Pascal Achard botmaster

Advanced SCSS

Or, 16 cool things you may not have known your stylesheets could do. I'd rather have kept it to a nice round number like 10, but they just kept coming. Sorry.

I've been using SCSS/SASS for most of my styling work since 2009, and I'm a huge fan of Compass (by the great @chriseppstein). It really helped many of us through the darkest cross-browser crap. Even though browsers are increasingly playing nice with CSS, another problem has become very topical: managing the complexity in stylesheets as our in-browser apps get larger and larger. SCSS is an indispensable tool for dealing with this.

This isn't an introduction to the language by a long shot; many things probably won't make sense unless you have some SCSS under your belt already. That said, if you're not yet comfy with the basics, check out the aweso

To make sure your lay-outs look pretty much the same on all devices, including the thousands of different Android resolutions and densities, it's always best to use the 'dp' unit. However, typing '10dp' instead of 10 is quite a pain. A pain you can easily take away by changing the default unit in your tiapp.xml.

I like easy drop-in CommonJS libraries that need minimal configuration to perform common tasks.

This CommonJS library checks with Apple every X days to see if there's a new version available. If so, it asks the user if he/she would like to update and then opens the app in the App Store.

At minimum, the library requires no configuration at all and just a single line of code.

Look at advanced.js for all available options and methods.

Also check out my rating library:

I guess just like me you like to do alert('My message'); instead of:

Ti.UI.createAlertDialog({
        message: 'My message'
}).show();

But I'd even more like to do alert('My message', 'My title', myCallback); instead of:

See: http://fokkezb.nl/2013/05/23/app-store-locality

	{
	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
	// JSHint Configuration, Strict Edition
	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
	//
	// This is a options template for [JSHint][1], using [JSHint example][2]
	// and [Ory Band's example][3] as basis and setting config values to
	// be most strict:
	//
	// * set all enforcing options to true

	var v = Ti.UI.createView();

	var s = new require('spinner').Spinner(
	v, // View to spin
	30 // Degrees to spin per millisecond
	); // Auto-starts

	// Stop
	s.stop();

	'Label[platform=android]': {
	color: '#000' // all platforms except Android default to black
	}

	'Window': {
	backgroundColor: '#fff' // white background instead of default transparent
	}

	'Window[platform=android]': {
	modal: false // make android windows all heavyweight

	/* /Resources/app.js - Generated by Alloy, here to understand the flow */

	var Alloy = require("alloy"), _ = Alloy._, Backbone = Alloy.Backbone;

	Alloy.createController("index");