Slides from my skillshare class on Titanium Appcelerator. These slides wont mean much unless you are attending the class since we mostly use code examples which are not included in the deck Sample Code Snippet can be found here: https://gist.github.com/2927239 For More Information on the class: http://bit.ly/v3WqB6

1. Native In No Time: Titanium
Appcelerator
Session Two : HttpClient & REST APIs

2. Introduction
• Clearly Innovative Inc
• Aaron K. Saunders
• Titanium Appcelerator

3. Appcelerator
• FREE – FREE – FREE
• Cross-Platform with native controls
• Extensible Module SDK
• Appcelerator Cloud Services

4. Appcelerator Website – Helpful
Content
• HttpClient
• JSON.parse
• JSON.stringify
• XML.parse

5. Today You Get Data!!
• REST
• HTTPClient
• JSON
• XML

6. SOME CODE, More Details Later

7. WHAT THE REST?

8. APIs ARE EVERYWHERE
• Programmable Web
– http://www.programmableweb.com/
– List of vendors that provide APIs
– Most of these APIs support REST
• Apigee developer console
– https://apigee.com/providers
• Well Know Examples
– Facebook, Foursquare, Yelp

9. API Authentication
• The two you will see most often
– Basic authentication
• Username and password base64Encoded
– Oauth
• Crazy back and forth between webserver and client.
• Modules exists that do this for you, don’t try it yourself
– http://bytespider.github.com/jsOAuth/
– Good resource, I have used it a few times

10. REST API Basic Authenticaton Example

11. NEXT CLASS
• Email aaron@clearlyinnovative.com to let me
know if every other week or every three
weeks is better
• The next class will be on Appcelerator User
Interface construction

12. LINKS
• https://developer.foursquare.com/overview/s
amples
• http://www.yelp.com/developers/documentat
ion
• http://bytespider.github.com/jsOAuth/
• http://docs.appcelerator.com/titanium/2.0/in
dex.html#!/api/Titanium.Utils-method-
base64encode