This talk was given at TiAppCamp2 on 11/2/2013 in Atlanta, GA about Titanium 3.2's CLI and tooling related changes.

1. Titanium 3.2 CLI
Chris Barber
Titanium Engineer Extraordinaire
TiAppCamp 2 / Nov 2, 2013

2. About Me
• Been with Appc 3 ½ years
• Stuff I've done
– Early versions of www site
– Dev center Q&A
– Titanium Mobile Web
platform
– Titanium CLI
– Titanium platform build
scripts
• JavaScript Guru

3. What's New in 3.2
Titanium 3.0.0,
3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3
Titanium 3.1.0,
3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.3
Titanium 3.2.0
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4. Titanium CLI

5. Titanium CLI
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Complete overhaul
Better selected SDK handling
New setup wizard
New prompting library
– http://npmjs.org/package/fields
• Command improvments
– info, module, plugin, sdk, setup
• More config settings
• Unit tests

6. Setup Command
• New menu design
• Improved quick setup
• New check environment

7. Info Command
• node-appc versions
• Mac OS X command line
tools
• Intel HAXM (Hardware
Accelerated Execution
Manager)
• Xcode support
• Improved iOS cert and
provisioning profile detection
• Android & iOS Devices &
Emulators/Simulators
• Environment Issues

8. Config Settings
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cli.ignoreDirs
cli.ignoreFiles
cli.progressBars (true)
cli.width (100)
paths.hooks
paths.modules
paths.plugins
paths.sdks
sdk.defaultInstallLocation
sdk.selected (formerly
app.sdk)

9. Android Build

10. Android Build
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Complete rewrite from Python to Node.js
Support for CLI plugins
Android 2.3.3 no longer required
Builds are about 13% faster
Nearly 100 bug fixes
Distribution builds much, much faster thanks
to UglifyJS
• Support for multiple emulators AND devices
• No longer creates AVDs, you manage your
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Fast x86 Android emulator
Built on top of VirtualBox
Beta support with Titanium
http://www.genymotion.com/
titanium config
genymotion.enabled true

12. iOS Build

13. iOS Build
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Builds are about 20% faster
Xcode 5.0.1 and iOS 7.0.3 support
64-bit iOS Simulator support
iOS Simulator profiles
Fixed several bugs
Improved validation
Improved symbol detection
Certificate and provisioning profile
selection

14. No More iTunes Sync
• Direct install to iOS device
• Insanely fast
• Supports install to multiple devices
simultaneously
• https://npmjs.org/package/node-ios-device

15. CLI Plugins

16. CLI Plugins
• Contains commands, event hooks, &
function hooks
• Global and per-project
• Global and Module hooks

17. Anatomy of a CLI Command
• /some/dir/mycommand.js
• ti config -a paths.commands /some/dir
• ti mycommand -baz wow

18. Anatomy of a CLI Hook
• /some/dir/myhook.js
• ti config -a paths.hooks /some/dir

19. Packaging a CLI Plugin
• Global plugins go in ~/Library/Application
Support/Titanium/plugins
– Can contain commands and hooks
– Automatically loaded for every Titanium
command

20. Packaging a CLI Plugin
• Project plugins go in <project dir>/plugins
• Can contain hooks only
– Loaded by "build" and "clean" commands
• Must be enabled in tiapp.xml

21. Available Plugin Hooks
Event Hooks
Function Hooks
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cli:command-not-found
cli:command-loaded
cli:pre-validate
cli:post-validate
cli:pre-execute
cli:post-execute
help:header
build.pre.construct
build.pre.compile
build.post.compile
build.finalize
build.config
build.android.config
build.android.copyResource
build.android.compileJsFile
build.android.dexerArgs
build.android.javacArgs
build.android.writeBuildManifest
build.android.startEmulator
build.ios.config
build.ios.writeBuildManifest
build.ios.copyResource
build.ios.compileJsFile
build.mobileweb.config
clean.config

22. How to get it:
npm install -g
git://github.com/appcelerator/titaniu
m.git
ti sdk install -b master -d
DISCLAIMER: This is not fully tested. This is not stable code. Use at your own risk.

23. Future Ideas

24. Build Profiles
• Controls build settings
– JavaScript minification
– JavaScript encryption
– Debugging
– etc
• Global or per-project
• Project-level defined in
tiapp.xml
– Can contain any tag

25. Build Profiles

26. Export Command
• Generate standalone Xcode (iOS) or
Eclipse (Android) projects
• No dependency on Titanium
• Replaces transport.py

27. Improved Logging
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Console-only today
File logging, especially for builds
Destination specific logging
Timestamps
Force specific locale

28. Titanium Daemon
• Server that runs in background
• Plugin architecture
• Device notifications
– Connected devices
• Environment caching
• Check for Titanium updates
• Web server plugin w/ interface
– Environment info (same as "ti info")
– Debug proxy
– Serve Titanium Mobile Web apps
• Run similar to "adb"
– Do not require root priviledges

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Questions?

30. Thank you!
cbarber@appcelerator.com
Twitter: @cb1kenobi