Chapter 5. It's All About Data

If this book was split into two parts, this chapter would have been the start of part two. The first part, representing the first four chapters, was aimed at getting you introduced to Titanium and encouraging you to program using best practices so that you can avoid getting into a mess when you do start to code your own apps. Now the focus changes; there will be more real-world coded examples and it will be assumed that you have some familiarity with the tool. This chapter is all about data – how to retrieve, store, and send data.

Unless you are going to write another flashlight or spirit-level app, the chances are that you will need to manage data. Even the humble spirit-level app will probably need to store the users' default settings of tolerance/sensitivity. What I am trying to say is that it is very likely that you will need to handle data of some form in your app, so you will need to at least be aware of the concepts introduced in this chapter.

The data...