This document summarizes the new features of Appcelerator Titanium Mobile 1.5, including enhancements for Android and iOS, new styling options with JavaScript Style Sheets, improved localization support, better handling of screen densities and orientations, improved native component integration for Android, and performance improvements for table views. It also announces additional upcoming training on native Android features and cross-platform development best practices.

1. What’s New In Mobile 1.5 Kevin Whinnery (@kevinwhinnery) Conrad Fuhrman (thenativeadvantage.com) http://www.appcelerator.com | @appcelerator

2. Agenda What’s new with Appcelerator What’s new in Titanium Mobile 1.5 Questions and Answers http://www.appcelerator.com | @appcelerator

3. What’s New With Us? 9m round of funding Hiring like crazy! (jobs.appcelerator.com) Major updates for Titanium Developer, Mobile, and Desktop Guides project Appcelerator and Verizon team up http://www.appcelerator.com | @appcelerator

4. Product Updates Android enhancements Performance improvements Support for multiple screen sizes and densities Extensibility http://www.appcelerator.com | @appcelerator Android FTW!

5. JavaScript Style Sheets JSS Support for: Styling by ID Styling Titanium Components import JSS files Available on Android: className/s addClass() global.jss http://www.appcelerator.com | @appcelerator

6. JSS Notes font:{} properties available as font-* JSS files are tied to included/window JS files No support for JavaScript in JSS files Values map to their equivalents in JS, i.e. height:50 and font-family:’Droid Sans’ First iteration of JSS: API/structure changes and enhancements likely http://www.appcelerator.com | @appcelerator

7. Localization Android-Style localization files (strings.xml) Top level i18n directory http://www.appcelerator.com | @appcelerator

8. Localization: Usage Ti.Locale.getString() === L() Value replacement with String.format String.format follows IEEE printf spec http://www.appcelerator.com | @appcelerator

9. Multiple Density Images http://www.appcelerator.com | @appcelerator by default, UIs are scaled to a 320x480 resolution

10. tiapp.xml configuration Android Configuration Custom AndroidManifest.xml properties anyDensity iOS Config Orientation control http://www.appcelerator.com | @appcelerator

11. Android Menus Associated with Activities Granular control Created on demand Note: Breaking Change http://www.appcelerator.com | @appcelerator

12. Android Module SDK Develop Custom Android extensions Eclipse-based development Assumes prior knowledge of Android SDK (We have a guide available for iOS as well) Dev Center: /guides/en/module_android.html http://www.appcelerator.com | @appcelerator

13. Native Android Concepts Activities Intents Services Pending Intent Menu and Menu Items Access to generated R.java file Stop by tomorrow for more http://www.appcelerator.com | @appcelerator

14. Native Android Pickers Date Time Custom Spinners Lots of new KS Demos http://www.appcelerator.com | @appcelerator

15. Device Calendar (Android) Create reminders Create alerts http://www.appcelerator.com | @appcelerator

16. Compiler Plugins Run custom Python scripts during build Applications: JavaScript compression Auto script loading/combination Custom build tooling http://www.appcelerator.com | @appcelerator

17. TableView Performance Enhanced TableView performance Remember ‘className’ on TVRows http://www.appcelerator.com | @appcelerator

18. More Release Notes Developer Blog http://bit.ly/ti_notes_15 Lighthouse Issues http://bit.ly/ti_lh_15 http://www.appcelerator.com | @appcelerator Thanks iOS/Android engineering teams (long suffering Don Thorp pictured above) for a great release!

19. Stop By Tomorrow... More on native Android features Cross-platform development techniques Code structure for Titanium Mobile applications Building component-oriented, event-driven applications with Titanium http://www.appcelerator.com | @appcelerator

20. Questions? http://www.appcelerator.com | @appcelerator