Chapter 4. Interactive E-book for iPad

In this chapter, we will be developing an interactive electronic book (e-book) application with realistic page flipping, pretty much like a real book. This will be an iPad-specific application in order to benefit from the large screen resolution offered by a tablet display. We will be using WebView , along with HTML and CSS to present a rich experience. We will also be using other rich view components such as MapView to show a satellite imagery and a video player.

Since Titanium does not provide "page flipping" functionality out of the box, we will rely on a native module to achieve our goal. We will get more into that later on in this chapter.

By the end of this chapter, you will have learned the following concepts:

• What a native Titanium module is
• Installing, configuring, and using a native module to your existing project
• Using the WebView component
• Using the MapView component
• Using the VideoPlayer component
• Locking the screen's...