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  • Using the Luhn Algorithm in Titanium

    The Luhn algorithm or “mod 10” algorithm, is a checksum used to validate a variety of identification numbers including those used by most credit card vendors. It was created by IBM scientist Hans Peter Luhn and described in U.S. Patent No. 2,950,048, filed on January 6, 1954, and granted on… Read more ⇢

  • Review : Augmented Reality using Appcelerator Titanium Starter

    Over the holidays I had a chance to read Trevor’s new book “Augmented Reality using Appcelerator Titanium Starter“.   Although I was a technical reviewer this was my first chance to read the completed book cover to cover. This book is a must have for any Titanium developer looking to explore… Read more ⇢

  • Creating Keyboard Shortcuts for Switching Tabs in Titanium Studio

    I’ve been using Titanium Studio quite a bit lately and noticed the default key mappings for switching tabs was not working for me.  Titanium Studio allows you to easily set your key bindings to anything. Below are the steps I used to create my tab switching shortcuts. Where is Key… Read more ⇢

  • Changing a Titanium iOS Module’s GUID

    Occasionally you will need to a module’s GUID.  This is commonly done to avoid licensing conflicts with open source modules. Updating a module’s GUID is a straight forward and simple process.  The below steps demonstrate how to change the GUID in your Titanium iOS custom module. Before getting started it… Read more ⇢

  • Opening Custom Url Schemas with Titanium

    Apple’s iOS implements a custom URL scheme is a mechanism through which third-party apps can communicate with each other.  This allows your app to launch other apps. Using this powerful iOS feature is simple, just provide the app’s url to the Titanium.Platform.openURL method. List of Custom Url Schemes Resources The… Read more ⇢

  • OneTok Android Titanium Module

    I am happy to announce the Ti.OneTok module for Android.  This joins the iOS module created a few months ago. The Module The Ti.OneTok module provides a wrapper around the OneTok SDK allowing you to call it from your Titanium Project.  The Ti.OneTok module is available for download from the… Read more ⇢

  • Titanium MapView ImageOverlays, TileOverlays, GeoJSON and More

    I’m happy to announce the latest release of the benCoding.MapView module. This is a big release that provides support for the following: TileOverlays ImageOverlays Scalable Annotations GeoJSON In addition to the above features the module’s memory footprint has greatly been reduced. The module is fully documented with samples demonstrating how… Read more ⇢

  • Supporting Different orientationModes in your Universal iOS App

    Recently I had a requirement to create a universal app that supported different orientation modes for iPhone and iPad.  There are two key points to implementing a universal app that support different orientations by device. Explicitly define your launch orientations in your tiapp.xml for both iPhone and iPad On Window… Read more ⇢

  • Setting the Minimum iOS Version for your Titanium Project

    With Appcelerator’s release of Titanium SDK 2.1.2 you can now specify the minimum iOS version in your tiapp.xml file.  This is a big step forward in managing all of your cross platform configurations in one file.  For me this has removed the latest need for a custom plist, Just add… Read more ⇢