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Announcing Titanium 3.1.1 Production Release

Monday, June 17th, 2013

I am pleased to announce the general availability of our latest Titanium release, version 3.1.1.  In this minor release we addressed over 125 bugs fixes and included several enhancements. For a full list of all changes and improvements in this release, please read the release notes.

Android Enhancements

  • Google Maps v2
    •  Support “userLocationButton” property
      • Allows developers to turn on/off the user location button.
    •  Support “regionchanged” event
      • Provides the delta of the latitude and longitude.
    • Support “isGooglePlayServicesAvailable”
      • Allow developers to determine if Google Play Services are available for the app
  • Camera
    • Support “savePhotoToGallery” property. Previously, photos were automatically stored in the gallery. This property gives you the control to store or not store the photos.

BlackBerry Beta

This release also includes the latest version of our BlackBerry SDK beta, with integrated Studio support for creating and running BlackBerry apps.

Changes That Require Your Attention

  • Android SDK 2.3.3
    • We have increased the minimum Android SDK support from 2.2 to 2.3.3.
  • iOS 5.x
    • We have increased the minimum supported version of iOS from 4.3.x to 5.x.
  • Change of the calendar namespace
    • If you are using the calendar in Android our namespace has changed from Titanium.Android.Calendar to Titanium.Calendar. This means that you will have to change any areas of your code referencing Titanium.Android.Calendar to Titanium.Calendar.

Downloading 3.1.1

For new users, download Titanium 3.1.1 by clicking here.

For existing Titanium Studio users, you will be prompted to update automatically on the next restart. You can also manually check for updates by selecting the “Check for Titanium SDK Updates” from the “Help” menu within Titanium Studio.

If you previously installed the Release Candidate versions of the Titanium CLI and Alloy, that is, npm install titanium@3.1.1-cr, or any -beta or -cr packages, you need to first uninstall these components before installing or updating to 3.1.1.GA. The release notes contain specific instructions on how to do so.

As always I want to thank our 470,000 strong community of developers for your constant feedback and support.

Posted in , Android, Blackberry, General, iOS, Mobile Web, release_3.1, Tizen | 5 Comments »

3.1.1 Release Candidate of Titanium SDK/Studio Now Available

Friday, May 24th, 2013

We’re pleased to announce the release candidate of an update to our 3.1.0 version of Titanium SDK/Studio. Version 3.1.1 brings hundreds of fixes and improvements across both products. Today, we’re asking you to help test out the release and provide feedback before it becomes generally available in early June.

Note: This is a pre-production release, and as such may contain regressions or other issues. Please do not use it in production, and keep backups of all important projects and data. If you find an issue, please report it in JIRA with a reproducible test case. We ask you provide feedback by Wednesday, 5/29.

How to Update

These are links to continuous integration builds. To install them, choose “Help Menu > Install Specific Titanium SDK…” from inside Titanium Studio.

To update Studio, please visit http://preview.appcelerator.com and follow the instructions to update to the RC stream, or to download a new install.

NPM Packages

Note: You may need to use ‘sudo’ before these terminal commands on OSX and Linux
npm install -g alloy@1.1.3-alpha
npm install -g titanium@3.1.1-alpha
To revert back to stable versions:
npm remove -g titanium
npm install -g titanium
npm remove -g alloy
npm install -g alloy

Updates in Titanium 3.1.1

Read the complete Release Notes. A full list of updates is available here.

Changes in supported OS versions

3.1.1 now has a minimum supported Android version of 2.3.3 (API level 10). The minimum iOS supported version is 5.x, which requires Xcode 4.3 or later.

API Changes

We’ve updated Titanium.Calendar, and deprecated Titanium.Android.Calendar.

Tooling updates

Support for Android r22 tooling. See Updating to Android r22 Tools for information about supporting older SDKs. Note that this beta still has some issues with r22 tooling on Windows, but this will be addressed in the final release.

Google Maps Support

We added a new userLocationButton property and updated the regionchanged event.

BlackBerry Support

We’ve folded in the latest version of our BlackBerry platform to this release. It’s no longer a separate download.

Posted in Android, Blackberry, General, iOS, Mobile, Mobile Web, release_3.1, Studio, Tizen | 9 Comments »

Updating to Android r22 Tools

Thursday, May 23rd, 2013

Recently Google released an update (r22) to their Android developer tooling. This update has rearranged the directory structure of the tools and breaks the building of Android projects both from the CLI and inside Titanium Studio. Unless you need the updated functionality we recommend you hold off updating for now.

How do I know if I’ve run into this issue?

See TIMOB-13944. You’ll get a failure similar to “TypeError: argument of type ‘NoneType’ is not iterable”

How do I fix this problem?

There are a number of different ways to address the issue, depending on your goals:

If you want to use just the very latest version of the SDK, download the pre-release 3.1.1 build from http://builds.appcelerator.com.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html#3_1_X

If you need  to use prior versions of the SDK:

Posted in Android, General | 3 Comments »

Please Review ListView Phase 2 specification

Wednesday, May 8th, 2013

Last month as part of our 3.1.0 release we introduced a new, faster version of TableView called ListView. As a refresher, it has several key features:

  • Data-oriented vs view-oriented architecture
  • A separate module. Does not replace the existing TableView so you can migrate on your schedule
  • Extremely performant

We’re now working on phase 2 of that implementation. Please review the specification and add your comments by EOD 5/15 (Next Wednesday).

Link: https://wiki.appcelerator.org/display/community/Titanium+ListView+Specification

Posted in Android, iOS, Mobile | 4 Comments »

Titanium SDK/Studio 3.1.0 Beta Now Available

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013

We’re very excited about our newest release of Titanium—version 3.1.0. Today we release a beta of both SDK and Titanium Studio—the newest version of our Titanium platform. This release focuses on performance. Not only are we introducing the successor to TableView in ListView, we’ve made the whole iOS and Android platform faster.

How much faster?

  • Our new component, ListView, is multiple times faster than TableView
  • On iOS, we have an average 20% performance gain from 3.0.0 for the entire platform
  • On Android, we have an average 36% performance gain from 3.0.0 for the entire platform

In short, your apps should run better and faster under 3.1.0. Read on below, and for full information, please see the release notes.

Note: This is a beta release, and as such may contain regressions or other issues. Please do not use it in production, and keep backups of all important projects and data. We will follow with additional releases in the coming weeks. If you find an issue, please report it in JIRA with a reproducible test case.

How to Update

These are links to continuous integration builds. To install them, choose “Help Menu > Install Specific Titanium SDK…” from inside Titanium Studio.

To update Studio, please visit http://preview.appcelerator.com and follow the instructions to update to the RC stream, or to download a new install.

NPM Packages

Note: You may need to use ‘sudo’ before these terminal commands on OSX and Linux
npm install -g alloy@1.1.0-beta
npm install -g titanium-code-processor@1.0.0-beta
npm install -g titanium@3.1.0-beta
To revert back to stable versions:
npm remove -g titanium
npm install -g titanium
npm remove -g alloy
npm install -g alloy
npm remove -g titanium-code-processor
npm install -g titanium-code-processor

New Features in Titanium 3.1.0

The docs are all available at: http://docs.appcelerator.com/titanium/latest/

ListView

This release introduces ListView, a new Titanium proxy to replace the existing TableView. Both list view and table view present data to user as a vertically scrolling list of rows. However, list view uses a data-oriented approach versus table view’s view-oriented approach.

Alloy Updates

New collection binding functionality has been added. You can now also get Alloy content assist and debug Alloy applications inside Titanium Studio.

EventKit UI Framework

The iOS EventKit framework, allowing access to calendar events and reminders, is now available inside Titanium.

iOS6 Core Location AutoPause API

The iOS AutoPause API pauses the location updates when an application goes into the background. We’ve implemented access to this new API in Titanium.

iOS Retina simulator support

The iOS simulator now allows you to choose to launch in Retina mode on demand, rather than needing to switch the simulator manually.

A Slimmer Titanium Studio

We’ve been working on making Titanium Studio as lean as possible. One step we’ve taken is to break the server-side language plugins (PHP, Ruby and Python) into separate optional installs. If you need them, just follow the links at http://preview.appcelerator.com to add them back in.

New Platforms

BlackBerry

Our BlackBerry support will go into beta at the same time as 3.1.0 ships. Studio now supports creating projects as well as running them on simulator and device.

Tizen

Our newest platform, Tizen, is now a full member of the Titanium family. Use Tizen from inside Studio 3.1.0. Create projects and run on emulator and device.

New Modules

Facebook V3 (Android and iOS)

Our Facebook module is now updated to be compatible with the latest V3 version of the Facebook API. Download the updated beta module here: Android and iOS.

Google Maps V2 (Android)

As mentioned previously, we’ve updated our Android maps module to support Google Maps V2. Download the latest beta here.

Newsstand (iOS)

Publish a magazine or periodical! We’ve developed a new module for interfacing with Apple’s Newsstand service. Download the beta module here.

NFC (Android)

You can now read NFC (Near-Field Communication) tags from inside Titanium applications. Download the beta module here.

Posted in Android, General, iOS, Mobile Web, release_3.1, Tizen | 21 Comments »

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