Appcelerator added Action Bar support for Android around Titanium SDK 3.0, and has been adding more support/changes for stuff like Action Bar Tabs and the Android Search View with each new SDK update.

Alloy Action Jackson demonstrates various Action Bar-related functionality using Titanium Alloy. I'll add more examples as I come across them, and maybe even post a how-to or three.

Continue Reading: Alloy Action Jackson: An Android Action Bar Demo App for Appcelerator Titanium

Appcelerator recently announced 450 thousand registered developers, which is quite a milestone in a world that celebrates numbers that end in 5 or 0.  Or both!  Joking aside, a larger community is full of good things, like more support for the product, more 3rd party development and more clients asking for Titanium development by name.  That last one is good for me, since that is how I pay the bills. Larger communities also mean ...

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I recently needed to clean up a data file in an Appcelerator Titanium project I was working on by removing the double quotes surrounding some numbers. This is pretty simple to do using Titanium Studio's handy regular expression functionality with Find/Replace.

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Today marks five years since I flew out of Tulsa to move to Mexico and continue life with Gretchen.  Man, what an experience! When we first started discussing moving to Mexico, we didn't have a set timeframe for either moving back or on to the next place.  I suppose I thought it would be 2 years, maybe 3, before we would be ready. As each year has passed, we occasionally ask each other 'everything good?' and the response has always been 'yeah!'.  

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Switching between standard and retina simulators is useful for checking your app's 2x graphics, but takes a few extra steps for switching using Titanium Studio and Xcode 4.3 and newer.

Continue Reading: How to Switch Between iPhone Standard and Retina Simulators for Appcelerator Titanium