Accelerated Native Mobile Development with the Ti gem

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MOBILE APP DEVELOPMENT WITH Ti Accelerated WYNNNETHERLAND

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D'oh! Sorry, will have to blind you with science.

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Isn’t she Sassy, folks? GET THE BOOK.

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sass40 Save 40% and get early access! Sadly, sass100 is not a valid code.

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And you are?

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So you wanna build a mobile app?

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Native vs. Web

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Why native?

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Obj C Java

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Titanium

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SINGLE JAVASCRIPT API

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COMPILES TO NATIVE CODE

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OPEN SOURCE! http://github.com/appcelerator/titanium_mobile

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Development options

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I’d rather not use your IDE. After fleeing .NET for the joys of Ruby

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Fortunately, there’s a CLI.

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DEMO A quick

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Fortunately, there’s a CLI. Unfortunately, it’s written in Python.

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Why should I care? I’m a Rubyist

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You'll still need a server API Rails, Sinatra, etc.

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Embrace your inner polyglot.

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COFFEESCRIPT

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var foo = function () { } foo = () -> I’d rather write this.

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var button = Titanium.UI.createButton({ title: 'I am a Button', height: 40, width: 200, top: 10 }); button.addEventListener('click', function(e) { alert("Oooh, that tickles!"); }); JavaScript

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button = Titanium.UI.createButton title: 'I am a Button' height: 40 width: 200 top: 10 button.addEventListener 'click', (e) -> alert "Oooh, that tickles!" CoffeeScript

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JavaScript Frameworks

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Underscore.js https://github.com/documentcloud/underscore

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STYLESHEETS

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var buttonOne = Titanium.UI.createButton({ title:'I am a Button', height:40, width:200, top:10 }); var buttonTwo = Titanium.UI.createButton({ title:'I am also a Button', image:'../images/chat.png', width:200, height:40, top:60 });

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// js var buttonOne = Titanium.UI.createButton({ id: "buttonOne", className: "button" }); var buttonTwo = Titanium.UI.createButton({ id: "buttonTwo", className: "button" }); // jss #buttonOne { title:'I am a Button'; width:200; height:40; top:10 } #buttonTwo { title:'I am also a Button'; image:'../images/chat.png'; width:200; height:40; top:60 } .button { height: 40; width: 200; }

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JSS work like CSS.

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But I don't even like CSS.

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SASS & COMPASS Fortunately, there's

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#buttonOne { title: 'I am a Button'; width: 200; height: 40; top: 10 } #buttonTwo { title: 'I am also a Button'; image: '../images/chat.png'; width: 200; height: 40; top: 60 } .button { height: 40; width: 200; }

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#buttonOne title: 'I am a Button' width: 200 height: 40 top: 10 #buttonTwo title: 'I am also a Button' image: '../images/chat.png' width: 200 height: 40 top: 60 .button height: 40 width: 200

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=button height: 40 width: 200 #buttonOne +button title: 'I am a Button' top: 10 #buttonTwo +button title: 'I am also a Button' image: '../images/chat.png' top: 60

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Ruby Oh yeah, and there's

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CODE DEEP DIVE

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Ti GEM

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gem install ti

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Generate.

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ti new

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ti new lsrc com.lonestarrubyconf.v iphone

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├── Coffeefile ├── Guardfile ├── LICENSE ├── Rakefile ├── Readme.mkd ├── Resources │ ├── app.js │ ├── app.jss │ ├── images │ │ ├── KS_nav_ui.png │ │ └── KS_nav_views.png │ ├── lsrc.js │ └── vendor ├── app │ ├── app.coffee │ └── lsrc │ ├── api.coffee │ ├── app.coffee │ ├── helpers │ │ └── application.coffee │ ├── models │ ├── stylesheets │ │ ├── app.sass │ │ └── partials │ └── views ├── build ├── config │ └── config.rb ├── docs ├── spec │ ├── app_spec.coffee │ ├── helpers │ ├── models

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ti generate

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Golf.Views.GamePlay.createScoreCardView = (options) -> view = Ti.UI.createView (options) view