alloy

CLI Toolbelt for Titanium Mobile development on Mac OS X.

Prerequisite

Mac OS X 10.7
Titanium Studio 2.0
Ruby 1.9.3
CoffeeScript

Usage

Setup

$ cd /path/to/titanium-workspace/HelloWorld
$ alloy init
      create  alloy.json

Compiling CoffeeScript into JavaScript

You should place *.coffee files under the directory named app.

$ mkdir app
$ echo "Ti.API.console 'Hello'" > app/hello.coffee

Then, run coffee task.

$ alloy coffee
Compiling CoffeeScript
Successfully compiled CoffeeScript

JavaScript files generated under the Resources directory.

$ cat Resources/hello.js
// Generated by CoffeeScript 1.3.1

Ti.API.console('Hello');

Cleaning up build directory

Run clean task to clean up intermediate files (build/iphone/* or build/android/*).

$ alloy clean iphone
$ alloy clean android

Building app and run in iPhone simulator

$ alloy build iphone

Building app and run in Android emulator

Before using alloy, you need to create and setup a AVD (Android Virtual Devices) for rapid development process.

AVD setup

Launch Android SDK Manager and install SDK Platform and Google APIs of Android 2.2 (API 8)
```
$ ANDROID_SDK_HOME/tools/android &
```

Check what Android target availables

$ ANDROID_SDK_HOME/tools/android list targets
Available Android targets:
----------
id: 1 or "android-15"
     Name: Android 4.0.3
     Type: Platform
     API level: 15
     Revision: 3
     Skins: HVGA, QVGA, WQVGA400, WQVGA432, WSVGA, WVGA800 (default), WVGA854, WXGA720, WXGA800
     ABIs : armeabi-v7a, x86
----------
id: 2 or "Google Inc.:Google APIs:15"
     Name: Google APIs
     Type: Add-On
     Vendor: Google Inc.
     Revision: 2
     Description: Android + Google APIs
     Based on Android 4.0.3 (API level 15)
     Libraries:
      * com.google.android.media.effects (effects.jar)
          Collection of video effects
      * com.android.future.usb.accessory (usb.jar)
          API for USB Accessories
      * com.google.android.maps (maps.jar)
          API for Google Maps
     Skins: WVGA854, WQVGA400, WSVGA, WXGA720, HVGA, WQVGA432, WVGA800 (default), QVGA, WXGA800
     ABIs : armeabi-v7a

Create a new AVD

$ ANDROID_SDK_HOME/tools/android create avd \
  -n my_android-4.0.3 \
  -t 1 \
  --abi armeabi-v7a \
  --skin WVGA800

my_android-4.0.3 is AVD name, 1 is ID of Android target.

AVD created under ~/.android/avd.

$ ls -la ~/.android/avd
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  4 juno  staff  136  6  1 00:56 .
drwxr-xr-x  6 juno  staff  204  6  1 00:51 ..
drwxr-xr-x  4 juno  staff  136  6  1 00:56 my_android-4.0.3.avd
-rw-r--r--  1 juno  staff   69  6  1 00:56 my_android-4.0.3.ini

$ ANDROID_SDK_HOME/tools/android list avd
Available Android Virtual Devices:
    Name: my_android-4.0.3
    Path: /Users/juno/.android/avd/my_android-4.0.3.avd
  Target: Android 4.0.3 (API level 15)
     ABI: armeabi-v7a
    Skin: WVGA800

Yay!

Enable SD Card support to install application

$ echo "sdcard.size=256M" >> ~/.android/avd/my_android-4.0.3.avd/config.ini

Running Android emulator

Start adb server

$ ANDROID_SDK_HOME/platform-tools/adb start-server

Launch Android emulator

$ ANDROID_SDK_HOME/tools/emulator -avd my_android-4.0.3

After Android launch, emulator instance appears as a device.

$ ANDROID_SDK_HOME/platform-tools/adb devices
List of devices attached
emulator-5554   device

Build and install application to emulator

$ alloy build android

Shutting down Android emulator

Exit Android emulator app

Kill adb server

$ ANDROID_SDK_HOME/platform-tools/adb kill-server

Contributing

Fork it
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Create new Pull Request