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MoDevEast 2011

Posted by on Nov 29, 2011 in Android, Appcelerator, iOS, Mobile, Titanium | Comments 0 comments

Last week I won a free pass to MoDevEast! I am excited to attend the sessions and make new connections! From http://www.modeveast.com/: MoDevEast2011 is where developers and marketers gain the upper edge. If you are developing apps or mobile websites, targeting phones or tablets, staying ahead is paramount in this fast moving industry. The event will offer five tracks that hone development skills and sharpen mobile business strategy. For...

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Titanium Appcelerator Quickie: StackMob API Module Part One

Posted by on Nov 28, 2011 in Android, General, iOS, Mobile, Tutorial | Comments Comments Off

Editor’s Note: This post is cross-posted with permission from the Clearly Innovative blog, maintained by Aaron Saunders.   AND  This is an introductory post on using StackMob for the backend services of your mobile applications. The StackMob platform helps you build, deploy and scale your backend while making it very easy for you to add push notifications, social integration and more to your apps. Here is a blog posting on...

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Integrating an external library in an Android module

Posted by on Nov 11, 2011 in Android, Mobile, modules | Comments Comments Off

In my previous blog post I talked about the Module Development Guide reference modules available for iOS and Android and how you can use them to develop your own custom modules. That should provide you with a good foundation for your module development needs. But one of the primary motivations for developing a Titanium module is to expose the methods and properties of an external library. In this post we’re going to look at one way to...

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Forging Titanium Episode 14: Twisti Part 1 – Android Module

Posted by on Nov 9, 2011 in Android, Mobile | Comments Comments Off

Editor’s note: This and future episodes of Forging Titanium are available here. This week’s episode of Forging Titanium will be part 1 in a 3 part series. In this series we will be creating a fun little experiment called “Twisti”. In this app we’ll be taking on a whole host of advanced Titanium features, as well as leveraging both platform specific and web-based development capabilities. We’ll touch on...

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Platform Engineering: v8 Runtime Available in CI as 1.8.0.1

Posted by on Nov 8, 2011 in Android, iOS, Mobile | Comments Comments Off

It’s been a tough couple of months, but we have finally stabilized our dual runtime support for Android and have merged it onto our master branch! To help avoid confusion, we bumped the build number to differentiate the single runtime version 1.8.0 from the dual runtime version of 1.8.0.1. We have also decided to drop support for API level 7 (Android 2.1). You will need to ensure that you have installed API Level 8 and Google APIs...

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Forging Titanium Episode 13: Android Notifications

Posted by on Nov 2, 2011 in Android | Comments Comments Off

Editor’s note: This and future episodes of Forging Titanium are available here. In this week’s episode of Forging Titanium we step into the world of Android Status Bar Notifications. With these native notifications, you can more readily keep your users engaged with the current state of your app and its content. When you consider the fact that most mobile app’s sessions can be measured in seconds, that constant engagement...

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