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Window in tab group focus events still not working on Android

I am on the latest SDK (1.4.1.1) and the latest Titanium tool. I am building this app on my Mac. I noticed that, on Android, window focus events were not being called when the window is in a tab group. There are several other posts here that have been "answered" and tickets that are marked "resolved" but the issue remains. Can anyone explain what's going on? Maybe provide a valid work-around/fix?

— asked October 1st 2010 by Ben Hornedo
  • android
  • event
  • focus
  • window
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  • I'm experiencing the same issue, it's annoying but I'm getting the impression that Titanium doesn't care about Android…

    — answered November 3rd 2010 by Justin Toth
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  • 1.4.1.1 is the same as 1.4.0 as far as the functionality on device. The blog post clearly stated that this was a tooling only release for iPhone,. Many defect fixes and features are being continuously added to Android. You are welcome to use a continuous integration build, look in the Programming Guides section for documentation.

    — answered November 4th 2010 by Don Thorp
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  • I have the same issue. The first focus event on a tabbed window does not trigger the focus event handler, but if you move to another tab then come back, it will trigger. I am using 1.4.1.1 on Mac OS X with Android API 2.2. I also tried Ti 1.5, but had so many errors trying to get the app to build/run I gave up.

    — answered November 9th 2010 by Richard Baughman
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    • I just managed to get Ti 1.5 working for Android, and found that the focus handler is now working with the build from Nov 4 off github. However, it looks like it may be firing twice (I'm seeing two debug FOCUS messages in the console).

      — commented November 9th 2010 by Richard Baughman

  • Same issue here. This is already at least a year old. What gives?

    — answered October 26th 2011 by Johnny Wong
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    • I'm struggling with this as well. It's a really big problem that just snuck up on my as I was creating the android version of my iPhone app. Any solutions?

      — commented November 15th 2011 by Jude Osborn

    • It never worked for me, so instead I ended up going with a combination of the tabGroup:focus event, as well as custom events thrown from a child window upon close (to notify parent to refresh, etc.)

      — commented November 16th 2011 by Johnny Wong
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