Welcome to day 2 with Titanium – Tables and pickers. A short reminder of what we’ve done till now:
Believe it or not, the table is the most used UI element in the iPhone SDK. If you play a little with the applications that come with your “iDevice” you will see that almost all the native apps have tables. Sometimes they are so well designed and the appearance so changed that you don’t even think of them as tables. But in time, while you will learn more, you will be able to spot it and a lot of ideas will come to you 
. Also I think that that the pickers are some sort of “undercover tables” so that’s why I’ll present both in the same tutorial.
Today is going to be the first day of the Titanium tutorial for beginners and a pretty long post.
Before we begin here is the recap of what we have written until now (and updated what will come): Seven days with Titanium – day 0 – introduction
As specified in the Introduction post I will try in this lesson to say some things about navigation, windows, views and tabs – the basics of the interface.
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.
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.
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.
MockApp.com gives you for free (you need only to register) a keynote document that allows you to mock up iPhone apps, and even simulate the behaviour ( of course without animation ).