scons iphone=1" for iphone only)

  4. (Time passes… Thorin sits down and starts singing about gold)

  5. When done, open "dist" folder (just created) and expand zip there

  6. Open "mobilesdk/osx"

  7. Copy the folder there into "Library/Application Support/Titanium/mobilesdk/osx"

  (Restart Titanium Developer if running)

  cheers,
  Chris

• • Table View Custom Rows: they were running fine on the Simulator, but randomly crashed the device (iPhone 3GS). The workaround was to cut some properties:

  Before:

  var label1 = Ti.UI.createLabel({
     font:{fontFamily:'Helvetica Neue',fontSize:14,fontWeight:'bold'},
     text:text,
     textAlign:'left',
     left:10,
     right:label2.width + 10,
     height:22
  });
  
  row.add(label1);
  

  After:

  label = Ti.UI.createLabel({
     font:{fontFamily:'Helvetica Neue',fontSize:14,fontWeight:'bold'},
     text:text
  });
  
  row.add(label);
  

  • Another tip: I was using Titanium.App.Properties to pass data from one window to another (via row.addEventListener). The device performance became sluggish. The workaround was to set window properties.

• I just discovered that the iPhone treats image filenames as case sensitive. The Simulator/Emulator, however, does not. For example, I had an imageview defined in my app with a filename of 'images/cardback.png', but the actual filename was 'images/CardBack.png'. It worked fine that way in the Emulator, but when I installed on my iPhone4, those imageviews were replaced with a faint wave default image. Correcting the case, either in the actual filename, or in the imageview declaration, solved the problem.

• The Titanium Studio shortcut Ctrl + F11 exectute the last "run command". Usefull, if you want restat your app inside the Simulator/Emulator.

• After spending a few hours trying to find a bug, I discovered that the iPhone simulator was keeping files from old compilations of my app.
  The solution was to run my app in the iOS simulator, then click on the menu
  iOS Simulator
  the click on
  Reset Content and Settings...

• Here si another post about how to work outside of current context - with props and includes.

  https://developer.appcelerator.com/question/5561/working-outside-of-current-context—with-props-and-includes

• Here's a tutorial about how to use custom TableViewRows and how to get at the values of contained controls within those rows.

  http://appcelerated.wikispot.org/TableViewRows

• I started here a set of tutorials for beginners:

  Day 0

  Day 1

• The iPhone simulator will re-load some changes you've made to JavaScript files without having to build the app each time. This is really useful if you want to tweak the layout of icons.. just navigate away & back to the window you're opening.

• Posted a new tutorial

  Seven days with Titanium – day 2 – tables and pickers

  http://cssgallery.info/seven-days-with-titanium-–-day-2-tables-and-pickers/

• with some javascript combined with some already available ti-mobile standard view classes, you can build missing gui-elements on your own. i created a tabgroup that can be used on iDevices and Android, you can get it here:

  http://developer.appcelerator.com/question/46801/giving-to-the-community-custom-tabgroup-class-working-on-android-and-iphone

• When you post a question or needed helps from Q&A. Be specific about platform, SDK and device in questioned. Remember this Q&A comment section is horrible, you won't get notified on comment reply. Questions usually get ignored because of cumbersome feedback. So, state your question wisely and be specific.

  For instance,

  SDK 1.4.1, IOS 4, iphone 4

• iPad 3.2 using SDK 1.4.x:

  • WebView may expand/collapse when animating a view. This can be avoided by hard-setting its width and height instead of "auto".

  • When having issues setting EventHandlers, I've found that adding a small delay between an object's creation and applying the event handlers can remedy this issue.

  • setting a View's zIndex doesn't currently work. To get around this I'll add a hidden layer above the view above the interactive view. When a View needs to appear above the others, I'll "remove" the view form it's current container, set the visibility to true for the hidden layer and "add" the View to it.

  • If you've created a Javascript class which contains references to Views..etc. Event Listeners do not maintain scope which results in e.source returning "undefined". Following the Kitchen sink example code structure seems to be the best route.

  Hope these help someone out.

• new tutorial posted:

  Seven days with titanium - day 3 - ajax and webviews

• Just launched my new webpage where I will publish tutorials for Titanium Mobile and thoughts of mobile development and user experiences in general.

  First post is up, Basic CRUD operations in Titanium Mobile.

• After a long delay I managed to publish day 4 in my tutorial series

  Seven days with Titanium – day 4 – Media – images, movies and sounds

  http://cssgallery.info/seven-days-with-titanium-–-day-4-–-media-–-images-movies-and-sounds/

• Just published my latest tutorial, Create a basic model with Titanium Mobile, which is the first in a series of posts where we get familiar with a MVC based approach to development.

• Using some kind of MVC for source code organization and project structure.

• xhr with login

  http://www.tine20.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=4608&p=18980#p18980

• perhaps it helps
  http://www.tine20.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=4608&p=18980#p18980

• Hand coding the XML language files to support internationalization seems like it would be a pain. So, I wrote a web page to do the busy work for me.

  Info here on my Tumblr page and the actual tool on my web site.

• I'm working with Android 2.2 APIs and Titanium 1.5.1.

  Was trying to change the text of a label via an options dialogue. For example, when the label is clicked, an options dialogue appears and lets the user choose an option which changes the text shown in the label.

  I found out that clicking the 'back' button will force the label to some weird number -26458. You can add an if statement ( if (parseInt(e.value)>0 ) to avoid this number from appearing in your label.

• Use accelerated pickers: if you have a picker that is being used for a long-ish list of dollar values (ex: how much do you save each month for 'xxx'), you can create a picker whose values start out with $25 increments, then at some point increment by $50, then by $100, so that scrolling the picker moves in an accelerated fashion, and it is faster to get to larger amounts. IWO, at the $100 level $25 is a pretty big difference; but the same percent change at $1,000 would be $250.

• I just published a new tutorial:

  Seven days with Titanium – day 5 – GPS and Maps

• I managed to publish two more tutorials in "Seven days with Titanium"

  Day 5

  Day 6

• 1. If something doesn't seem to be working, try clearing out your build/iphone/ directory to perform a full-rebuild. (Want: an option in Titanium Developer to do this for me)
  2. Test on the device. The device will be slower, but more importantly has less memory than your machine with the emulator.

• When importing an existing project, make sure it at least has a /build/iphone or /build/android folder structure or the Run Emulator is blank.

  At least that's been my experience.

• Ahoi! To the rescue! The Tweetie-like pull to refresh example is only for iPhone. However! For a pull-to-refresh for Android see my gist here:

  http://gist.github.com/903895

  Do note that it's just an example, so for it to work with someones app it will need some modification. Hope this helps! Cheers!

• When rightNavButton or leftNavButton appear under barImage after closing a tab or a navgroup window, set yourWindow.barImage = ""; at closing to solve the issue.

• I was getting fed up with converting Dates to Text in order to store in a property (and then convert back on retrieval), so with a bit of experimentation I noticed that using a 'list' allows you to store dates & times without having to convert. See below:

  https://gist.github.com/911293

• In Google Maps, when you want WALKING directions rather than driving directions (default) append your URL request with &dirflg=w.

• On iOS, When trying to share using Facebook don't forget to set the Bundle ID that's a very important lesson i've learned today :)

• This saved my life. Really.

• Hi all,

  for those who make web apps, for the Android part I advise you to read the section about web apps on the Android developper website . It is really helpfull especially for the meta tag that are really important!

  Hope my post will help someone ;)

• Added some democode to align more than one button right in a bar like this screenshot!

  

• Based on what few sources I found, I learned how to create a pop-up date picker. It can easily be modified for use with custom rows as well.
  Titanium Studio iOS date picker. I posted the process and code on my blog.

• One of the biggest mistakes developers make when first starting with Titanium (myself included) is they do not include their shared classes in a global context, so they have to include them in each new window that they create/open. This mistake is perpetuated by the fact that the Kitchen Sink app works this way, when really it is there to show examples of how to use the API, not for how to structure an application.

  Follow an application model like Tweetanium or Ti.Air to create a global context that can be accessed in any view. This will save a lot of trouble in terms of performance and memory issues.

• Just found out and honestly feel dumb about it: Close Titanium Studio/Developer. Then restart your simulator/emulator. Your app should be performing much better and as expected.
  I don't know why this happens but it does.

• Just found out and honestly feel dumb about it: Close Titanium Studio/Developer. Then restart your simulator/emulator. Your app should be performing much better and as expected.
  I don't know why this happens but it does.

• You are not able to run gif in Titanium android and iOS ? No Problem at all…We have solution :)
  It is basically a custom activity indicator/loader that can run both for android iOS any SDK
  you just need to add/change gif in the given path and all done.
  Try This and Enjoy.

  var tabGroup = Titanium.UI.createTabGroup();
  
  var win = Titanium.UI.createWindow({
      title : 'Tab',
      backgroundColor : '#fff'
  });
  
  var tab = Titanium.UI.createTab({
      icon : 'KS_nav_views.png',
      title : 'Tab',
      window : win
  });
  
  var webview = Ti.UI.createWebView({
      left : 110,
      height : 100,
      width : 100,
      zIndex : 10,
      contentWidth : 100,
      contentHeight : 100,
      top : 170,
      html : '<html><body><img style="background-color=#CCC margin-left=0px; " width="80" height="80" src="images/loading86.gif"></body></html>'
  });
  
  var controller = Ti.UI.createButton({
      title : 'Start',
      height : 40,
      width : 100,
      top : 300,
      left : 110
  });
  
  controller.addEventListener('click', function() {
  
      if (this.title == 'Start') {
          this.title = 'Stop';
          win.add(webview);
      } else {
          this.title = 'Start';
          win.remove(webview);
      }
  });
  
  win.add(controller);
  tabGroup.addTab(tab);
  tabGroup.open();
  

  Cheers..

• cool table tows with dynamic colors.

  var j=0; function itemGeneration(name,status,email) {
  var colors; if(j==0){ j++; colors='#F5FBEF'; } else{ j=0; colors='#FFFFFF'; }

  var row=Ti.UI.createTableViewRow({title:name,backgroundColor:colors});
  var itemOne=Ti.UI.createLabel({
  text:name,
  left:0,
  color:'#000000'
  });
  var itemTwo=Ti.UI.createLabel({
  text:status,
  right:0,
  color:'#000000'
  });

  var itemThree=Ti.UI.createLabel({ text:email, color:'#000000', center:'0' });

  row.add(itemOne);
  row.add(itemTwo);
  row.add(itemThree);

  // tblView.appendRow(row);

  $.table.appendRow(row);

  }

• cool table tows with dynamic colors.

  var j=0; function itemGeneration(name,status,email) {
  var colors; if(j==0){ j++; colors='#F5FBEF'; } else{ j=0; colors='#FFFFFF'; }

  var row=Ti.UI.createTableViewRow({title:name,backgroundColor:colors});
  var itemOne=Ti.UI.createLabel({
  text:name,
  left:0,
  color:'#000000'
  });
  var itemTwo=Ti.UI.createLabel({
  text:status,
  right:0,
  color:'#000000'
  });

  var itemThree=Ti.UI.createLabel({ text:email, color:'#000000', center:'0' });

  row.add(itemOne);
  row.add(itemTwo);
  row.add(itemThree);

  // tblView.appendRow(row);

  $.table.appendRow(row);

  }

• I used on the forms to customize the hint text instead of using the default. The only thing I haven't figured out is why it only works on iOS. Posting it because I thought it would be something useful for some :)

      // On focus hide the Picker and emulate the "hintText" behavior
      aTextField_Name.addEventListener('focus', function(e) {
  
          if (aTextField_Name.value == 'Hint Text Goes Here') {
              aTextField_Name.value = '';
          }
      });
      // On blur emulate the "hintText" behavior
      aTextField_status.addEventListener('blur', function(e) {
          if (aTextField_Name.value == '') {
              aTextField_Name.value = 'Hint Text Goes Here';
          }
      });
  

• nice one

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• Thumbs up for this thread. Keep 'em coming. :) Thanks!

• I learned a new lesson today:
  When you think everything is correct but your program still crashes in Titanium Studio, try to compile your code with Titanium Developer.

• this is awesome.

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