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It appears the latest Ti release is incomplete. (Mac OSX) I'm able to compile and run android apps on a device, sign and package them (following this sites instructions to the t.) and they fail to work when packaged for the android market. We've had...

Okay, I give up. I have had 4 different Google Adsense accounts disabled, and have narrowed it down to Appcelerator Titanium being the issue. This time they said it is because I am using IFrames, which I am not, but apparently when using WebViews, it is...

Hi, i have the first window with a tab group of 3 tabs. i read data from xml and display them in table row and when i click on item. ~~~ row.addEventListener('click',function(e) { var winArticle =...

I've made a TableView where I add 2 sections separately, but I want to style the sections and it won't let me. I've tried the documentet way and tried the solution in this question:...

Hello! I am rather new att Appcelerator and I am trying to develop an app that receives information from an API. On a page I want to make multiple calls to the API with the createHTTPClient and then display the results from these calls onto the page in...

I want to make a very simple desktop app that displays a list of files in the users document folder (OS X). I have made a html5 + css3 layout for the listing. Thats was the easy bit. Now I have to write some code that looks in the document folder and show...

Hi. Does anybody know how to implement fading while input element is focused? Almost any input element in Apple's applications generates this effect - background becomes dark if input is focused. I use ugly hack with changing transparency of additional...

~~~ var search = Titanium.UI.createSearchBar({ showCancel:false, }); search.addEventListener('focus', function(e) { Ti.API.info('focus'); }); ~~~ This works fine in 1.6.0 but not in 1.7.0

Hello, I currently have a UI.TableView with entries and the Editable flag set to true, this enables the swipe-to-delete function which I am fairly happy with. Is there any way to customise the label on the "Delete" button or add extra buttons...

Impossible to test on device from titanium, after installing xcode 4 have you the same pb ?

Anyone aware of - if Titanium Desktop is able to load external dynamic link libraries? (.so / dylib / dll) ? I've searched through the docs and Q&A's but can't seem to find anything.

I am trying to make an app that has an & in the locale files and the compiler pukes unless I html encode it with %26. Is this a bug?

This seems like a naive question, but how do I detect the class of a Titanium UI object? Let's say I have an event e and e.source is the UI element that triggered that event. How do I tell if e.source is a Ti.UI.Label or a Ti.UI.ImageView?

I have just implemented the Pull To Refresh feature in my app. The only problem I am seeing is that the new appended rows using `tableView.appendRow(row)` are showing up at the bottom on the tableView. I need them to append to the top of the tableView. Is...

I'm using python with jquery to output a loop to the dom using "append", but the output appears in one hit at the end, not incrementally during the loop. Here's a simple example ~~~ countdown = 10 while countdown...

Hello, Is it possible animate the movement of a slider? A simple mySlider.value = 123; yields the slider snapping to position - I'm looking to animate that process. I've tried several things without success. I wrote my own function and it works but it's...

Recently my app started crashing in the android emulator on two different computers and the kitchensink will not install with the error: Failed installing com.appcelerator.titanium: pkg: /data/local/tmp/app.apk This occured after I updated via SDK...

I'd like to offer a free version of my app with iAds and then offer another one for $.99 without iAds. How would you deploy this? Is this is what the Appstore toolkit does? New territory for me here so looking for someone who's done this and took the...

Installed, detected iOS SDK, and if i try to build it it shows this: ~~~ Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Library/Application Support/Titanium/mobilesdk/osx/1.6.1/iphone/builder.py", line 1276, in <module> main(sys.argv) File...

My team needs some basic training and help this weekend/Monday. Just a couple hours getting up to speed on concepts and coding an Appcelerator app for the iPhone... looking at our project spec and guiding us on the best way to leverage the SDK. If you're...

(1.2.2) When I try to package a desktop app I always receive this error no matter what. "Packaging Failed. HTTP Status: null" Please help.

When i try to package my app of course after filling all the required data, including the keystore file (wich i created as in the tutorial) i get this error: Certificate chain not found for: AppXYZ. AppXYZ must reference a valid KeyStore key entry...

Im trying to pinch to zoom and panning an image like the images in the "Jersey Shore Yourself" App. I have found nothing here in the docs or q&a :-(

How do I get the image URL after I upload it to facebook. When I use the facebook GraphApi and hae the id returned upon successful upload I can not get any object properties. Any help is appreciated. Here is the...

Hello, I have to retrieve json datas from a server. It works fine. The only problem I have, is that I have to retrieve a lot of records to fill my table and it produce a quite huge json file. Is there a way to compress the json in server side (PHP) and...

Hi, is there a way to share a text on Facebook with Titanium mobile ? and how ? Regards

Hello, I need to upload some photos or videos to a server with my app. What happens if the user receive a phone call ? Does it continue in background ? If no, what should I do to finish uploading correctly ? Regards

Hello, just am trying to trigger an event based on the current time. For example: if it is 10:00 am some music is played, if it is 11:00 am a picture is displayed. Any ideas how this can be achieved using the Titanium API? Thank you

I have searched and searched the Q&A trying to find an answer this this issue with no luck. All the suggestions people have posted to try and change the iPhone statusbar style in an application do not work. I need to change the StatusBar to...

Does anybody know a module or JS file for highlighting the JavaScript Syntax in a TextArea?

I have a NavigationGroup with 5 windows in it. Now I want to check, which of these 5 windows is opened in the NavigationGroup. Is there a way to do this?

Is there any plan to have the geocoding services support geocoding zip codes? It's a pretty common requirement.

Hi folks, I'm using Titanium SDK 1.6.0 and iOS SDK 4.3, and trying to hook into geolocation to get the user's current location. I'm using code cribbed from the foursquare.js example in Kitchen Sink. However, when I try to make Titanium.Geolocation...

Hello I am trying to search all tweets with a given hashtag. I have a working code to search all tweets from a given user (for example @prayforjapan). Now I'm trying to get all the tweets from #prayforjapan. This isn't working.. Now to search for the...

Is there any ETA on when routes will be supported for maps on Android ? ~Brian

Hello I have a working twitter app (like the one in kitchensink) to get all the tweets from a user (for example @prayforjapan) Now I would like to show all the available tweets for that hash too. For example #prayforjapan. Does anyone know how to do...

Hi, I have a ScrollView that contains an ImageView. I'm attempting to mimick the feature in the Photos app on iOS devices whereby a photo zooms to the point on the photo where the user double-tapped. E.g. if you double tap in the top right hand corner,...

Does anyone have an idea if Xcode 4 and iOS 4.3 will work with Titanium Mobile 1.6 I want to make sure before upgrading my system. Thanks

Does anyone have an idea if Xcode 4 and iOS 4.3 will work with Titanium Mobile 1.6 I want to make sure before upgrading my system. Thanks

Does anyone have an idea if Xcode 4 and iOS 4.3 will work with Titanium Mobile 1.6 I want to make sure before upgrading my system. Thanks

Does anyone have an idea if Xcode 4 and iOS 4.3 will work with Titanium Mobile 1.6 I want to make sure before upgrading my system. Thanks

I have two strings.xml files in which I write some literals in order to have a multilingual application. But I have a problem since yesterday which is the following: I cannot see my app 'writing' the literals in my app, some I added yesterday are not...

Does anyone have some suggestions on how to add/clone/duplicate textfields or UI elements, example by clicking a "plus"-sign button or something similar?

Hi, What is the best approach (in terms of performance) to perform multiple insert query operation on sqlite3 db? I have to insert 4000 to 5000 records upon receiving the xml response from the webservice. Thanks in advance. :)

Hi , I have a question concerning how to restart the app. For now when I leave my app and reopen the app, I have my previous page visible, is it possible to force the application to restart every time you leave it? Thanks for your help

I have a single splash screen image (Default.png) for an Android app. No animation. I'd like to have the app display the splash screen longer, maybe 2-3 seconds longer than it is currently. Currently, the splash screen barely shows because it loads so...

Hello I am trying to integrate facebook into my mobile app. Does anyone know a good tutorial for this? I have found a few (not so clear tho) but they all need an App ID. So how do i integrate a page that isn't an app.. for example...

Hi guys, im new to this and having mac os 10.5.x I dont wanna upgrade to 10.6 so thats why im using the ios 3.1.2. I also downloaded the latest Titanium Developer 1.2.2 and kitchenSink 1.6.0. When im trying to "launch" the kitchenSink Project i...

HI, We developed an android mobile app using appcelerator 1.6.We have used FB plug-in for share and like feature. When ever we trying to connect to facebook using f-connect button , I am getting an error as "Sorry! The application 'APPNAME' (process...

I just converted a webapp I have been working on and Titanium is fantastic however some people are still getting these JavaScript errors they had got before I was never able to re-create thus the reason for my question why is there no event such as...