Fixes to Common Errors in Setting up Titanium Appcelerator

I plan to dump all solutions that work for me here. I’m working on a 32-bit, Windows 7.

Setting up a Galaxy Tab Emulator:
1. Download the zip file from Samsung Mobile
2. Unzip in your android-sdk\addons
3. Back in Appecelerator, Run -> Run Configurations.
It should be created automatically. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Error locating JDK: set $JAVA_HOME or put javac and jarsigner on your $PATH

Right click on Computer -> Properties – > Advanced System Settings – > Environment Variables

For Path:

Add (Do not replace the current value) the path of your jdk’s bin folder. For me, it was “C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_03\bin”. Since it’s a variable, place a semicolon after the current and then paste the new path.  Mine looks like:

C:\oraclexe\app\oracle\product\10.2.0\server\bin;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;%SYSTEMROOT%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\DTS\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn\VSShell\Common7\IDE\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies\;C:\Program Files\Zend\ZendServer\bin;C:\Program Files\Zend\ZendServer\share\ZendFramework\bin;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_03\bin

Could not locate the Android SDK at a given path

Make sure you did the previous solution. Also check out this link for solutions that have worked on others using Linux and Mac.

Using Appcelerator: Building Menu++

Until recently, I didn’t know that I could code once, and run it on multiple mobile operating systems.. (well almost)

Enter Appcelerator. Appcelerator allows you to code (using JavaScript) once and deploy in all mobile platforms, with just minor tweaks for the UI — a huuuuuuge advantage than separately coding for iOS, Android, Symbian, etc.  Pretty cool, huh?

In one of my classes, we’re required to build a mobile app for a project using Appecelerator, and my team (Hi, Brygs and Stacy!)  will be building Menu++. Since it’s a pretty quick project due in about two weeks, it’s not going to be that complicated:  it’s a menu app for Android tablets. Users will come in a restaurant and browse a very, visually appealing interactive menu –and order from the tablet directly. We’re gonna be using the Appecelerator API for the control and view layers, and a PHP-based REST server for the model/back-end.

If you’re curious about Appcelerator, here’s a few links:

Zero to App, a series of videos to get you up and running!

Quick Start Guide, learn the fundamentals of the platform

Building Native Mobile Applications, a comprehensive video series to get you into the “rockstar mobile dev” status!