NYC Titanium User's Group - 12/13 Organizer Topics + Presentation Video
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In this presentation for the NYC Titanium User's Group, Andrew McElroy, a Titanium Certified Expert and Certified Instructor, explains the advantages of using Behavior Driven Development (BDD) for creating automated tests to improve the development of Titanium and Alloy applications. He also discussed his TiCucumber library which enables the seamless use of Cucumber with Alloy.
NYC Titanium User's Group - 12/13 Organizer Topics + Presentation Video
- 1. NYC Titanium Users Group December 3rd, 2013 TOPICS Organizer topics Feature: Behavior Driven Development for Titanium Andrew McElroy Open discussion NYC Titanium Users Group 1
- 2. Thanks to our Sponsors! Appcelerator, Inc ! JetBrains ! OReilly ! Manning Publications NYC Titanium Users Group 2
- 3. Titanium News Since October meetup Titanium 3.2.0 SDK/Studio Beta is available (change notes) GA expected mid December Alloy 1.3.0 (change notes) Child elements for Widget and Require elements XML element properties for ListView, ListSection and TextField SQLite Sync Adapter: models may be fetched using the ID attribute New pre:load Alloy compiler hook Animation built-in API to support 鍖ipping a view Titanium SDK Preliminary support for iOS 7.1 and Android 4.4 (KitKat) Preliminary support for Tizen 2.2 ListView (phase 2) custom list/section headers and footers custom row selection dynamic item loading search support NYC Titanium Users Group 3
- 4. Titanium News continued Titanium SDK (continued) Android animation improvements (better performance, closer to iOS) re-write of build process with many bug 鍖xes and improvements xxhdpi support (480 dpi) windows are heavyweight (by default) supports creating broadcast intents Push: MQTT is deprecated, now using Google Cloud Messaging iOS build to device (!!) attributed strings dynamic animations (physics engine) iOS 7 animated transitions background services iOS 5 is deprecated Map is now a separate module with added capabilities (e.g. 3D) Titanium Studio 3.2 Improved platform installation and con鍖guration wizard Overhaul of UI and switch to Eclipse 4.3 base NYC Titanium Users Group 4
- 5. Titanium News continued In other Titanium related news. There was some buzz around using the Genymotion Android emulator - which is extremely fast. Supported by Titanium CLI and Studio in 3.2 release. ChariTi was pro鍖led in Appcelerators Developer Blog NYC Titanium Users Group 5
- 6. Meetup Tidbits Meetup Tidbits The next meetup will be on January14th (pending location availability). Danny Hanold will present a case study on the technical development of MisterApp using Titanium, marketing challenges, in-app payments, ad networks, app store optimization and using Drupal for back-end services. NYC Titanium Users Group 6
- 7. Behavior Driven Development for Titanium In this presentation, Andrew McElroy will present the advantages of using Behavior Driven Development (BDD) for creating automated tests to improve the development of Titanium and Alloy applications. He will further discuss his TiCucumber library which enables the seamless use of Cucumber with Alloy. Andrew is a Titanium Certified Expert (TCE), Certified Instructor (TCI) and is the cofounder of CodexLabs LLC. He has been writing software (either as a hobby or professionally) for over 20 years and is best known for bringing back TryRuby.org. ! He has industry experience as a full stack software engineer -- working on everything from configuring and custom compiling a Linux kernel, to developing a Rails site, to administrating various databases, to automating cloud or datacenter infrastructure with Puppet and/or Capistrano, to Building Mobile apps either in Objective C (iOS) or with Appcelerator's Titanium. NYC Titanium Users Group 7
- 8. Contact Info NYC Titanium Users Group John Oliva Organizer for NYC Titanium Users Group Certi鍖ed Titanium Developer Titanium Titan e-mail: cell: twitter: linkedin: website: NYC Titanium Users Group joliva63@gmail.com (908) 812-3667 @joliva http://bit.ly/joliva63 http://olivalabs.com 8