Titanium.UI.currentTab is null?

Posted on November 18th, 2011 by thiswayup.
Categories: Mobile Dev.

For some reason Titanium.UI.currentTab sometimes returns null and you need a work around by defining it on a focus event on the tabGroup as a work around.

http://developer.appcelerator.com/question/98501/titaniumuicurrenttab-is-null

One of the pains with Titanium is the rather random situations when the built in properties for certain objects aren't set. Spent another hour looking at this same bug again and as soon I figure it out the saying ""Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me" rang loudly in my poor head.

This time I thought it best to write this down, to remind myself (and anyway one else). 

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Titanium Mobile App development and london web cruise

Posted on September 22nd, 2011 by thiswayup.
Categories: Mobile Dev.

I had an absolute ball at the London Web Meetup annual cruise where we set sail from Westminster, going back and forth between Putney and Greenwich on a nice river cruise. Always a blast having a bunch of geeks, booze and pizza whilst chatting over a range of subjects.

On the subject of talks, there was a chance of some lightning talk spots and I decided to give it a go with a very rushed presentation of my current fave platform, Titanium from Appcelerator. Titanium is a platform that allows you to build Iphone, Android and Blackberry mobile apps using javascript. Unlike Phonegap, it translates the UI elements into native controls which gives it a more native feel and generally faster response. I also feel that the offering though has a few annoying bits, will have a great future for knocking up apps in record time.

My talk can be found here on Slideshare here (be warned, may contain lots of mistakes).

Doing my talk as I'm passing by London Bridge
Courtesy of @gelle

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Learn Visual basic instead of Objective-C

Posted on November 13th, 2010 by thiswayup.
Categories: Mobile Dev.

I thought this was both hilarious and interesting, I just discovered Objective-basic! I've been playing around with Objective-C on and off for the past year ("I have that great app idea!") but I've also been thinking about whether its a bit pointless and we should just learn to use Phone Gap, Titanium or Grapple Mobile if you want to build Iphone apps (and not games). Objective-basic seems to be quite a good alternative, if you just want to build an Iphone App. Visual Basic is so straight forward, I think anyone can learn it. Plus I use to do a bit of visual basic "back in the day", this would be a great way to knock up an app quickly for most people!

PS A great post on the comparison on some of the ways to build mobile apps on stackoverflow

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