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tiConf speaker Trevor Ward

Next in our series of interviews with tiConf speakers is Trevor Ward, author of 2 Titanium books and currently leading a development team at First Utility in the UK. Trevor will speak at both tiConf US and tiConf EU about the Genymotion Android emulator. Twitter: @thewarpedcoder GitHub: thewarpedcoder Site: thewarpedcoder.net Tell us something about yourself […]

tiConf speaker Joshua Jensen

Next in our series of interviews with tiConf speakers is Joshua Jensen, partner of ROAR as well as a TiDev author of course! He will share Best Practices for those beginning with Titanium and Alloy, on the first day of tiConf US. Twitter: @joshj GitHub: joshjensen Site: joshjensen.com Tell us something about yourself From the […]

tiConf speaker Alexander Chatterjee

Next up in our series of interviews with tiConf speakers is Alexander Chatterjee. He will speak about Wearable Technology on May 11th at tiConf US. Twitter: @gazicebear Site: alexander-chatterjee.com Tell us something about yourself I am somebody who is passionate about science and I like to think about myself as a geek and an hacker […]

Dates for tiConf Asia & Australia announced

Boydlee today announced the dates for the tiConf Asia 2014 conference in Singapore as well as tiConf Australia 2014 in Sydney, just a 10 minute walk away from the famous Opera House! tiConf Asia 2014, Singapore: October 25th tiConf Australia 2014, Sydney: November 22nd In the margins, the city for tiConf South-America has now been […]

First community-maintained Appcelerator module: Ti.Flurry

Open-source is a vital part of Appcelerator’s history and future. Titanium itself has always been open-source and about a year ago also most of Appcelerator’s own modules have been open-sourced at: github.com/appcelerator/titanium_modules github.com/appcelerator-modules Recently Appcelerator approached community members asking if they would be interested in not just committing to, but actually maintaining one of these […]

tiConf speaker Matt Apperson

Next up in our series of interviews with tiConf speakers is Matt Apperson from Apperson Labs. He will speak about RapidDev on May 10th at tiConf US. Twitter: @mattapperson GitHub: appersonlabs Site: Apperson Labs Tell us something about yourself. What do you do related to Titanium? I used to work for Appcelerator helping answer community […]

Adding a PDF reader to your Android app

I don’t know about you, but I have had multiple clients request a PDF viewer in their app. Personally, I am not a huge fan of PDF’s but they serve their purpose. Below are 3 examples of ways to add a PDF viewer to your Titanium Mobile application. The easy way Did you know Google […]

Remove log calls from (production) code

Is your code packed with Ti.API. and console. calls? Good! They are really useful to inspect and debug your app. But once in production only error-level messages end up in the console for iOS, whereas Android only filters debug-calls out. So for messages you don’t want to show in production use Ti.API.debug and for messages […]

Titanium & Studio 3.2.3 highlights

The beta of Titanium & Titanium Studio 3.2.3 is now available. It’s a minor update, but still fixes 132 issues and even adds some small new features. Here is my top 3: Android Action Bar now supports subtitle (#TIMOB-15580) You can now set the subtitle for the Action Bar like this: var win = Ti.UI.createWindow(); […]

tiConf speaker Stephen Feather

Next up in our series of interviews with tiConf speakers is Stephen Feather. He will speak about Using BLE to Enhance User Engagement on May 11th at tiConf US. Twitter: @stephenfeather GitHub: sfeather Site: Feather Direct Tell us something about yourself Professionally, I left AT&T in the early 90s to start my own consultancy. We […]

tiConf speaker Pratik Patel

Next up in our series of interviews with tiConf speakers is Praktik Patel of TripLingo. He will speak about Working With Data in Titanium on May 10th at tiConf US. Twitter: @prpatel GitHub: prpatel Site: TripLingo Tell us something about yourself I’m the CTO of TripLingo, our product is the “ultimate app for travelers” and […]

tiConf speaker Grant Shipley

Kicking of a series of interviews with tiConf speakers is Grant Shipley from Red Hat. He will speak about Scaling Your Mobile Back-end on May 10th at tiConf US. Twitter: @gshipley GitHub: gshipley Tell us something about yourself I started my career as a Java Developer and moved into management about 7 years ago. I […]

Know DevLink? Meet DevMap!

To download and use Titanium, as well as access most resources, you need a free Appcelerator Network account. If you then complete your Developer Profile and select Yes for List in DevLink you’ll be included in Appcelerator’s public directory of Titanium developers. Get free exposure! A nice way to get exposure as a freelancer or […]

Memory Management

How do I manage memory in my app? How can I fix memory leaks? How does using Alloy alter memory management best practices? We see questions like this in endless variety. In this article, I will lay down the general principles you should follow to hopefully clear up this issue once and for all. When […]

Create an icon font with IcoMoon

Learn how to create a icon font for your iOS & Android mobile application with IcoMoon and get lightweight vector icons in just one file!

Keeping Your App Responsive – Part 3

You are reading the last part of a three-part series: Part 1: The problem Part 2: The reason Part 3: The solution Part 3: The Solution In part 1 and part 2, you have learned why your app can sometimes become unresponsive. The single-threaded nature of JavaScript means all of your app’s logic is run […]

Listing all Titanium events

We just added a new Events page listing all Titanium conferences, the 10 largest meetups and links to find one near you. Go check it out! We’re planning to provide live coverage of all major conferences, but also love to publish reports on your local meetups. Include the slides or maybe even an audio or […]

Snippet for a better alert

I’m lazy, so I rather type: alert('Hello!'); then: Ti.UI.createAlertDialog({message: 'Hello!'}).show(); Custom title However, for localized apps or if for other reasons I want to have another title and/or button label then the default Alert and OK, this doesn’t work. So in my classic app.js or Alloy alloy.js I have: function alert(message, title, ok) { Ti.UI.createAlertDialog({ […]

TiCons CLI

April last year, I launched TiCons – a simple online tool written in PHP to generate all your Titanium (and Alloy) icons and splash screens from a single source. Each month, is used to generate icons for 600 apps! Recently I developed a NodeJS CommonJS module and CLI version of TiCons. Read more about it […]

Easier iOS beta distribution with Installr

As you know, one of the critical phases of any app development project is user testing – getting your customers to try your app before submitting it to the App Store. The more testers the better – they will help you find bugs and determine any critical improvements you need to make before it is […]

How you can learn from Apple’s mistake

In late February Apple published a security update for iOS and OSX. The reason for this update will be explained at the bottom of this article. Why Should I Care? The reason why this specific issue warrants a post is to show you just how easy it is to fall into the trap of using […]

Keeping Your App Responsive – Part 2

You are reading part 2 of a three-part series: Part 1: The problem Part 2: The reason Part 3: The solution Part 2: The Reason Most (standard) buttons in your Titanium app change appearance when touched, to provide you with a visual confirmation. But though the look of the button changes instantly, the desired result […]

London Titanium Podcast – Episode 2 Hyperloop

With the recent Developer Preview of Hyperloop for Windows, we have dipped into our audio archives to bring you a recording of Jeff Haynie in his first public talk on Hyperloop. It was recorded in Atlanta, during the second Titanium AppCamp Unconference and Hackathon. We then have a video from Jeff of his presentation to […]

Building an App Factory

Building similar apps for different brands or products of the same company may sound like easy money. It is also extremely boring. That’s why I try to minimize repetitive work by re-using existing and self-build modules and widgets across different projects. However, if the projects are very similar and only differ in style, contents and […]

Ti Highlight Label: An AttributedString widget

Titanium 3.2 introduces Attributed String, an API for creating rich text labels in iOS with different styles in the same label, something long asked for by the community. While some modules exist around there with basic html and styles support, this API is officially supported in the Titanium SDK and its performance really deserves to […]