Extending your app over multiple files

So far all of the code has been contained in a single app.js file. However, this soon becomes cluttered, unstructured, messy, and unmanageable. No language worth its salt expects you to write the full application in a single file. Titanium is no exception and exposes several methods to manage your code over several files.

The simplest and most basic method is Ti.include.

Titanium.include

Titanium.include allows you to attach source code from another file. It is analogous to #include in C, xsd:include in XML, and similar to import in Java. It allows you to break your code out into files of a manageable size.

Tip

While Ti.include makes it easy to split your code over files, it is not the preferred method. Using commons and the require keyword shown later in the chapter should be used where possible.