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  • Setting Your Location in the Android Emulator

    It seems almost all of the Apps I write these days are location aware in some regard.  I’ve written here about the new iOS Simulator’s location setting and wanted to show the same for the Android Emulator. There are several different ways to sent the emulator’s location information. Since I… Read more ⇢

  • 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 ⇢