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I’ve been playing around with Appcelerator Titanium lately and wrote a tutorial for the Dutch edition of Web Designer Magazine on how you can use the framework to build native apps for iOS and Android.

The code I used throughout the tutorial is based on what I used to create the Pakfriet app, an app for iPhone that lets you locate places that sell typical Belgian fries.

If you’re interested in getting started with Titanium, check out the tutorial in Web Designer Magazine issue 49.

Happy reading!

Great things come from small countries and besides an overdose of tasty beers, waffles and Brussels sprouts, we’re still quite proud of our fries here in Belgium. A frituur or frietkot as we call it here, is a place where you go to grab a freshly baked portion of fries.

You don’t find those friet-places like we have them here in Belgium in other countries, definitely not as often as you can find them here.

For anyone fond of good Belgian fries (that’s right, we don’...

Readers of this blog probably know about the free iPhone app that I’ve released just before summer called the I’m Fine App (thanks to @pascalculator for the birdie logo).

The application lets your friends and family know (through email or Facebook) that you’re doing fine or that you need help. This can be handy in several situations from going to a festival to going on a dangerous hike in the mountains.

The idea for the app emerged after a heavy storm hit Pukkelpop - a large Belgian festival - and we were...

I’ve started a 24-hour experiment in which I wan’t to see wether it’s possible or not to get an app in the app store. The app itself is called ImFineApp and it enables anyone to let friends and family know that they’re doing fine or that they need help. This can be useful in a number of cases, e.g. when going on an adventurous long vacation, visiting a large festival, when a natural disaster happens, ... and so on.

I used Titanium to build the app and while that was going well, there...

I’ve been playing around with Appcelerator Titanium lately and one thing that I found frustrating was the fact that I couldn’t get a GPS fix with the Android emulator. The iPhone emulator on the other hand was returning my current position just fine. Of course, dummy data is being returned by the emulator.

To make sure that the Android emulator returns a valid GPS location by using Geolocation in Titanium, you need to do the following:

1 - launch the Dalvik Debug Monitor a.k.a. ddms

The location of this tool...