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Creating Mobile Apps with Appcelerator Titanium
Creating Mobile Apps with Appcelerator Titanium

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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Creating Mobile Apps with Appcelerator Titanium

Chapter 2. Sili, the assistant that just listens

In this chapter, we will be making our very own voice recorder application called Sili. While other popular applications interpret voice commands, this application simply listens by storing the recordings on the device. We will also provide the possibility of listening to previous recordings by selecting them from a list. We will cover user interface (UI) interactions of course, but we will also be covering media and filesystem interactions.

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

  • Applying images to standard controls (such as buttons) to implement a "custom" look and feel
  • Recording audio and saving to the device
  • Interacting with the filesystem
  • Playing back an audio file
  • Deleting a specific table view row

Note

Titanium only supports audio recording on the iOS platform at this time. Therefore this project will be specifically built for an iPhone. Also, while all the interface interactions can be...

Creating our project

First, we need to set up a new project for our application. To do this, select the File | New | Mobile Project menu from the Titanium studio and fill out the wizard forms with the following information:

Field

Values to be entered

Project Template

Default project

Project Name

Sili

Location

You can either:

  • Create the project in your current workspace directory by checking the Use Default Location checkbox
  • Create the project in a location of your choice

App Id

com.packtpub.hotshot.sili

Company/Personal URL

http://www.packtpub.com

Titanium SDK Version

By default, the wizard will select the latest version of the Titanium SDK, which is recommended (as for this writing, we are using Version 3.1.1 GA)

Deployment Targets

Only check iPhone

Cloud Settings

Uncheck the Cloud-enable this application checkbox

Project creation is covered more extensively in Chapter 1, Stopwatch (with Lap Counter). So, feel free to refer to this section if you...

The user interface structure

This new application's user interface will also be comprised of a single window, divided into sections using views as containers:

  • The top view will act as a header containing the application's title using a Label and a Button for interaction.
  • The second view will be the largest one of them all. Spanning most of the screen's height, it will contain a list of all the saved recordings.
  • The last section will be present at the bottom of the application and will contain a very large Button so that it is easily accessible, as shown in the following figure:
The user interface structure

Coding the application

Now that we have a better idea of how our application will look, and most importantly, how it will be structured, we will go ahead and translate that into code.

Let's do some scaffolding

We can start creating our window and views, and add controls to them. While these controls won't have any interaction (yet), it will be much easier down the road to implement interactions once everything is in place. As we did before, we will open the app.js file and clear all its content in order to have a clean slate.

Since every single application needs at least one window, ours is no exception to the rule. So, we will create one using the Ti.UI.createWindow function and set its title to Sili. We also need to add additional views and controls later on in the code, hence we store its reference in the win variable:

var win = Ti.UI.createWindow({
  backgroundColor: '#ffffff',
  title: 'Sili',
  layout: 'vertical'
});

Our top view will serve as a...

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to use the audio capabilities of Titanium. We also learned how to interact with the device's filesystem and how to read and write from the application data directory. Finally, we learned how to use the powerful table view's edit mode.

In the next chapter, we will learn how to save data on our device using a database.

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Key benefits

  • Walk through the development of ten different mobile applications by leveraging your existing knowledge of JavaScript
  • Allows anyone familiar with some Object-oriented Programming (OOP), reusable components, AJAX closures take their ideas and heighten their knowledge of mobile development
  • Full of examples, illustrations, and tips with an easy-to-follow and fun style to make app development fun and easy
  • Get empowered to build your own apps from the knowledge gained from this book

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Smartphones and tablets have really changed the technological landscape over the last 3-4 years. Much like the web did in the last decade, these powerful tools have changed the way people communicate and access information. Such a wide market creates opportunities for developers who have the skills to develop mobile applications. "Creating Mobile Apps with Appcelerator Titanium" is a practical, step-by-step guide to building iPhone, iPad, and Android applications using JavaScript. This book will give you a solid grounding of the dos and don'ts of mobile development and also covers a lot of the functionalities offered by the Titanium platform. This book begins with a look at what the Titanium platform has to offer. By taking you through clear tutorials on developing each application step-by-step, it helps you to apply your newly acquired knowledge afterwards. The difficulty level gradually increases along the course of the book. Each application from this book covers different aspects of mobile development. Every chapter starts by defining the application's features as well as the user interface structure. Every single code section is then explained and put into context allowing you to gain a clear understanding of their purpose and functionality. The book takes a “small milestone” approach, allowing you to actually run the application and see the progression. Every step is accompanied by many screenshots so you can see the expected result on screen. You will learn everything you need to know to develop your very own mobile applications. The book takes a laid-back approach to Titanium development and provides information in a way designed to never overwhelm the reader with information and also uses clear diagrams, screenshots, and tips throughout.

Who is this book for?

"Creating Mobile Apps with Appcelerator Titanium" is for developers who have experience with modern languages and development environments. Also, if you are familiar with the concepts of Object-oriented Programming (OOP), reusable components, AJAX closures, and so on, this book will help you leverage that knowledge in mobile development. This book will also cater to Titanium users who wish to know more about Titanium's broad range of capabilities and will help you to expand Titanium's basic set of features by using extension modules.

What you will learn

  • Create full-fledged applications using native components
  • Save your data using a database and interact with it using SQL
  • Interact with web services to retrieve data from external sources
  • Make your own adventure game (Japanese RPG style)
  • Bring a friend along on your epic adventure by adding online multiplayer to your game
  • Use Geolocation to interact localized data and display it on a map
  • Store your information in a centralized form using Appcelerator Cloud Services (ACS) and share this information with other users
  • Integrate your applications with popular social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter
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Table of Contents

12 Chapters
1. Stopwatch (with Lap Counter) Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Sili, the assistant that just listens Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. The To-do List Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. Interactive E-book for iPad Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. You've Got to Know When to Hold 'em Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. JRPG – Second to Last Fantasy Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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This book is written extremely well, and is a great intro to building apps in Titanium for beginners. Intermediate level programmers will also appreciate it as a quick read to familiarize yourself with the methods specific to the Titanium SDK and how to integrate various cross-platform functionalities. Some examples have already become a bit outdated, such as the Japanese style RPG game, since the original module was purchased by another company and is no longer easily accessible. (You can still find it in Github) Other than that, the skills you learn from this book will get you rolling with Titanium and their community and documentation can probably take you from there!
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L'auteur fait montre d'une pédagogie infinie, impossible de rater votre première appli mobile!Les exemples d'appli proposés sont de difficultés progressives et variées!Ce livre est un excellent investissement.
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Excellent! Well written and concise. Great examples. Very helpful. Thanks. Hope to see more titanium books like this in the future.
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It's a practical book with good examples and explanations. If you are a developer of mobile application in Titanium this is one of the recommended books for you. You'll have a good navigation on planing and coding apps in Titanium with practical cases.
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