Fading ActionBar in Titanium

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Fading Actionbar

This is a quick example of how to create a fading actionbar effect like this in Appcelerator Titanium

How this works

This is actually very simple. The trick is putting the Actionbar in overlay mode by configuring the theme with windowActionBarOverlay:true. Then all you need to do is updating the color of the Actionbar, in this case by scrolling a ScrollView.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Manuel Lehner

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index.js

var abx = require('com.alcoapps.actionbarextras');

function onOpen(e) {
    // initial state: full transparency
    abx.setBackgroundColor('#00009688');
}

function onScroll(e){
	
	// Okay, let me explain what's going on here:
	var alpha = "";
	
	// I want to apply the fading effect to the first 500 pixels of scrolling
	// So, I'm only setting the alpha channel for 0 <= y < 500
	if (e.y < 500 && e.y >= 0){
		
		//calculate the opacity factor and convert it to hexadecimal
		alpha = (Math.round(e.y / 500 * 255).toString(16));
		
		// add leading zero if needed
		(alpha.length === 1) && (alpha = '0' + alpha);
	}
	
	// update actionbar color
	abx.setBackgroundColor('#'+ alpha +'009688');
	
}

$.index.open();

index.tss

".container": {
	title: "Fading Actionbar",
	theme: 'Theme.OverlayActionbar',
	backgroundColor:"white"
},
".verticalScroll":{
	scrollType: 'vertical',
	layout: 'vertical',
	top: 0,
	width: Ti.UI.FILL,
	height: Ti.UI.SIZE
},
".header":{
	width: Titanium.UI.FILL,
	height: 300,
	backgroundImage: '/images/night-clouds.jpg'
},
".title":{
	color: '#000',
	width: Titanium.UI.FILL,
	height: Titanium.UI.SIZE,
	top: 12,
	left: 8,
	font: {
		fontSize: '20dp',
		fontFamily: 'Roboto',
		fontWeight: 'bold'
	}
},
".text":{
	color: '#000',
	width: Titanium.UI.FILL,
	height: Titanium.UI.SIZE,
	top: 8,
	left: 8,
	right: 8,
	font: {
		fontSize: '16dp',
		fontFamily: 'Roboto'
	}
}

index.xml

<Alloy>
	<Window class="container" onOpen="onOpen">
		<ScrollView class="verticalScroll" onScroll="onScroll">
			<View class="header" />
			<Label class="title" text="Lorem Ipsum" />
			<Label class="text">
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			</Label>
		</ScrollView>
	</Window>
</Alloy>

theme.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<resources xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
	
	<style name="Theme.OverlayActionbar" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
		<item name="android:windowActionBarOverlay">true</item>
	     <!-- Support library compatibility -->
	    <item name="windowActionBarOverlay">true</item>
		<item name="colorPrimary">@color/primary</item>
		<item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/primaryDark</item>
	
	</style>
	
	<color name="primary">#009688</color>
	<color name="primaryDark">#00796B</color>

</resources>

Supercool! Thanks