TiDev – Mining the Best Appcelerator Titanium Resources

Final Goodbye

How it started Close to the end of 2013, we welcomed you to TiDev on behalf of a group of Titanium developers eager to keep you up to date with all things Titanium. Jeff Bonnes kick started the blog by moving his This Week in Titanium Mobile Development to TiDev. How it evolved One year […]

Titanium, Alloy, and ES6

WARNING: The following post isn’t about common and good practices in Alloy. You shouldn’t go forward unless you already have strong insight about both Titanium and JavaScript. ES6 is not only about syntactic sugars in your code, It also includes a lot of interesting features and flow control tools like destructuring and promises. It makes […]

TiWeekly: TiFastlane, React-Titanium, Atom.io package and more

Please find below a roundup of all the Titanium Mobile development news for the past week. News Pre-alpha release for react-titanium https://github.com/yuchi/react-titanium … New TiFastlane version. Update your app metadata/screenshots on iTunes Connect from CLI https://www.npmjs.com/package/tifastlane … Tips Versioning your apps in 4.1.0 http://www.appcelerator.com/blog/2015/07/versioning-your-apps-with-4-1-0/ How to tint an UIImageView Image http://ift.tt/1IsJL1j Nice atom.io package by @yomybaby https://atom.io/packages/titanium-alloy … Keep the images spinning […]

TiWeekly: SDK 4.1.0 Demo, TiSDK and local notification ringtones

Please find below a roundup of all the Titanium Mobile development news for the past week. News See @RicardoAlcocer and @FokkeZB steal the show with SDK 4.1.0? Check out the recording here: http://appcel.us/1Ssg5H3 Get your OSS on with the updated tisdk tool by David Bankier which can be found here. Tips iOS File Size for Custom Local Notification Ringtones Using […]

Enhancing Titanium: Simplify your API interactions with RESTe collections

A great article on Jason Kneen’s RESTe lib by Rene Pot.

TiWeekly: SDK 4.1.0, Javascript is in the Dictionary and a lot of new apps

Please find below a roundup of all the Titanium Mobile development news for the past week. News Awesome Appcelerator widget by @bduyng for creating intro pages here nice docs and test app – click Nice work from @FokkeZB, on making a @appcelerator sample app for a new release to showcase the changes – here New @Appcelerator Titanium SDK 4.1.0 includes support for iOS […]

Getting started with Appcelerator Titanium (OSS Version) and Atom

Michael Ganglof wrote a really nice article on setting up an Atom and Appcelerator Titanium workflow. See the article here.

How to migrate from Node.ACS to Sails.js

Manuel Conde wrote a very nice piece about migrating from Node.ACS to Sail.js. As Node.ACS will See the post here.

Are you on TiSlack yet?

TiSlack is becoming a success! Developers sharing a lot of experiences. Are you a member yet? Sign up here: http://topener.nl/tislack

How to replace launch images with storyboard or Xib in Titanium

Want to use a storyboard as your launch screen? Check out this article.

Alloy Widgets: Performance vs. Modularity

One of the greatest feature of Titanium relies on its high modularity. The SDK can be easily extended using modules, and when it comes to Alloy, code can be split into several parts called widgets. However, what’s the cost behind a widget? What impact does a require have on the performance? Little Benchmark In order to test the cost of using a […]

TiWeekly: Alloy Example App, New apps and more

Please find below a roundup of all the Titanium Mobile development news for the past week. News New Alloy RSS Reader Sample App Walk-through http://go.tidev.io/1GyCETV Tips Automated acceptance testing with Travis http://click Why bother using images specific to certain groups of devices? @FokkeZB shares the details here Nice example of how to get mobile payments right by @davetownsend here Modules and Widgets A […]

Automated acceptance testing with Travis

When it comes to maintain or extend an existing mobile application, there is one thing you want to ensure at any price: your changes should not break the existing working product. In other words, you should avoid any kind of regression. This is what automated acceptance stands for. Test things before it’s too late Nowadays and especially […]

TiWeekly: NPM Alloy package manager, Meetup videos and a lot of tips

Please find below a roundup of all the Titanium Mobile development news for the past week. News Really interesting contribution that allows NPM to distribute Titanium, Alloy and Arrow components by Fokke. Already on TiSlack? Make sure you are. The videos of the Dutch NL Meetup are online here. Talks about Google Analytics, component based architecture and how to make […]

NL Meetup: Matthias on building Alloy widgets

Matthias Benkort tells about The Smiths‘ view on Alloy widgets. He shows an example of one of the widgets made according to these principles. More about this can be found here.

NL Meetup: Pierre on Component Based Architecture

Pierre van de Velde from The Smiths tells about how Appcelerator Titanium benefits from good architecture. In this case by component based design.

NL Meetup: Rene Pot on using Google Analytics

Rene Pot explaining about his experience with on Ben Bahrenburgs Ti.GA module (https://github.com/benbahrenburg/Ti.GA).

A curated list of widgets and modules

Some interesting result came from the TiSlack (request invite here) this week. A curated list of widgets and modules. As gitTio does an awesome job at indexing all widgets. It lacks an editorial overview. We are working on extending gitTio but for now this will do.

TiWeekly: TiDevDash, Widget guidelines and iOS 9/Android M

Please find below a roundup of all the Titanium Mobile development news for the past week. News Interview with Klaas on his Framework TiDevDash. We started TiSlack and inviting our first Slackers, we will open it to everybody somewhere next week. So we will keep you posted. Tips As a result from some fruitful discussions on TiSlack, Matthias crafted […]

Appcelerator asks you what you want from iOS 9 and Android M

“Apple presented iOS9 this week and Google presented M earlier. What is that you would like to use most from these new versions in your Titanium apps?” Is what Fokke asks here Let’s get this discussion rolling!

Klaas on TiDevDash

We ran across Klaas, the youngest Titanium developer around. He is also working on a open source framework called TiDevDash. Time for him to take the stage with regards to this subject. Who are you and what do you do? My name is Klaas Schoenmaker, I’m 16 years of age and I like developing apps […]

TiSlack invites start now

We are happy to announce we got a lot of interest in a Appcelerator Titanium Slack group. We are going to use the Dutch Titanium Slack (setup by Rene Pot) that was already around to kickstart the global one. The first users will receive invites today or this weekend and we will be adding more […]

TiWeekly: TiSlack, Awards, Widgets & More

Please find below a roundup of all the Titanium Mobile development news for the past week. News Damien Laureaux won a nice award with the work he did for Thomson Holiday app. We interviewed Marcel Pocoit about the work he did on TiFiddle. Tips Nolan Wright from Appcelerator on shortening your app development cycle. Modules and Widgets Srdjan made a […]

Featured Developer: Marcel Pociot of TiFiddle

There has been a lot of fuzz about TiFiddle last weeks. As the entire community is praising Marcel on his work I thought it was time to feature him on this blog with an interview. Who are you and what do you do? My name is Marcel Pociot, I recently turned 30 and I’m working […]

TiWeekly: Appcelerator Platform 4.0 webcast & more

After a few months of absence this newsletter is alive and kicking again. So hereby a roundup of all the Titanium Mobile development news for the past week. News Appcelerator gave an interesting webcast about Appcelerator Platform 4.0. Check it out, and what do you guys think? Leave it in the comments below. Tips How to […]