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Appcelerator Titanium Smartphone App Development Cookbook Second Edition

You're reading from   Appcelerator Titanium Smartphone App Development Cookbook Second Edition Over 100 recipes to help you develop cross-platform, native applications in JavaScript

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2015
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ISBN-13 9781849697705
Length 368 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Building Apps Using Native UI Components FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with Local and Remote Data Sources 3. Integrating Maps and GPS 4. Enhancing Your Apps with Audio, Video, and Cameras 5. Connecting Your Apps to Social Media and E-mail 6. Getting to Grips with Properties and Events 7. Creating Animations, Transformations and Implementing Drag and Drop 8. Interacting with Native Phone Applications and APIs 9. Integrating Your Apps with External Services 10. Extending Your Apps with Custom Modules 11. Platform Differences, Device Information, and Quirks 12. Preparing Your App for Distribution and Getting It Published 13. Implementing and Using URL Schemes 14. Introduction to Alloy MVC Index

Working with Navigation and TabGroups

In iOS, we are used to seeing two classic methods of navigation: TabGroups and Navigation Windows. Both are very similar in the sense that they maintain a stack of windows that allow you to navigate between them, automatically creating a "back" link for you in iOS. But TabGroups differ; they provide Tabs that appear along the bottom of a window in iOS, and at the top in Android. With a TabGroup, you can switch between your main primary tab windows, and then subnavigate into those windows if required.

A Navigation Window, on the other hand, is just a single window. Think of it as a single tab from a TabGroup. You can open subwindows within it, but there are no tabs—also this is for iOS only.

In this recipe, we'll create an app that demonstrates a cross-platform TabGroup that will run on iOS and Android. We'll also create a variation of this app that uses a Navigation Window, and we'll deal with handling this in Android.

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