Chapter 8. Creating Beautiful Interfaces

Titanium allows you to create native cross-platform apps. You can deploy your app onto devices with screen resolutions that range from 240 x 320, to the latest tablets with resolutions of 2048 x 1536. To make things tougher, there is also a range of display densities (pixels per inch), and some have different aspect ratios. Then there is the matter of orientation. It's enough to make your head spin. While we don't have all the answers, this chapter will attempt to clear a few things up.

This chapter brings together most of the good work that we have done in the rest of the book. If you understand how to program in Titanium, and if you follow the principles laid out in this chapter, you will be off to a flyer. However, a word of caution; if you don't get your layout right, you could end up with an app that looks great on an iPhone but a dog on everything else. Don't expect your layout to look the same across all platforms; you will probably have to...