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TiWeekly: TiFiddle by Marcel, Parse-Ti Boilerplate by Aaron and 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 Marcel Pociot has launched TiFiddle, an amazing contribution that helps showcasing code snippets, widgets or complete apps in Appcelerator Titanium online. Help him with an up vote on […]

Video tutorials from Aaron Saunders

Aaron Saunders is posting some Alloy and ACS tutorials on his YouTube channel that relate to his book ‘Building Cross-Platform Apps using Titanium, Alloy, and Appcelerator Cloud Services‘. Great content for beginners and devs new to Alloy.

Ti.Wormhole

Ben Bahrenburg has shared Ti.Wormhole. Still early days, but it provides limited Titanium event support for the Today Widget and the Apple Watch. Worth a look. https://github.com/benbahrenburg/Ti.Wormhole

Tech Topic: Lights, Camera, Movies App

Chris Bowley and Bert Grantges from Appcelerator walk through the design choices and code to create the Movies App. Worth a watch. http://www.crowdcast.io/e/appceleratorcrowdcast1

Open Source Apps from Appcelerator

Appcelerator has open sourced their Corporate Directory App and Movies – an internal app they built to demonstrate you can use Appcelerator to deliver beautiful, high-performance native apps. The source is worth a look!

Extensions and Apple WatchKit Support

Ricardo Alcocer outlines how your can start building extensions support – including WatchKit. Check it out: http://www.appcelerator.com/blog/2015/03/extensions-and-apple-watchkit-support/

Titanium SDK 3.5.1 RC with Node 0.12 Support Available

Node.js recently released Version 0.12 which makes some small changes in core APIs. Appcelerator has announced a Release Candidate version 3.5.1 of Titanium SDK and Appcelerator Studio that offers compatibility with Node 0.12. Get all the information here. http://www.appcelerator.com/blog/2015/02/titanium-sdk-3-5-1-rc-with-node-0-12-support/

Appcelerator’s Reaction to React Native (Or: Why JavaScript Will Rule the Mobile World)

From the Appcelerator Blog: Our reaction? Welcome to the club! In all seriousness, we’re glad to see a mobile-first success story like Facebook embrace the powers of JavaScript for native cross-platform development. http://www.appcelerator.com/blog/2015/02/react-native-reaction/

This Week in Titanium Mobile Development: 16 Feb 2015

A roundup of all the Titanium Mobile development news for the past week. News No big news this week, but check back next week. Tips Sign up at buildmobileapps.io to receive updates on Ricardo Alcocer’s book launch and get a sneak peek and some new training materials. Shockoe devs show us how to use the […]

Rapid Titanium WebView debugging with Chrome Developer Tools

The devs over at shockoe show us a great way to use the debugging tolls for web views introduced in Android 4.4. http://www.shockoe.com/rapid-titanium-webview-debugging-chrome-developer-tools/

This Week in Titanium Mobile Development: 9 Feb 2015

A roundup of all the Titanium Mobile development news for the past week. News John Anderson launched a kick-starter for App-Pi, providing an alternative to building apps quickly and easily using a Raspberry Pi and Titanium. Google Now supports third-party apps, why mobile moments matter, augmented reality and more: Appcelerator’s The Week in Mobile. Tips […]

React Native Movie demo app written with Titanium’ s Alloy

Antonio Calanducci took the ‘Movie’ demo application that was displayed as part of the introduction of React Native last week and wrote it in Alloy for iOS and Android. Looking forward to a video where he will show how to build the application in less than 1 hour. https://github.com/EtnaTraining/MoviesDemo

App-Pi

The Idea I had previously worked on Ti-Browser, a way to create Native UI Demos using just XML. It worked great. So great, in fact, that I realized that it’s hard to tell the difference between a High Fidelity UI demo and a real app. Problem was, to make highly interactive “Apps”, you had to […]

This Week in Titanium Mobile Development: 2 Feb 2015

A roundup of all the Titanium Mobile development news for the past week. News Get the weekly Appcelerator update on mobile with Spotify updates its app with press-to-play and swiping functionalities, and more mobile news. Ricardo Alcocer’s recommends 5 Mobile Development Influencers to Follow in 2015, and shares his insight into why. The January Enterprise […]

Goodbye!

Last week’s Reacting to React Native was the last of 84 posts I wrote for tiDev since I started it with some of my fellow Titans and friends in December 2013. Its mission: TiDev is a new independent blog bringing news, rumors, tips & tricks, reviews and more on Appcelerator’s Titanium platform and Alloy framework […]

Reacting to React Native

This week at the React.js Conf 2015, Facebook presented React Native. A revolutionary solution to build native mobile apps using JavaScript. Sound familiar? Let’s go over some quotes from the keynotes. Introducing React Native We’ve tried in the past to just build web-apps that we could wrap in thin native wrappers, but it doesn’t work. […]

Meetup: Build Native Windows apps with Titanium

Upcoming Appcelerator Titanium Netherlands meetup on Wednesday February 4th Description Appcelerator recently presented a preview of Titanium for Windows (native), based on the new Titanium core HAL that will also power Titanium 4.x or Ti.Next. This meetup Fokke will walk you through setting up a free Windows (Virtual) Machine with all dependencies needed to give […]

Formatting Strings the Correct Way using an old Friend “printf”

In developing an app you will need to format a string at least once – even if you do not realise that is what you are doing. You may only ever need the most basic of formatting abilities – but chances are after time your needs will expand and the complexity of your string formatting […]

This Week in Titanium Mobile Development: 26 Jan 2015

A roundup of all the Titanium Mobile development news for the past week. News Appcelerator partners with CACI to help mobile development with a code analysis tool for DOD and government agencies. Last week’s Appcelerator’s The Week in Mobile – Google pulls Glass off the market, how to make a mobile app stand out among […]

Meetup: January Mobile app meetup

Upcoming Riga Mobile App Developer Meetup meetup on Wednesday January 28th Description We are going to talk about iPhone, Android, Windows Phone application development and related middleware – PhoneGap, Appcelerator from coding, design and marketing perspectives. Agenda: – Personal Introductions; – History and background of meetup group; – Acknowledgement of largest ecosystem players; – Meetup […]

Digest Authentication with Appcelerator Titanium HTTPClient

The Shockoe blog has a great post on Digest Authentication with Appcelerator Titanium HTTPClient including the code to make it work.

New CLI Plugin: TiCh allows you to switch TiApp.xml configurations via the CLI

Jason Kneen shared his first CLI plugin ‘TiCh‘ that allows you to switch TiApp.xml configurations via the CLI. It solves thes issue when a project has one codebase, multiple apps and varying app Ids. It allows you to switch apps, clean the project, and build the new version.

Meetup: Monthly meetup

Upcoming UK North Appcelerator Titanium meetup on Wednesday January 21st Description How can appcelerator match your mobile needs in 2015. Details Event: Monthly meetup Group: UK North Appcelerator Titanium Date & Time: Wednesday January 21st 20:00 Location: 6 Slate Wharf, Castlefield, Manchester, M15 4ST, Manchester, GB

This Week in Titanium Mobile Development: 19 Jan 2015

Happy New Year! This is a roundup of all the Titanium Mobile development news I’ve gathered from the Twittersphere and Interwebs for the past week. News Titanium SDK 3.5.0 GA is now available with 64-bit iOS support. Get it now. Appcelerator and CACIIntl announce a partnership to rapidly develop secure mobile applications for Federal customers, […]

How to create stateful Alloy widgets

Stateful widgets CommonJS modules are stateful. They are loaded into memory once on their first use after which every next require() will return the same instance. This makes them perfect to act as global configuration modules or event dispatchers. NOTE: As pointed out by Timan in the comments, in Titanium this only works if you […]