We are announcing today Drupanium framework! I've been discussing with Luis Elizondo how to make drupanium a better open-source solution for the community. So, we are building drupanium from the scratch! Luis created drupanium before titanium 1.8 meaning that there wasn't commonJS api available in the titanium SDK. Because Luis is very busy right now with his own projects I'm developing the architecure and API for the Drupanium framework. This means now instead you won't need to copy, paste, change code, (stuff like that) from the current drupanium_app for your projects.

Last time I talked about Activity Indicators, but I didn't cover really how to use them, just how to create them. If you haven't read the first part of this post, go ahead and do it and then come back here.

Let me give you more insight of what we're gonna do. I usually create a file to handle all the connections to the server. I call it "client.js" and this allows me to reuse the code over and over again. In this next example we'll just load a user from our Drupal site.

Imagine you have a textarea but you can only accept 140 characters like Twitter does. You should provide a counter and disable any send buttons if the user exceeds the allowed characters.

Enought introduction, let me show you the code.

First, create the textarea and a label to hold the counter.

Sometimes you just want to tell the user to wait a few seconds until the operation finishes. But how to create some nice screen blocking progress bar? If you've been using Titanium Studio you know that the default activity indicators, is not as good as it could be. We need something like Twitter does. A blank screen with a message of what we're doing and why the user needs to wait.

The first thing we're gonna do is create a file with our code, we'll be calling the function inside this file every time we need an activity indicator.