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Hi, whatever version of appcelerator I use, the default splash screen image is always "shifting" to the left just before the actual app starts up. I get this behaviour only on iPad, in the simulator as well as on device. If I hold the device in...

I need to launch my Android app on boot of the OS. Worst case, I can use a 3rd party app like LaunchAfterBoot to achieve this, however I was hoping to get it working using the AndroidManifest settings. On AndroidSnippets -...

Device can run Kitchen SInk fine, but for all of my projects, it installs fine then hangs on the Splah screen. Suggestions or help welcomed, below is the output from DDMS, I can supply any bits of code for reference if you tell me what might be of use....

Well i've tried for weeks to solve this issue on my own, but have had no luck. I'm having a startup crash with my app on certain versions of Android (3+). I've examined the console output, but i'm not really sure how to accurately debug with Android...

After editing the Java_Home Enviromental Variable and changing it to how it says on the DOCs i am still recieving error `[ERROR] Application Installer abnormal process termination. Process exit value was 1 [INFO] logfile =...

Hi My iOS app needs to run an event every time it is opened by a local (or push) notification alert. The problem seems to be that the Ti.App.notification event is not captured by the listener when the app is not in background, probably because it is not...

I'm running mobileweb app files locally on the desktop. When app launches it seems to be preloading or indexing all the files because when I add more files it takes longer to start up. Anyone know where or why it is doing this?

Hi, i developed an app that sometimes go immediately to background on startup. I use 2.1.1 framework and developed for iOS, otherwise if i use 2.0.1 works fine. The App don't crash, go to brackground. Thanks for your answer.

Hello, I made a small application for Android (2.2). It works fine, but every now and then it freezes on the splash screen and I have to restart it in order to work. It usually starts up regularly and only sometimes freezes so I can't quite find out where...

I installed the Mac download and when I start it up I can't get past the pop up image. It immediately gives an error which sends me to the log file. Is this a version problem? Anyone?

After a rebuilt with the lastest SDK 2.1.0GA the app (which worked fine in an older release 1.8) now sometimes crash at startup (when the splash screen is displayed) on my iPad 2 (haven't seen the crash on an iPhone 4 yet). Restarting it immediately works...

Hi guys, I'm using a MBP 13' 2010, 4GB Ram with Intel C2D 2,5 Ghz right now with a Crucial M4 SSD and my main problem is how long it takes to run my project in simulator. (iOS iPad 5.1 SDK project) Is there any way to speed things up? I mean, even for a...

Im having trouble with the customization of splash screens. If i add a custom default.png file (just overwrite the appceletator one) its working fine on the emulators (iPhone/Android) But when i build it and test it on the actual devices its just not...

App type : Mobile, iPad only SDK : Titanium SDK version: 1.8.0.1 (12/22/11 13:09 fbdc96f) Built on OSX 10.7.2 and XCode 4.2 I've been facing a tracing kind of big problem lately and finally posting a request for help because I can't get over it. My...

Howdy! When my app starts up, it's making two JSON calls that grab two lists of stories, and then displays those stories. It works perfectly in the simulator. When I load the app on my iPad, this happens: 1. I launch the app and the title (default.png)...

I create a new project from Ti Studio. It runs in the iPad simulator but exits at startup on the iPad device - you can shortly see the splash screen. I use Xcode 3.2.5, target is iOS 4.2. Up to SDK 1.7.3 everything was fine. But I need the fix of the...

I set up dedicated splash screens for all orientations using Default-LandscapeLeft.png etc. The problem is that when I launch the app in landscape mode- after it loads the correct landscape spash screen- it switches to the portrait splash screen for a...

I see the following functions in the Module Dev Guide Examples on github and I want to know if there's a way to pass arguments to a titanium module before startup() is called. ~~~ -(id)_initWithPageContext:(id<TiEvaluator>)context { // This method...

Hi, - the Titanium Studio crashes on startup - half year ago, everything worked fine - I made all updates form OS (still snowleopard) and Studio I want to get it work! Hardware: MacBook Air OS: OSX 10.6.8 Titanium Studio: VERSION 1.0.4.201108101535...

Is there any way to avoid the rotation animation at startup while using Titanium.UI.orientation = Titanium.UI.LANDSCAPE_LEFT; ?

Windows 7 desktop. It was running, had to uninstall. Now: (anyone know why?) !SESSION 2011-09-26 09:32:23.799 ----------------------------------------------- eclipse.buildId=unknown java.version=1.6.0_24 java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc. BootLoader...

Hi there, I want to check out the Titanium Studio on my computer (XP SP3 and jdk 1.6u24). So I downloaded the Install-File. The installation worked fine, but after I launch the Application and set my Workspace (C:\workspace-titanium) I received an...

I have a setup function that I want to call at startup. I assume it would be running in the app.js file, using the resume event. But the resume event is called often. Is there a way to call something like a STARTUP event and only call it when the app...

I need to perform some early startup code to see if a user is logged in and, if not, present a login form which, in turn, will perform a bunch of tasks relating to creating an account or logging them in. Where's the best place to do that? I was assuming...

Hi It's a possible to execute a function only at first startup application? Best Regard

Recently I found a bug in iPad, application "nbc" has the same bug: If I want my iPad app orientation only support LANDSCAPE_LEFT and LANDSCAPE_RIGHT, first, update the file "tiapp.xml" &lt;orientations...

Hi all, I'm really confused... My Android application was **building and running** until a few hours ago... I just changed a few lines linked to the *Locale* strings `L('textName')`... Only 2-3 lines, and now each time the application installs on the...

can anyone explain this error: 06-07 09:23:26.403: ERROR/TiDbHelper(312): (main) [200,734] Problem retrieving data from platform: 06-07 09:23:26.403: ERROR/TiDbHelper(312): android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDoneException: unknown error 06-07 09:23:26.403:...

Hi Even with the latest mobile SDK 1.2.0, Setting the tabGroup.setActiveTab(2) still does not open the tab page on startup. Anyone got a work-around?

Closed my laptop when I left work. When I got home and opened it, it had restarted. Now when I go to open Titanium Developer it instantly crashes. So I can't even open it now. Any ideas on how to debug this or figure out what is going wrong?

Hi! I have a serious problem with my app "MyTestApp". It runs on iOS 4 without any problems. Now I tested it on iOS 3.1.3 (using an iPhone 3GS) and it crashes all the time during startup. The start screen is shown for about 2 seconds, then the...

I had earlier posted about issues I had with getting Appcelerator up and running. Hal was kind enough to provide some guidance. I have installed the 1.5.1 SDK and backed off from the 2.3 to 2.2 version of the Android SDK. Now when I try to launch the...

A fresh installation of Titanium Developer won't start, I get the 'Titanium Developer appears to have encountered a fatal error and cannot continue' dialog. Here are the contents of my tiapp.log if I run with --debug: http://pastie.org/1382654

How do I add custom startup options to the emulator (especially android), e.g. to enable the root shell for admin shell commands?

I can't quite figure out how to trap the app startup and shutdown events. I have a tabGroup with 5 tabs in it, and I've tried trapping the following events: ~~~ tabGroup.addEventListener('click',function(e) { Ti.API.info("tabGroup...

Is there any way to hide the splash screen and go directly into the app? I also need for the app to be useable ASAP - is there some minimum startup time that will always make the app unavailable on startup?

I have an iPad project which outputs this: [INFO] Compiling JavaScript...one moment [INFO] No JavaScript errors detected. [INFO] One moment, building ... [INFO] Titanium SDK version: 1.4.0 [INFO] iPhone Device family: ipad [INFO] iPhone SDK version:...

I installed Titanium on my Mac, it runs fine under one user account but crashes immediately on startup on the other user account. Crash details can be found...

I am looking into using Titanium as a replacement for Adobe Air (YAY), but I can't seem to find details surrounding one feature Air offers, and my app needs. I need to be able to have my app launch as system startup. Its a notifier app that needs to...

since todays release my startup animation is borked. i used to display a window within app.js that is displayed after the default.png was loaded (it's the same picture, but will stay until a region of the pic was touched). with 1.2.0 the picture moves from...

Hi IS this still a bug? tabGroup.setActiveTab(index); Regardless of index, App always open with the 1st tab window during startup. Read somewhere that this was a bug.. Is it still?

is there anyway to detect if its the first time this app was launched? (iphone) Reason being I want to use:Titanium.App.Properties.setString('String,mystring') if this is the first time it was ever ran. please please help this is a headache