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I noticed that when using a none time/date picker, the standard text shadow that is part of the iOS native picker does not show. The time/date picker does however. Is there any way to add the text shadow a none time/date picker? None of the examples in the...

I am wondering if it's possible to de-activate the display again (black, nog brightness at all from the lcd) and activate it again after a timeout without having to unlock the screen again? Can't find it in the API nor in the Q&A. Any help or thoughts...

Hello, I'm wondering if there is a sense to create commercial(paid) desktop apps. I'm asking this question, because everyone can see Desktop Application's source. Or Javascript minification/packing/encryption will work fine? Well, in short, I would like...

I have a constat set up to be a full URL to rss feed like this: {PATH: "http://localhost/login.txt",...} on iPhone it works just fine, however Android is a bit different story, in terminal window i get: error data:...

Hi, I got pictures for Retina and standard Displays with abc.png and abc@2x.png. The problem is, that the Coverflow images look kind of unsharp. If I look at the picture on my Mac Preview it is much more sharper than the one on the iPhone. Any...

I want to develop a universal app. I thought my iPad app would work for both. It doesn't. I works for both devices in the emulator but not when I build it. As it stands I have to maintain two sources mobile and iPad. How can I achieve this?

Hi all, The question is as in the title. How can I create and use session variables for my app? In order to make myself clear I mean session variables like the ones used in web applications, global variables that all windows of the application can use....

Hi, I found the code to create a dynamic table from an external database (and php). Would be very educational in my opinion. Code found: https://github.com/donthorp/titanium_mobile_dynamic_table_demo Whenever I try to run this app it gives me an...

Hey, my application is running great on iPhone but on Android I keep getting this error whenever the file is called: ~~~ Wrapped java.io.FileNotFoundException:...

I have some issues with android in traversing a nodeList. I am using: `var nodeList = webView.evalJS('document.documentElement.getElementsByTagName("div");');` which returns a nodelist form within a webView eventListener. `nodeList.length`...

I am about to post up a job for an iphone / Android developer as i will be taking on more of a project manager type of role. Seems as i use Accelerator myself i thought it would only be fair to post the position on here first. The position will be to...

Hello. I'm trying to include native android code in titanium, as explained here: http://developer.appcelerator.com/doc/mobile/android/module_sdk I have tested that this works for a simple test file. However, I'm now trying to include a statusbar...

Hey, People of Titanium. My app is released in the Dutch App store (and Belgium and Luxemborg) and will soon be available in the rest of the world in English (give or take max 2 weeks from now). for those interessted and can read...

so what i want to do is, search for data x in the search tab, data shown in tableview, when i click a row a new tabgroup should open up. this is the code i currently are working with but it keeps on crashing. Any help on this? ~~~ // table is...

Hi, we're just getting started with Titanium here and having looked at the documentation, have a question regarding Titanium Desktop. Is it possible to use Titanium to write an application and then package it as a Mac OS X dashboard widget or Windows Side...

I am using an app in portrait mode and when i try to view the video in my app ,just i rotate the screen to landscape mode . But when i try to stop a video-stream,the app is move back to portrait and crashed. please provide any help regarding that issue..

I'm working with the latest Mobile SDK (1.6) on OS X. I have this piece of code: ~~~ var globalArray = [ {title:'foo',value:'yes'}, {title:'bar',value:'no'} ];...

when i use a image on toolbar like back button in one iphone then it is displaying as it is ,but when i try that pic in another iphone and ipod then it is distorted so please tell me ..what kind of problem it is that ? thanks in advance

Hi, As you know, when you take a photo with the camera, you get the image preview and 2 buttons: Retake and Use. The thing I'd like to do is to load the camera with a pre-taken photo and these 2 buttons. Is there a way to do that ? Because I didn't see...

Hi there, I'm following the [iPhone module guide](http://guides.appcelerator.com/module_ios.html). Everything works fine until I execute `titanium run` (page 8 of the PDF) [Here's the full log](http://pastie.org/1616106). I had to remove some lines...

Is it possible to use external libraries in Titanium when developing mobile applications? For example I have a compiled custom library that I would normally use in Eclipse Android project to call this library's APIs. Is it possible to do the same thing in...

Since we do not have an official job board in this forum, I'm posting this request here. If there is a better place to make this post, please point us to it. Our team is building an exciting mobile app in the entertainment space with about 75% of the app...

I want to make a free LITE version of my app with limited features and allow users to use in-app purchase to enable other features. I know there is apparently a solution from urban airship. But it's for apps that offer downloaded content upon purchase...

Hello, I'm trying to create a scrollableView when one tab of a tab group is selected. On Android simulator it works but on iPhone simulator it crashes during the launch image. I'm getting this error: ~~~ 'invalid method (createTab) passed to...

Thought I would share another ui component we created. It's a complete implementation of scrollable tabs, unlike the unfinished one in the Kitchen Sink. You can find all the goodness at my blog...

Hi, am absolutely new to the Appcelerator world!! wondering if anyone could assist me finding the answers to below: 1) i have install and setup the Developer app and mobile SDK for Andriod. do I need to install the Desktop sdk also to write and debug...

Hey all, I'm trying to use Appcelerator just to make a site-specific browser for my existing web app. I had previously been using Fluid and Prism, but for a variety of reasons (tough to distribute a self-contained binary, cross-platform issues, etc), I've...

Please see the code below. The annotation is attaching correctly and I can see the title and subtitle... but I cannot see the rightButton, rightView, leftButton or leftView... in whatever combination... am I missing something? ~~~ var annotation =...

We are researching whether or not Titanium Mobile would be a good platform to use for cross-mobile device development. We would like to target the major devices (Mainly iOs, Android, Blackberry (including Playbook QNX) and Symbian. To my knowledge,...

I would like to create Titanium desktop apps for distribution to private enterprise users, by publishing the packages on internal site. Is there a way to customize the packaging process to achieve that? Also how can I use the UpdateManager to only check...

I'm trying to set and read cookies with PHP, but with absolutely no luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated. `setcookie("testcookie", "this is the cookie", time()+60*60*24*3) or die("Didn't set cookie");` `echo...

My folder structure is: ~~~ ./images/ ./main_screens/ ./module_one/ ./module_two/ ./app.js ~~~ `app.js` creates a `TabGroup` and links to various screens in "main_screens". Everything works fine and dandy... the problem is referencing things from...

Hi, Ti-Dev 1.2.2 & SDK 1.6.0 on Android 2.2: Panning in a mapview doesn't work, if the window with the mapview is used inside a tabgroup. Only the initial map is visible, any panning ends up in an empty grid. Without a tabgroup panning works...

Hello ppl, Now I am trying to work with databases. It's still iPad 4.2 and Ti SDK 1.6.0. I am using Database.install and my application just quits on start. At first I couldn't see any error messages but then I found where the log file was. So it sais...

Hi everybody, in my application i have two image view and one is draggable. There is a way to understand when an image intersect the other image?

Hi Im trying to build my app to distribute it i follow all the step but it get stock forever in this "Creating android distribution..."  if someone...

Hi all, I'm using the final version of Titanium Mobile 1.6 under Ubuntu 10.10. My users are reporting issues regarding the password field. T9/auto correct is enabled although I've disabled this. I tried several methods too disable autocorrect when...

Hey... Is it possible to create a tableView in a js file and use it in another? I have an array that I make a tableView with, and I like to only create the tableView one time, and then reuse it on other pages. MG

When I create a new project and try to run it in emulator, it got error and xcode emulator wont launch. Can you please help? ================================================================================ Appcelerator Titanium Diagnostics Build Log The...

Hello ppl, I am trying to make "minimumFontSize" to work. It is for iPad with latest SDK 1.6.0. I've searched the forum and found that it should work as long as you define "width". So here's my code:...

Hi, I want to make an application in arabic. i have tab groups and tabs in arabic. ~~~ var tab4 = Titanium.UI.createTab({ title:'my text?', //in arabic window:win }); ~~~ My editor is encoded in utf-8. but squares are displayed instead of the text in...

var img1 = Ti.UI.createImageView({Image:'http://www.supercartelera.com/admin/'+carteleraList[i].Imagen,width:50,height:60,left:2}); this works on iphone but not in android

I have a SplitView with a Table in the DetailView. Each row of the table has a TextField in it. With the 1.6 update, when a user clicks one of the text fields, the table auto scolls either all the way to the bottom of the screen or all the way to the top....

Hope I can save a lot of debugging time out there. In this doc: http://developer.appcelerator.com/apidoc/mobile/latest/Titanium.Media.VideoPlayer-object The property: "mediaControlStyle" **Should actually be:...

Hi All, I'm doing a tutorial from Nettuts, located here: http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/appcelerator/drilldown-navigation-with-titanium/ However the sub menu's dissappear after traversing the menus a few times, is that related to titanium or the...

Hi, I have a tableView with about 30 rows, and somewhere else in my code, I'd like to be able to parse all the rows, but I can't find a way to retrieve the "row list". I've seen no tableview method allowing this, nor any property (something...

Hi everyBody!! I got a problem to remove an eventListener and I don't know what i am doing wrong. Can you help me? ~~~ row.addEventListener('click',function(e) { //db.execute('DELETE FROM LISTE_DETAIL'); var db =...

Hi I want to know how to integrate with Joomla on the application (iphone and android). Thanks

Hi I'm creating my app and I'm lost with the approach. I'm trying get rss results from an xml-file on an external server. So far so good and everything works like a charm, presented nice in rows with text and an image. In the xml-file I...

In a few cases where I'm closing a window that happens to have buttons added, the actual title of the button stays on screen even after the buttons themselves are removed. The titles just stay visible until the next window loads. Any ideas on how I can...