An overview of what's new in the world of third party modules for Titanium in 1.8

1. WELCOME TO TITANIUM WEEK!
Day One: Titanium Mobile 1.8 for Module Developers
Kevin Whinnery
Jeff English and Dawson Toth
Shoukri Kattan

2. Titanium Mobile 1.8
For Module Developers

3. KEVIN WHINNERY
DIRECTOR OF
DEVELOPER RELATIONS
APPCELERATOR

4. Agenda
• Marketplace Update
• Forged UI Demo
• Module Changes for
1.8
• Q&A

5. Strong growth in the number of
modules in the Marketplace

6. More importantly, the utility and
quality has been great

7. Cloudebug
• Debug any Titanium app on the internet
• Execute Titanium code on device
• Also check out:
– DYNApp
– CloudeFire
– CloudeCache
– CloudeKit

8. Filterable Camera
• Apply filters to images
• Save file blobs returned by the camera
• 18 filters available
• Also check out:
– Repeated Background Image
– Gesture Recognizer
– Filterable ImageView

9. XML User Interface
• Declare Titanium UI in XML
• Separate view construction from behavior
logic
• Visualize UI better with nested structures
• Also check out:
– XML User Interface Demo

10. iOS Multitouch
• Multitouch support on iOS views
• Up to 11 touch points (?)
• Also check out:
– Zero Latency Sound

11. Couchbase Mobile (iOS)
• Embedded CouchDB database
• Attach and store binary objects
• Bi-directional replication
• JSON-based – great fit for Titanium

12. JSONDB
• JSON-based data store
• No SQL (No Schemas)
• Pure Titanium JavaScript
• Solid performance

13. And maybe most exciting of all –
drag and drop UI

14. SHOUKRI KATTAN
Technical Lead
FORGED UI

15. Technical Changes for Android 1.8
(iOS not affected)

16. Android Runtime Upgrade
• Total overhaul of
core Android
platform
• Implications for
module developers
• Working on
published API set

17. Steps for Module Developers
Read Jeff English’s docs
(http://bit.ly/mod-18)
Build module with multiple versions
(1.8+ and 1.7 and earlier)
Upload a combined zip file to
Marketplace

18. Technical Change Overview
• Manifest changes to
specify API version
• Android NDK
• Method Signatures
• http://bit.ly/mod-
tech-18

19. End Users and Module Changes

20. Project Walkthrough

21. Any Questions?

22. Thank You!