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My first app was approved and released in iTunes however, two days later I am still not seeing any data in analytics for it. I did recreate my project the morning of the production build. When does Ti Developer submit the guid to my analytics account? Is...

Is it possible to apply ellipsize or ellipsis to a label on the iPhone?

Hi guys, I've got a.. Math question, I guess. Anyway, what I'd like to achieve is this: a application which displays a map with the user's current location (I'm that far) and rotates according to the heading of the compass. Then, the hard part. I'd...

hi all, I would love to know if it possible to assign an OS specific global 'hotkey' keyboard shortcut to activate/focus a desktop application created with Titanium. Think of this as an application preference setting.

Hello My iPhone app works fine on Simulator, but on iPhone, my app is freezing on loading (Resources/Default.png) On Simulator my first window (Titanium.UI.createWindow) open as proper, on iPhone my window doesn't open I tried to delete the build, the...

We just launched our TSAzr app which was built with Appcelerator and I have to say that without the help of this community we couldn't have done it. Thank you all! <a href="http://www.tsazr.com">www.TSAzr.com</a>

This is for a desktop app. So I have my my index.php which is my main page that has a button on it. When I press the button I want to call a php script, update.php, that will query my database and fill a div on index.php with update.php output. Which...

Hello I want to show a message like receiving: 1KB, 2KB ... 100KB on my iPhone app When I download a image on my app How to get actual file size on ondatastream? ~~~ var xhr = Titanium.Network.createHTTPClient(); // ... xhr.ondatastream = function(e)...

Hello I created an application, that works fine on simulator, but after deployed on iPhone, the application doesn't work ~~~ alert(1); // Window var win1 = Titanium.UI.createWindow({ title: 'Will it rain today', backgroundColor: '#FFF', height:...

I've got everything up and running. I'm able to create projects, the Android SDK is detected properly. I try to launch the Kitchen Sink app in an emulator, but the apk won't install. The emulator is launched properly, and the only failure point is at...

Hello, I am looking for an Api for Android that captures and parses a text to a TTS engine. Can anyone help. Thanks.

Hello, I am looking for an Api for capturing SMS (Text messages) on arrival for Android. Can anyone help? Thanks.

I am using a category on a UIKit class (UIImage) in a module and getting an unrecognized selector error (for one of the selectors in the category). 1. Are Objective-C categories supported? 2. Is there anything special that needs to be done to get the...

Hi, and thanks for viewing. I need recommendations on the best direction to go for a project. I just began searching cross platform development and now understand the top players in this field but know little of their strengths and weaknesses or the niche...

Hi By default appcelerator adds navigation control along with two buttons in default app. What I want a navigation less app. User will switch to other window/screen by tapping the button I would add on screen rather navigation. How can I do this...

~~~ Ti.Media.showCamera({ success:function(event) { var new_image1 = event.media; if (event.mediaType == Ti.Media.MEDIA_TYPE_PHOTO) { ...

Fixed.

Is it possible to make an app that resides in the mac tray with Titanium desktop? I would really like to develop an app similar to those that are at the top-right corner of the mac bar. The kind that are next to the volume, wifi, and bluetooth control. Is...

Hi guys, I've upgraded to the latest version of Titanium, and it's been a pain. With a lot of trouble I've managed to get Android working, however, at the moment I'm not that interested in building Android apps.. iPhone apps, however, is a whole other...

I have a TabGroup in my iPad application with 2 tabs (each tab with an associated window). I have a button on the first window, that when clicked opens another new window using the function: tabGroup.activeTab.open( Ti.UI.createWindow({ title: "New...

My app was built with sdk 1.3.2 several months ago. It works okay as it is. I wanted to use sdk 1.4 when it came out but table views were extremely slow for me. Unfortunately nobody really...

In a tableview, I have two rows. Row 1 contains a textfield and row 2 contains a label. When the user touches the first row, focus is set on the textfield: ~~~ customerName.focus(); ~~~ When the user touches the second row, I remove focus with...

Hi all! Is there any way to dynamically add space to the **TOP** of a scrollView? Unfortunately, if I increase the contentHeight the space usually will always be added to the bottom. If not - is there any way to move the focus of a scrollView...

I would like to change the FBconnect/login button. The only way I've managed to do this is by editing the image in the Titanium source files. Is it 'okay' for me to alter this image? Or even any other way for me to do this? Thanks in advance for the help!

I'm packaging a database with my app and I can select/read from it, no problem. But when I try to write to it using data in a text area, it doesn't work. The app doesn't crash, but the changes don't stick. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Here's my...

If you have a barImage in a NavigationGroup, it deletes the title Text on child windows, only after one child window is called. The barImage works correctly on the parent and on the first child window called but not subsequent child images Code can be...

I want to wait for my HTTP request to return with an auth token before trying to use it -- but I can't get the async flag to open() to do anything. A minimal example to demonstrate my problem: ~~~ var xhr = Ti.Network.createHTTPClient(); xhr.onload =...

Hi! I just installed Titanium, went through "getting started" guide and decided to build my first app for Android. I did not change anything in default app.js. However, it fails to install on emulator. here is what I got: [ERROR] Failed...

Hi all, I'm trying to create an options menu in android, I have the following code in my app: in app.js: ~~~ var main = Ti.UI.createWindow({ titleid:'main', url: 'Views/Main_Window.js', PLATFORM: PLATFORM, hideNavBar:...

Hey developers, Is it possible to let my Titanium app, which runs background audio using [this hack](http://developer.appcelerator.com/question/47291/background-audio-in-14#113331), receive events using an eventListener, when the user has closed the app...

Hi, I'm interested in creating a menu/selection area like the iPhones built in dialer and also a view like when a phone call is active where you could rotate it to see the back of the view.. This is for a VoIP product to put it in context. Say during...

Hi! I'm using RSS.js from kitchensink to load a homemade XML into a TableView. I realize rss.js may not be the best way and kind of nooby, but i've got it working =) Anyways, I would like to use the Search function (from...

I feel pretty stupid about asking about this, I can't get JSS to work in a fresh 1.5.1 project. I use [this][guide] example, so I don't really know where I could go wrong... **app.js:** ~~~ Titanium.UI.setBackgroundColor('#000'); var window =...

Hi, Pardon my ignorance, I'm still learning a lot about Titanium Mobile... I'm looking to add editable text to a TableView on the iPhone on the right side of a row. [Here's an example of what I...

Hello, I am using mobile sdk version 1.5.1. On the click event of mapview, event properties of it like x, y and globalPoint are returning NULL. Is there any way to get its value.

Any idea on why the bar shows a blank title with a back button, then after hitting back it show the proper title? See images below:  ![Example 2](http://www.nsths.net/photo2.PNG "With...

The current continuous build 1.6 r43fff621 for the Mac OS X platform is not working: os says that the download is not a valid zip file!

I clicked by mistake on 'best answer' and now the question seems definitely closed. Is it possible to reopen a question?

I am sending the following push notification to my app: ~~~ {"aps":{"alert":{"body":"My...

Yesterday I posted that the example of the "Basic Animation" section (http://developer.appcelerator.com/guides/en/ui_design.html) is not working on Android. As I was not getting answers, I contacted them referencing my question... and **they...

When I try to create a socket, I get an error. Whats up with this? I am using 1.6 api on android with running 1.2.2 ~~~ var socket = Titanium.Network.createTCPSocket({ hostName:'google.com', port:50000,...

I am unable to get a background image for a window to show if I use a grouped style tableview on an iPad. What's even stranger is that the background is all grey. It does not show the standard, striped style. ~~~ var homeWin =...

Hi, I just installed Titanium developer 1.1.2 on OS X and used it to create a desktop application (made by html & javascript). I created the package using the installer type: network Everything runs fine if I install the package on a OS X virtual...

Hi, I working on a war game that allows people to buy extra armies for real money. The payment should be processed as an in-app purchase without any download. Do you know if +Commerce will also allow in-app purchases? Will Apple approve an application...

Anyone knows an event that is fired when view is added to window or any other display hierarchy element?

Hi I have a large JPG (let's say 1000px * 1000px) which contains a drawed map of a terrain. The image is viewed 1:1, which means only a small part of the image is visible. My goal is the possibility to navigate through the map with sliding the image up,...

Hi there, in reference to this thread ( http://developer.appcelerator.com/question/39111/does-titanium-support-drawing-overlays-on-native-map-view), i have some questions about using map view or using Google Maps API. First of all, in the referenced post...

How to fix the table "rubber band" effect.. I am trying this code ..but does not work. var tableView = Ti.UI.createTableView({ data:data, moving:false, style:...

I just can't seem to figure out the pathing just yet. The file is located at "Resources/data/dbfile.db" I have: var db = Ti.database.open( Titanium.Filesystem.resourcesDirectory + "dbfile" ); but all I get...

Hi, I am exploring the possibility of using Appecelarator/Titanium as mobile extender (mobile client) for our enterprise solutions. We have a middleware to extract data from heterogenous back-end systems and expose the same as web service. Also, there are...