What is all about?

I intend this to be a set of seven tutorials to help beginners understand how to work with the Titanium mobile framework.

The guys at Appcelerator did a great job with the framework allowing to us, the web developers, to have access on native applications for mobile devices ( Apple iDevices, Android and soon BlackBerry).

The framework reached the 1.4 version and each day more developers seem to be interested in using it – especially because it’s free. The community is great and you’ll find answers on almost any problem you might have. But for the beginners is still a little difficult to start. From here surged the idea of this set of tutorials in which I will try to cover the basics of the development process for iPhone and Android.

Help your children learn the alphabet by using this interactive, voice-based application with colourful cartoons and letters.

This educational application is based on 2 activities: one for learning the letters through examples (a female voice pronouncing the letter and the associated cartoons) and one for playing with the newly learned letters by choosing the correct one from a list of five.

The entire game is voice assisted allowing your child to start a session of learning or playing without the help of an adult.

We just launched kids-apps.mobi, a showroom dedicated to gathering in one place iPad and iPhone/iPod touch applications for children.

It intends to be a collection of only the best applications for your kids offering a easy way to find what you are looking for without the need of searching the entire Appstore for this.

We have launched the first ebook “Fairy Tales” by Brothers Grimm which contains a set of 62 beautiful bedtime stories.
It is built as an iPad application available for download on Appstore.

The application has a beautiful and usable interface allowing the user to choose the font, the size of the text and to switch to night-mode for a better reading experience during the night. It saves your current reading position in realtime so you can close the ebook at anytime and return to reading it later.

A true iPhone or Ipad combobox that allows you to use the same textfield to input arbitrary text or select a value from a UIPicker element. All built with Titanium Appcelerator to include in your iPhone application.

How to create a countdown timer for your iPhone with Titanium Appcelerator. Source code available for download.

Google came with a new idea in their list of web toys.: a font directory that allows you as a web developer to include some “fancy” fonts in your pages without struggle. We prepared a tutorial to teach you how to play with this new API and a test page so you can download the code and use it in your website.

Ingredients:

sprites, unorderdered lists, Mootools knowledge.

Cooking time:

1 hr

Result:

Can be seen on our website – Rborn Web development – mouse-over the top menu.

How to create a tooltip to those that are using Titanium to develop their iPhone apps. Download the code and test it by yourself.

In this post I will explain how to create custom rows for TableViews using Titanium Mobile. The project source can be downloaded to play with.