This tutorial is heavily based on Rupert’s article here. However, the steps in this article are very different on some points. There are some steps that I had to figure out using other sources. Generating OpenStreetMap tiles database We’re going to use downloadosmtiles.pl to download OSM tiles for a specific region. Download, compile, and install [...]
In Android, if you provide custom background images for buttons, you will lose the pressed and disabled image effects. The common way to fix that is to provide additional images for those states. I’m lazy and I find this inconvenient especially during the prototyping phase of app development. I’ve always liked the way iOS automatically [...]
I discovered this by accident. It’s probably been there for a long time but I just noticed it now. Normally, if you have very few rows in your table, it would look like this: Notice that I only have 2 rows. The other empty ones still have empty separator lines. Sometimes that’s not what you [...]
I was working on a utility class and was playing with the idea of using the id of an object (e.g. NSObject) as a key in NSDictionary. Setting it directly doesn’t work though: NSObject *obj = [[[NSObject alloc] init] autorelease]; // we’ll use this as the key NSMutableDictionary *dict = [[[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init] autorelease]; [dict [...]
PicPing is an iPhone app we just released as part of the Globe MobApp Hunt. It allows you to connect your Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and Tumblr accounts. You can then take photos and upload it to all your accounts in one go. It is now available for download on the App Store. I made this [...]
We made these a few months ago: iPhone and Android apps for PicLyf. The iPhone version was made using Titanium Mobile while the Android version was made using good ol’ Java. This was actually the first time I worked with Java. I learned the language as I went along with the project. I would say [...]
Instantiated windows and controls in Titanium Appcelerator act like JavaScript objects. JavaScript allows you to create custom properties in objects even when that property is not defined. You can take advantage of this in Titanium to pass some information to a window that you are about to open. For example, on a clean project, you [...]
I’m currently working on our first mobile app for PicLyf called PicLyf Snap. I’m also working on our API (OAuth) at the same time. I’m using Appcelerator Titanium Mobile for both the iPhone and Android version. Titanium allows you to build native applications for these platforms using only JavaScript. It is a good tool for [...]