The Android emulator is slow – really slow. Thanks to Intel we can speed it up with the x86 Emulator Accelerator (HAXM), but as you can tell by reading the Appcelerator blog or even Alberto’s shorter version it’s not that easy to set-up. What we really need is Genymotion – the fast en easy to use […]

I just added a CommonJS module to my UTiL repo, providing cross-platform UI elements to Titanium Alloy. For now, XP.UI only provides a cross-platform wrapper for NavigationWindow, but iOS-specific views like PopOver will follow. Why? Alloy does a great job at supporting single-codebase cross platform apps by providing conditional tags and constants, but you still […]

Push is one of the things you should add to any app, even if at first you’d only use it for broadcast messages. It’s the best way to keep in touch with your users, even when – or exactly because – they haven’t used your app for months.

NOTE: There’s a better way to do this described here. Quoting the Titanium API docs: Prior to Titanium 3.0, menu items could be added to the individual windows of a tab group. Starting in Titanium 3.0, menus must be added to tab groups using the tab group’s activity. These changes were required to support the […]

With iOS7 Apple introduced a new kids-category in their App Store. To be listed, apps have to meet some additional guidelines, including “Apps primarily intended for use by kids under 13 must get parental permission or use a parental gate before allowing the user to link out of the app or engage in commerce.”

Last month I wrote a blog on how to set up your app to be opened by using an URL. Now let’s look at how do that from an email or webpage.