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Creating Mobile Apps with Appcelerator Titanium

You're reading from   Creating Mobile Apps with Appcelerator Titanium There's no better way to learn Titanium than by using the platform to create apps for iPhone, iPad, and Android, and this tutorial lets you do exactly that. It's a truly hands-on approach that covers all the essential bases.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849519267
Length 318 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Christian Brousseau Christian Brousseau
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Preface 1. Stopwatch (with Lap Counter) FREE CHAPTER 2. Sili, the assistant that just listens 3. The To-do List 4. Interactive E-book for iPad 5. You've Got to Know When to Hold 'em 6. JRPG – Second to Last Fantasy 7. JRPG – Second to Last Fantasy Online 8. Social Networks 9. Marvels of the World around Us 10. Worldwide Marco Polo A. References Index

Getting the device's location


In order to search photos that were taken around the device's location, it is imperative that we determine where this location is. Titanium provides us with a Geolocation module that is provided with the SDK.

The module provides the following two main families of features:

  • Location services that can be used to determine the location of the device.

  • Geocoding and reverse geocoding that can be used to convert geographic coordinates into street addresses. The reverse is also possible, meaning that we can convert physical addresses into geographic coordinates.

Tip

Be always thoughtful of power consumption when dealing with location services. Many factors such as accuracy and update frequency can have a huge impact on the device's battery life, if it is not used properly.

How does that translate into code?

Inside our ApplicationWindow function, after defining the user interface, we will add our Geolocation code.

On iOS specifically, the user must approve the use of the location...

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