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Axway Titanium iOS Project

This is a skeleton Titanium iOS module project. Modules can be used to extend the functionality of Titanium by providing additional native code that is compiled into your application at build time and can expose certain APIs into JavaScript.

Naming

Choose a unique module id for your module. We usually stick to a naming convention like ti.map or titanium-map to make it more easy to find Titanium modules in the wild.

Components

Components that are exposed by your module must follow a special naming convention. A component (widget, proxy, etc) must be named with the pattern:

Ti<ModuleName><ComponentName>Proxy

For example, if you component was called Foo, your proxy would be named:

TiMyfirstFooProxy

For view proxies or widgets, you must create both a view proxy and a view implementation. If you widget was named proxy, you would create the following files:

TiMyfirstFooProxy.swift
TiMyfirstFoo.swift

The view implementation is named the same except it does contain the suffix Proxy.

View implementations extend the Titanium base class TiUIView. View Proxies extend the Titanium base class TiUIViewProxy or TiUIWidgetProxy.

For proxies that are simply native objects that can be returned to JavaScript, you can simply extend TiProxy and no view implementation is required.

Get started

  1. Edit manifest with the appropriate details about your module.
  2. Edit LICENSE to add your license details.
  3. Place any assets (such as PNG files) that are required in the assets folder.
  4. Edit the titanium.xcconfig and make sure you're building for the right Titanium version.
  5. Code and build.

Build time configuration

You can edit the file module.xcconfig to include any build time settings that should be set during application compilation that your module requires. This file will automatically get imported in the main application project.

For more information about this file, please see the Apple documentation.

Documentation

You should provide at least minimal documentation for your module in documentation folder using the Markdown syntax.

For more information on the Markdown syntax, refer to this documentation.

Examples

The example directory contains a skeleton application test harness that can be used for testing and providing an example of usage to the users of your module.

Install

  1. Run appc run -p ios --build-only which creates your distribution package
  2. Switch to ~/Library/Application Support/Titanium
  3. Copy this zip file into the folder of your Titanium SDK or copy it to your local project

Register the module

Register your module with your application by editing tiapp.xml and adding your module. Example:

<modules>
  <module version="0.1">__MODULE_ID__</module>
</modules>

When you run your project, the compiler will know automatically compile in your module dependencies and copy appropriate image assets into the application.

Using the module

To use your module in code, you will need to require it.

For example,

var myModule = require('__MODULE_ID__');
myModule.foo();

Pure JavaScript modules

You can write a pure JavaScript "natively compiled" module. This is nice if you want to distribute a JavaScript module pre-compiled.

To create a module, create a file named MODULE_ID.js under the assets folder. This file must be in the CommonJS format. For example:

exports.echo = (content) => {
  return content;
};

Any functions and properties that are exported will be made available as part of your module. All other code inside your JavaScript will be private to your module.

For pure JavaScript module, you don't need to modify any of the Swift module code. You can leave it as-is and build.

Testing

Run the appc CLI to test your module or test from within Xcode. To test with the script, execute:

appc run --project-dir <your-module-directory>

This will execute the app.js in the example folder as a Titanium application.

Distribution

You can either open source your module or distribute your module via the Appcelerator Marketplace.

Cheers!