Titanium Turbo

The awesome framework for turbo charging your Titanium cross-platform native mobile app development!

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ℹ️ Disclaimer:
This project is not an official Axway product. It is managed by Brenton House using open-source modules, libraries, and tools. Try it out and let us know what you think!

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• 📓   Description
• 🚀   Getting Started
  • Simple Method
  • Manual Method
• ✨   Features
• 🎓 Learn More
  • 📚   Related projects
    • 🎟️   Modules for Titanium Mobile
    • 🎟️   Modules for Node.js and Titanium Mobile
    • 📦   Project Starter Kits
• 📣   Feedback
• Follow Brenton House
• ©️   Legal

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📓   Description

Titanium Turbo is a fork of Titanium Alloy that adds a lot of enhancements and customizations for rapid development.

Starting with Turbo v2, version number of Turbo will no longer be tied to versions of Titanium Alloy.

This version of Titanium Turbo is based on Titanium Alloy 1.15.1

🚀   Getting Started

Simple Method

Create new Titanium Turbo project

npx @geek/mobile app:create my-new-app

Build and run your app!

npm run ios

or...

npm run android

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Manual Method

Install Axway AMPLIFY Titanium and Alloy CLI

npm install -g titanium alloy

Create new Titanium project

ti create --type app --platforms all --name my-new-app

Add Titanium Alloy to project

cd my-new-app
alloy new

Create default package.json file

npm init -y

Install Titanium Turbo in root of project

npm install @titanium/turbo

Install Titanium Turbo Plugin in root of project

npm install @titanium/plugin-turbo

Build and run your app!

ti build --platform ios --log-level trace

or...

ti build --platform android --log-level trace

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✨   Features

See changelog.md for history of changes

• [x] Supports installing npm packages in root of project for use in mobile [TIMOB-26352] [Alloy PR]
• [x] Support for the following XML attributes in textField, label, and textArea: [ALOY-1547]
  • fontSize
  • fontFamily
  • fontStyle
  • fontWeight
  • textStyle
• [x] Replaced Underscore.js with Lodash 4.17.12 [ALOY-1168]
• [x] Updated babel.js to 7.x [ALOY-1629]
• [x] Enhanced support for babel config files: .babelrc, .babelrc.js and babel.config.js
• [x] Added support for camelCase, snake_case, and kabab-case in XML views. [ALOY-1647]
• [x] Added plugin property compileConfig.dir.resourcesAlloy
• [x] Updated moment to 2.24.0 [ALOY-1682]
• [x] Added backbone 1.4.0 [ALOY-1648]
• [x] Made default backbone version: 1.4.0
• [x] Added support for xml namespaced attributes per platform (e.g. ios:text or android:text) [ALOY-1646]
• [x] Added support for xml attributes with dotted notation (e.g. font.fontSize) [ALOY-1363]
• [x] Added support for using $.args in XML views. [ALOY-1316]
• [x] Added support for using $.* in XML views. -- Anything that starts with "$." in an Alloy XML View will be used literally and not treated as a string.
• [x] Added support for using turbo.* in XML views. -- Anything that starts with "turbo." in an Alloy XML View will be used literally and not treated as a string. [Required workaround for node_modules support to LiveView] [TIMOB-27206]
• [x] Added support for __init() function in controller that will be called before view is built. -- Allows $.* variables to be created and used in XML views.
• [x] Added support for visibility property in XML Views with possible values of: collapse, expand, and visible, hidden -- Allows collapsing of view in XML. [TIMOB-27307]
• [x] Added constants: Ti.UI.VISIBILITY_COLLAPSE, Ti.UI.VISIBILITY_EXPAND, Ti.UI.VISIBILITY_HIDDEN, and Ti.UI.VISIBILITY_VISIBLE
• [x] Added support for modelName XML attribute to be used with with dataCollection to assign variable name to current model [Defaults to __currentModel]
• [x] Added support for dataName XML attribute to be used with with dataCollection to assign variable name to model.__transform [Defaults to $model] -- Allows developer to reference current model properties like $model.myproperty
• [x] Added support for adding code to XML View attributes when surrounded by '~' [ALOY-1699]
• [x] Added support for script element in XML View. Add code by body or src attribute. [ALOY-1700] [Alloy PR]
• [x] Added value alias center for Ti.UI.TEXT_VERTICAL_ALIGNMENT_CENTER when used with verticalAlign XML attribute [ALOY-1703]
• [x] Added property alias text for Ti.UI.Button.title when used as XML attribute
• [x] Added property alias src for Ti.UI.ImageView.image when used as XML attribute
• [x] Added support for using underscore (instead of lodash) with this tiapp.xml property: <property name="use-underscore"type="bool">true</property>
• [x] Added support for installing widgets via npm (without naming restrictions) [ALOY-1704]
• [x] Added support for using WPATH() in xml view attributes: [ALOY-1253] [Alloy PR]
• [x] Added support for using ~/ as a shortcut for WPATH() in xml view attributes: [ALOY-1714] [Alloy PR]
• [x] Added support for using widget as primary control in xml view [ALOY-1256] [Alloy PR]
• [x] Added support for StackLayout control (with shortcut alias of stack and orientation property that defaults to vertical) in JavaScript and xml views
• [x] Added support for VerticalLayout control (with shortcut alias of vertical) in JavaScript and xml views
• [x] Added support for HorizontalLayout control (with shortcut alias of horizontal) in JavaScript and xml views
• [x] Added support for AbsoluteLayout control (with shortcut alias of absolute) in JavaScript and xml views
• [x] Added support for defining the primary entry point for the application (defaults to index). Currently search order: Alloy.main → Alloy.CFG.main → Titanium Property: app.main. [ALOY-1549]
• [x] Added support for <style> tag in XML views. Also supports the src attribute (like the <script> tag) which allows users to reference a widget-wide app.tss file! [ALOY-1729]
• [x] Partial workaround for Titanium and Alloy issue where relative path require statements are broken. This only fixes static paths. Fix for dynamic paths will be coming in upcoming release of Turbo. [TIMOB-28037]
• [x] Added support for static script blocks in Alloy <script static="true" /> [ALOY-1742]

🎓 Learn More

⭐   Axway Developer Blog
⭐   Axway Developer YouTube Channel
⭐   Axway Developer Portal
⭐   AMPLIFY Titanium GitHub Repo
⭐   Titanium Alloy GitHub Repo
⭐   Titanium Turbo GitHub Repo

📚   Related projects

⭐   Geek Mobile Toolkit - Toolkit for creating, building, and managing mobile app projects.
⭐   Titanium Mobile - Open-source tool for building powerful, cross-platform native apps with JavaScript.
⭐   Titanium Alloy - MVC framework built on top of Titanium Mobile.
⭐   Appcelerator - Installer for the Appcelerator Platform tool

🎟️   Modules for Titanium Mobile

project	description	npm
@titanium/applesignin	Native modules that allows you to use the iOS 13+ Apple Sign In API with Axway Titanium native mobile apps.
@titanium/authentication	Titanium native mobile authentication manager
@titanium/authentication-oauth	Titanium native mobile OAuth plugin for authentication manager
@titanium/calendar-picker	urbo widget that allows you to pick dates from a calendar with Axway Titanium.
@titanium/coremotion	Native modules that allows you to use iOS CoreMotion framework with Axway Titanium native mobile apps.
@titanium/essentials	The Essential Toolkit for Titanium Turbo Native Mobile Apps
@titanium/icloud	Native module that allows you to use the Apple iCloud framework with Axway Titanium native mobile apps.
@titanium/identity	Native modules to add Fingerprint/FaceId/keychain access to Titanium native mobile apps
@titanium/facebook	Native modules that allows you to use Facebook SDK with Axway Titanium native mobile apps.
@titanium/googlesignin	Native modules that allows you to use the Google Sign-in SDK with Axway Titanium native mobile apps.
@titanium/lottie	Native modules that allows you to use Airbnb Lottie animations with Axway Titanium native mobile apps.
@titanium/observer	Repackaging of nx-js/observer-util for Titanium Native Mobile
@titanium/please	Titanium native mobile library for politely requesting stuff from the internets
@titanium/polyfill	Titanium native mobile polyfills necessary to use packages that depend on Node.js modules
@titanium/turbo	🚀 Turbo is the awesome framework for turbo charging your Titanium cross-platform native mobile app development!
@titanium/updater	Titanium native mobile widget to check for app updates
@titanium/webdialog	Native modules that allows you to use native SFSafariViewController (iOS) and Chrome Pages (Android) with Axway Titanium native mobile apps.

🎟️   Modules for Node.js and Titanium Mobile

project	description	npm
@geek/cache	Caching module for Node.js and Axway Titanium
@geek/jsonc	JSONC and JSON utilities for JavaScript with Node.js and Axway Titanium.
@geek/jwt	JWT parser for JavaScript Node.js and Titanium native mobile
@geek/logger	Logging module for Node.js and Axway Titanium
@geek/mobile	Toolkit for creating, building, and managing mobile app projects.
@geek/retry	Retry JavaScript functions and promises in Node.js and Axway Titanium

📦   Project Starter Kits

project	description	npm
Titanium Turbo Template (Default)	Template for default Turbo app. Based on the basic Alloy Template + some extra goodies.
Titanium Turbo Template (Next)	Template for Titanium Turbo app (with extras). Based on the default Turbo Template + some extras.
Titanium Turbo Template (Fully Loaded)	Template for Titanium Turbo app with all the bells and whistles!

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