David Bankier

Making Android Intents Useful

You are a titanium developer, which means you are a cross-platform native developer. It is important that you understand the native capabilities of each platform so that you can leverage them where it makes sense. You will have better performing apps and deliver a experience that your users expect. (I won’t get started on my […]

Terminal Titanium: A Tern(js) for the Better

What is ternjs? Tern is an indiegogo backed project that “…is a stand-alone, editor-independent JavaScript analyzer that can be used to improve the JavaScript integration of existing editors.”1 In a nutshell, it analyses your code and provides auto-completion, hints, documentation and more. Even better is that it is editor-independent so it can fit in with […]

Terminal Titanium: Prompty

Once you start spending most of your time in the terminal, it is likely you will start customising it. Choosing your shell, setting your colour scheme and aliases is all part if making your terminal home. It is mostly about making your development environment productive rather than just making things look pretty. One area is […]

Terminal Titanium: Get Notified

I thought I would kick off a series on tips, trick and speed ups for those using titanium from the terminal. I use vim/tmux for all my tidev, but none of these posts will assume you do the same. If you are reading this I am going to assume that you are already pretty familiar […]

TiShadow 2.3.0 – Alloy now a first class citizen

Last Friday I released a new version of TiShadow – 2.3.0. If you don’t know what TiShadow is, click on the link above, have a read and come back to this post. The motivation behind TiShadow has always been to remove the pain points in the Titanium development lifecyle and in particular, speed things up. […]