Napp UI

This module extends the native UI components provided by the Titanium Mobile SDK. We are more properties to a bunch of UI components, giving you more freedom for styling and functionality.

This is not a set of new UI components. Instead, we are extending the existing framework.

See this module as a collection of extended functionality. I did not invent all of the below functionality, but want to put these together in one united module.

Add the module to your project

Simply add the following lines to your tiapp.xml file:

<modules>
    <module platform="iphone">dk.napp.ui</module> 
</modules>

How to use

Instantiate the module through require(); This will modify and override the native Titanium classes with the NappUI methods.

Note: Creating a NappUI object is optional, but may be useful if methods, properties or custom proxy objects are defined.

var NappUI = require("dk.napp.ui");

The following lists the UI components and its new extended functionality.

Window

• Add a blur effect
  • 1.0: No blur effect
  • 0: Maximum blur effect

var win = Ti.UI.createWindow({
    blur:0.2
});

• Static Blur effect (a la' iOS 7)
  • enabled: true or flase
  • type
  • tint (applicable when using the tint type)

var win = Ti.UI.createWindow({
	staticBlur: {
		enabled: true,
		type: "tint",
		tint: "#00ff00"
	}
});

//See example/app.js for all applicable types

View

• Add drop shadow to your view
• Add a blur effect to the view

var view = Ti.UI.createView({
    shadow:{
        shadowRadius:10,
        shadowOpacity:1,
        shadowOffset:{x:2, y:2}
    },
    blur:0.75
});

• Static Blur effect (a la' iOS 7)
  • enabled: true or flase
  • type
  • tint (applicable when using the tint type)

var view = Ti.UI.createView({
	staticBlur: {
		enabled: true,
		type: "light"
	}
});

//See example/app.js for all applicable types

ImageView

• Add pan, rotate or/and pinch control to your image view
• Eventlisteners for each new gesture control

var image = Ti.UI.createImageView({
    image:"image.png",
    recognizeSimultaneously:"pinching,rotate",
    rotateGesture:true,
    pinchingGesture:true,
    panGesture:true
});

image.addEventListener('pan', function(e){});
image.addEventListener('panend', function(e){});

image.addEventListener('rotate', function(e){});
image.addEventListener('rotateend', function(e){});

image.addEventListener('pinching', function(e){});
image.addEventListener('pinchingend', function(e){});

image.addEventListener('pan', function(e){});
image.addEventListener('panend', function(e){});

WebView

• Custom WebView scroll speed (Same TableView / ScrollView scroll speed)
• Remove scroll bounce shadow
• Remove scroll delay
• Communication between WebView and Titanium app
• Change UserAgent
• Add custom headers

var webView = Ti.UI.createWebView({
    normalScrollSpeed: true,
    removeShadow: true,
    removeScrollDelay: true,
    userAgentForiOS: 'My Awesome Application UserAgent'
    url: 'http://www.appcelerator.com'
});
webView.addEventListener('fromWebView', function(){});
webView.setCustomHeaders({'my-customheader-1': 'custom-header-value', 'add-as-many-headers-as-you-need': 'value'});

ScrollableView

• Set the indicator color for the Paging Control
• Set the current indicator color for the Paging Control

var scrollableView = Ti.UI.createScrollableView({
 	views:[view1,view2,view3],
 	showPagingControl:true,
	pagingControlCurrentIndicatorColor:"blue",
	pagingControlIndicatorColor: "red"
});

TabGroup

• Custom active tab indicator image
• Custom active tab icon color
• Custom tab background image
• Custom tab background color (Same Ti.UI.TabGroup.tabsBackgroundColor property)

var tabGroup = Ti.UI.createTabGroup({
    customBackgroundColor: "#151515",
    customBackgroundImage: "/images/tabbg.png",
    customActiveIndicator: "/images/activeIndicator.png",
    customActiveIconColor: "#FF3300"
});

TextField

• Added hintTextColor

var textfield = Ti.UI.createTextField({
	hintTextColor:"red"
});

SearchBar

• SearchField BackgroundImage
• Custom Cancel button
  • barColor - background gradient of the button. (similar to navbar)
  • color - color of the button title
  • title - change the default Cancel text
  • font - set the font of the button
• Appearance of the keyboard
• Disable the search icon

var searchBar = Ti.UI.createSearchBar({
	searchFieldBackgroundImage:"searchbg.png",
	showsScopeBar:true,
	scopeButtonTitles:["hello", "yes"],
	customCancel:{
		barColor:"#333",
		color:"#ddd",
		title:"Hit me",
		font:{
			fontSize:16,
			fontWeight:"bold",
			fontFamily:"Georgia"
		}
	},
	appearance:Titanium.UI.KEYBOARD_APPEARANCE_ALERT,
	barColor:"transparent",
	disableSearchIcon:true //disables the search icon in the left side
});

Picker

• Mask the background to invisible.

var picker = Ti.UI.createPicker({
	mask:{
	  	left:14,
	  	top:10,
	  	width:293,
		height:196
  	}
});

Toolbar

• TintColor

var toolbar = Ti.UI.iOS.createToolbar({
    items:[send, flexSpace, camera],
    tintColor:"red"
});

NavigationWindow

• Close all windows in the navigationWindow, and return to the very first window in the group.

navWindow.popToRoot();

Changelog

• 1.2.3

  • Remove Attributed Text since its supported by Ti SDK.

• 1.2.2

  • min SDK changed to 3.2.0.GA
  • Removed NavGroup and added NavigationWindow

• 1.2.1

  • Added support for custom headers in webviews

• 1.2

  • Static Blurs (a la' iOS 7) for Ti.UI.Window and Ti.UI.Views - by @dezinezync

• 1.1.5

  • Attributed Text: Fix for Strings containing Emoji characters

• 1.1.4

  • Attributed Text: Fixed touch location bug causing application to crash
  • Attributed Text: Fixed highlight range bug
  • Attributed Text: ARC for memory management
  • Attributed Text: Lower memory consumption. Good to use in TiUITableViews *wink*

• 1.1.3

  • Attributed Text: Highlight links when selected
  • Attributed Text: LongPress event

• 1.1.2

  • Attributed Text: Set range instead of text when defining attributes. Range can be useful when you get a predefined range eg. Twitter API
  • Attributed Text Links: Set links on specific text/range and listen to a tap event.

• 1.1.1

  • Attributed Text: Bug Fixes
  • Attributed Text: Set base color for the text

• 1.1

  • Attributed Text for TiUILabel - by @dezinezync

• 1.0.4

  • Removed the need for requiring NappUI.js. Modifed the symbol preloader file to a module asset. See ticket 5.

• 1.0.3

  • Added popToRoot() to extend NavigationGroup. Feature request #3
  • Changed setBlurred(true) to setBlur(0.2). Feature request #1

• 1.0.2

  • Aded NappUI.js for better use of this module. This is due to some limitations of the Titanium Module SDK.

• 1.0.1

  • Bugfix - invalid build, and some functions did not work as expected.

• 1.0

  • Init commit, working module.

Author

Mads Møller
web: http://www.napp.dk
email: [email protected]
twitter: @nappdev

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