ACS Social Integration

Do you know, How to create ACS cloud user account using Facebook login?
Yes, we can do using ACS Social Integrations.

The external account login will create a ACS Services account if it hasn't been created, otherwise, it will login using the user who has the matching external account info.

STEP 1 - Facebook login in Titanium App 
Use below sample code for Facebook login

STEP 2 - Social Integration
After successfull login with Facebook, you will get Facebook accessToken, you can retrive this token using "Ti.Facebook.accessToken".

To integrate your facebook account with cloud, you need to pass three parameters to "Cloud.SocialIntegrations.externalAccountLogin" method,

id - External account's user id, optional for facebook. ACS server will obtain the uid using facebook token if id is missing
type - Type of the external account social media like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter(Currently only facebook token will be validated by the ACS server)
token - Token provided by the external account
add SocialIntegrations in Facebook login event listener

After the successful ACS Social Integrations go to
https://my.appcelerator.com/apps -> ypou-app -> Manage ACS -> Development -> Users
Here you will find a new cloud user account, which was created by external account login.

Other Methods
externalAccountLink - Associate an external account with an existing Appcelerator Cloud Services user account

externalAccountUnlink - Disassociate an external account from a Appcelerator Cloud Services user account.

searchFacebookFriends - Retrieves a list of Facebook Friends

References: 
http://docs.appcelerator.com/titanium/2.1/index.html#!/api/Titanium.Cloud.SocialIntegrations
https://cloud.appcelerator.com/docs/api/v1/social/loginexternal

Locking Android Orientation Mode

You can lock the orientation mode for Android in Titanium by successfully implementing the following steps :

By following the below steps you can lock the orientation mode throughout the app.

 1) Create a custom AndroidManifest.xml (copy this from original generated source
"build/android/AndroidManifest.xml")
2) Copy this on the created folder "platform/android/AndroidManifest.xml" at the top level of your project.(Inside your project root)

Locking Android Orientation Mode

3) Add this: android:screenOrientation="portrait" to all activities
4) Remove this: "|orientation" from all activities.

Here is my AndroidManifest.xml.


Here you can download the complete working project from my Github account Titanium-Android-Orientation

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Here you can download the complete working project from my Github account  Appcelerator Titanium Alloy Sample App

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YouTube Playlist in Titanium

In this post I am going to discuss about how to fetch YouTube playlist from a channel using Appcelerator Titanium.

YouTube offer API for category, search term, playlist, favorites, subscriptions... etc. Here you can found list of YouTube API
https://developers.google.com/youtube/getting_started

Below API will retrieve the user's playlists. This request does not require authentication
https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/userId/playlists?v=2

* Here  userId represents YouTube username.

The above API response containing a playlists feed in XML format.
The response contains a series of <entry>  tags, with each entry describing a playlist.
Each entry contains the playlist's title, description, author and modification date as well as
a  <content> tag that specifies the URL for retrieving the list of videos in the playlist

Here I am  using Apple's YouTube username to fetch their YouTube playlist

var channelName = "apple";
var loader = Titanium.Network.createHTTPClient();
loader.open("GET", "http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/"+channelName+"/playlists?v=2");

loader.onload = function() {
 var doc = this.responseXML.documentElement;
 var items = doc.getElementsByTagName("entry");
 for (var i = 0; i < items.length; i++) {
   var item = items.item(i);
   var playlist_title = item.getElementsByTagName("title").item(0).text;//playlist title
   var vid_count = item.getElementsByTagName("yt:countHint").item(0).text; //video count for this playlist
   var play_list_id = item.getElementsByTagName("yt:playlistId").item(0).text; //play_list_id
 }
};

loader.onerror = function(e) {
 alert("Error:"+e.error);
};

loader.timeout = 10000;
loader.send();

In below code I am going to retrieve all the videos in a particular playlist using playlist id.
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/playlist_id?v=2

var loader = Titanium.Network.createHTTPClient();
loader.open("GET", "http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/" + playlist_id + "?v=2");

loader.onload = function() {
  var doc = this.responseXML.documentElement;
  var items = doc.getElementsByTagName("entry");
  for (var c = 0; c < items.length; c++) {
   var item = items.item(c);
   var thumbnails = item.getElementsByTagName("media:thumbnail");
   if (thumbnails && thumbnails.length > 0) {
     var media = thumbnails.item(0).getAttribute("url"); //thumbnail image
     var title = item.getElementsByTagName("title").item(0).text; //video title
     var videoId = item.getElementsByTagName("yt:videoid").item(0).text; //video id
   }
  }
};

loader.onerror = function(e) {
 alert("Error:" + e.error);
};

loader.timeout = 5000;
loader.send(); 

Playlist listing for Apple

Video List for Particular Playlist

Here you can download the complete working project from my Github Titanium YouTube Playlist

CodeStrong