March 2013
Intermediate to advanced
151 pages
3h 47m
English
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Chapter 4. A Hello World App
We’ve talked a lot about building apps in the previous pages and now we’re going to get our hands dirty getting something up and running.
Building Your First App
The first thing you do to create an app is to select New Project in Titanium Studio. This presents you with a New Project Wizard that will give you several options to select from (Figure 4-1). The options we’ll focus on for this book will be the mobile ones.
Note
Titanium is capable of creating desktop apps as well as mobile apps. Desktop apps are out of the scope of this book, so we’ll just focus on mobile apps for now. Appcelerator recently “spun off” the Desktop portion of Titanium into its own open source project. This allows Titanium Mobile to focus on the mobile side of cross platform apps.
Selecting the Titanium Mobile Project option gives you Figure 4-2. The fields you can fill out here are:
- Project name
This is a unique name you choose for your project.
- Use default location
Leaving this checked will cause Titanium Studio to generate and save your project files in the default location. Unless you have a good reason to store it somewhere else, leave this checked.
Figure 4-1. Titanium Studio New Project dialog- App Id
This is an important piece of information used when you upload your app to the App Store or Android Marketplace. When you start a new app in Apple’s App Store, you have to set this field ...
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