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  • Rotate Android Emulator

    The Android Emulator is extremely powerful, and has a configuration for almost everything.  Below are the keyboard shortcuts to rotate the emulator. On Mac: Or If you have use all function keys as standard keys enabled. This setting is under System Preferences –> Keyboard On Windows: Or Read more about… Read more ⇢

  • Adding BackgroundModes to your Titanium Project

    Since the introduction of iOS 4 Apple has supported background services for the below listed specific tasks. Audio – The application plays audible content to the user while in the background. Location – The application keeps users informed of their location, even while running in the background. VOIP – The… Read more ⇢

  • KitchenSink on the Kindle Fire

    With the popularity of the Kindle Fire, I thought it might be interesting to see how I could use Appcelerator’s Titanium to develop for this new device. The Fire is based off a heavily modified version of Android 2.3.3 so it was pretty easy to get my first app up… Read more ⇢

  • Titanium: Reading Files in the Private Documents Directory

    The 1.8 release of Titanium contains several iOS 5 compatibility updates.  One of the more interesting updates is the installation directory for database have changed. In prior versions you could access the database like below: With iOS 5, Apple has introduced new guidelines that have altered the database installation directory. … Read more ⇢

  • Disabling the Titanium Studio Dashboard

    Titanium has a great and very active community. The QA forum is a great place to learn. The other day I came across how to turn off the Titanium Studio dashboard. I find the dashboard useful as far as seeing what is new from Appcelerator, but I know many want… Read more ⇢

  • Setting Your Location in the iOS 5.0 Simulator

    After upgrading my development tools to XCode 4.2 and iOS 5, I started to run into location unavailable errors when running in the iOS Simulator. Having battled with the Android Emulator over the years, I figured there was a new location services setting I missed. After a quick look at… Read more ⇢