Easier Android Development with Titanium
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Tips and tricks to make your Android development with Titanium as painless as possible. Android can be as functional and (almost) as performant as iOS with less 'if' statements. From #ticonf Australia, August 2013.
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Easier Android Development with Titanium
- 1. Jeff Bonnes twitter: @titaniumdev http://www.titaniumdevelopment.com.au Easier Android Development
- 2. Agenda • Android Market and Behaviours • Planning your App • Smarter Defaults • Tips,Tricks and Advice
- 3. Background
- 4. App Download Culture 0 25 50 75 100 iOS Android
- 6. Android by the numbers • Australian Market Share (Dec 2012) 0% 10.0% 20.0% 30.0% 40.0% 50.0% 60.0% 70.0% 80.0% 90.0% 100.0% iOS Android
- 7. Android by the numbers • Australian Market Share (Dec 2012) • US Market Share • Why?
- 12. Before you code • Target API?
- 13. Before you code • Devices / Screen Sizes?
- 14. Coding Approaches • Different Apps • Different UI Code • Different CommonJS Modules
- 15. Project Setup • dps vs pixels • density specific images
- 16. Project Setup • Other tiapp.xml values
- 17. Development Workflow • You are using TiShadow, aren’t you? • fastdev • Android 2.3 in Emulator, 4.x on device • Intel x86 Atom System Image: no Google APIs :-( • VM for Emulator • tracer.js
- 18. Navigation
- 19. Action Bar • Android 3.0+ only • Must use Heavyweight windows
- 20. Alternate Navigation • TiXUI • title • titleControl • barImage • rightNavButton • leftNavButton require('xui').createWindow();
- 21. Light vs Heavy Windows • Activity • Back Button • Animation • activityEnterAnimation • activityExitAnimation • Memory? • fullscreen • navBarHidden • modal • windowSoftInputMode
- 22. Images • Don’t allow Android to stretch images • Don’t use images for backgrounds (especially windows!)
- 23. Show only what you need • Things are S L O W E R • JSON Parsing • SQLite Updates • event firing • Load things only as you need them
- 24. Freeing Resources • Close Windows • Memory Debugging • Instruments first • then DDMS
- 25. Intents • Do less work - use less frameworks • See Titanium.Android.Intent
- 26. Packaging Tricks • Image Compression • uses-feature • Icons - drawables (http://ticons.fokkezb.nl/)
- 27. ThankYou! • twitter: @titaniumdev • http://www.titaniumdevelopment.com.au • https://github.com/jeffbonnes/TiXUI