Tag: alloy

At first, you got a nicely structured Alloy controller, but as you go on, new features keep getting added, and slowly but surely you...

Dear Geek,   Can I detect that a screenshot has been taken (like Snapchat does) on my Titanium mobile app for iOS?   —   WATCHING FOR SCREENSHOTS Dear...

Dear Geek, I want to allow users to take a screenshot of my app when submitting a troubleshooting ticket. My app is built using Titanium...

Dear Geek,   I have built a mobile app for iOS and Android using Titanium and I want to embed a custom font that I can...

Titanium when used with Alloy MVC is an incredible fast way to build cross-platform native apps using XML, JavaScript and TSS (Titanium Style Sheets). Using...

Exploring the power and extensibility of Axway Titanium Alloy In Part 1 of this series, we talked about the different ways you can use and...

JavaScript like many languages can be prone to memory leaks in certain situations. If you’ve developed in JavaScript, you might be familiar with a...

Developing cross-platform, native apps with Titanium is easy using Alloy MVC. And, one of its most powerful features is the ability to theme apps. With...

Companies around the world use Axway’s development tools to build incredible mobile apps, from the budding developers in the Code to Inspire program in...

A nice feature of Titanium and Alloy is the ability to create controllers and be reactive to triggers OR call methods without creating a...

Linting tools allow developers to discover problems with their JavaScript code – either while coding and before running the app or during the compilation...

If you have been working with mobile apps very long, you have probably have seen that APIs are a huge chunk of your workload....

This guest post was authored by Adam Armstrong. Adam has been using Titanium since 2010 and is an Appcelerator Titan. He is the Manager...

Add more power to your mobile apps by tapping into custom code. Titanium is one of the first cross-platform native solutions for building mobile apps....

If you're building cross-platform, native mobile apps with Titanium, you may have come across a need to have an app name that includes special...

One of the cool new features of iOS 12 is Siri Shortcuts, a way to enable Siri to interact with apps to perform specific...

Styling in Titanium is done by applying properties to a UI component. In both classic and Alloy, this is done by properties. myUIElement.backgroundColor = "#ffffff";   In...

I once read someone on Twitter say that “Type is the one constant across all screen sizes” — it’s true if you don’t include...

Last month, we explained some of the benefits of using Alloy instead of classic Titanium to build your apps. So, if you've got a...

There are a LOT of good reasons for using Alloy to develop mobile apps with Titanium! In this post, I'll explain some of my...

Titanium + Alloy is the fastest way to develop cross-platform, native mobile apps. Not only does Alloy use a Model, View, Controller paradigm (MVC),...

One of the many great features of Alloy (and I’ll be covering more in an upcoming post) is how it separates the business logic...

Creating Cross-Platform Alloy Tags One of the great features of Alloy is the ability to customise and write Alloy tags. I use this feature a...

There are plenty of ways to re-use components with Alloy: widgets, CommonJS, and even redefining or creating new Alloy tags. One way that’s not...

In Part 1, we showed how it was possible to use Titanium and Alloy and the built-in Backbone to manipulate user-interface elements, turn on...

One of the many great features of the Alloy MVC framework is how it uses Backbone.js for events and data-binding. I’ve posted before on...

If you’re developing apps in Titanium and Alloy, you’ve probably used the Backbone to bind collections and models to Tables, ListViews, Views and other...

In the first part of this series, we looked at using the Titanium Alloy MVC framework, with its built-in Backbone.js data-binding, to easily bind...

With the Titanium Alloy MVC framework, developers can take advantage of built-in data-binding using Backbone.js, making binding data to views incredibly easy. Traditionally in Titanium,...

In this post, Jason Kneen describes some simple techniques that can be used to reduce Titanium application file size.

This guest post was authored by Adam Paxton and originally published on adampaxton.com. Adam is a freelance mobile app developer for Polanco Media, and...

This guest post was authored by Adam Paxton and originally published on adampaxton.com. Adam is a freelance mobile app developer for Polanco Media, and...

Note: This post was originally published on Medium. Rene Pot is an Appcelerator Titan, long time member of the Titanium community, and runs the...

Developing Titanium apps with Alloy means following a Model View Controller (MVC) pattern -- views are XML-based, Controllers contain JavaScript code and data is handled using...

Note: This post was originally published on Medium. Rene Pot is an Appcelerator Titan, long time member of the Titanium community, and runs the...

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This blog post refers to a previous version of Alloy. For updated Alloy reference see the Official Alloy Guides. The following is the first in...