This is a roundup of all the Titanium Mobile development news I’ve gathered from the Twittersphere and Interwebs for the past week.
News
3.2.1 Beta of SDK/Studio is now available. Test out the pre-production release and share your feedback.
Appcelerator’s January Developer Newsletter is out. Read more about TiConf, some common issues with 3.2.0, GitTio and more.
Meet ten incredible mobile innovators, and winners of the Appcelerator Enterprise Mobility Awards.
TiConf US will be held in NYC on May 10-11. Tickets are available now via ticonf.org or EventBrite. You can also checkout the TiConf newsletter online.
Tips
Fokke Zandbergen explans how to use widgets with child elements in Alloy 1.3.
Tony Lukasavage sings the virtues of Grunt with his post on Automating Appcelerator: grunt-titanium and grunt-alloy.
Check out these browser based emulators to help share your apps when reviewers don’t have a device handy.
Modules and Widgets
Marcel Pociot shared a module to replace the iOS7 app switcher view with your own customized card view.
Stefan Moonen’s fh.imagefactory module fixes orientation issues when resizing images on Android.
TiSoftKeyboard: Some missing soft keyboard events and features implemented. [iOS only]
Ben Bahrenburg shared his initial drop of Ti.CoreMotion with step counter implemented. Docs & more coming soon.
Apps
Real Road Racer is a top-down racing game that uses real satellite images to let you race virtual cars on real roads in a unique take on racing simulations.
See through walls with MagicKeyhole.
WordBrain is a game – it starts very easy but gets challenging quickly. Be prepared for a quick-paced puzzle game – sort of a Soduko and Candy Crush Saga twist on Ruzzle & Scramble.
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If you’ve got any news, tips, or apps I’ve missed, please let me know!
Jeff
Comments
Pier Paolo Ramon
Thank for the inclusion of our TiSoftKeyboard! I’d like to note that for the principal use of it (responding interactively to the soft keyboard) it has been super-seeded by TiDAKeyboardControl (you can find it at https://github.com/smclab/TiDAKeyboardControl)
Pier — from SMC, Italy