Use Android Studio to develop native Titanium Android Modules

You as a developer can build and edit your Android modules inside the Titanium Studio. For this you have to add some (JDT-) plugins to Studio. In last time this makes trouble.

First reason: the receipt is from March 2016 and works with Luna. Luna is released at Juni 2014, next version Mars is from Juni 2015. Project seems to be dead. Chinese would say: 金蟬脱殼 (Slough off the cicada's golden shell).

An alternative way is to use the alive Android Studio.

Objectiv of this receipt is to explaine how you can develope Titanium modules with Android Studio.

This tutorial is based on the instructions from drauggres via the Titanium Slack Community, thank you!!

If you have always a working module you can directly continue with Starting Android Studio

Create a new Project

Example:

ti create --type module --name test --platform android --id com.company.test --workspace-dir ./ 

Or simplified:

ti create -t module -n test -p android --id com.company.test -d ./

Note: The same goes for the Appc-CLI and appc new [args].

This command creates a folder test with it's subfolders.

Installing Android Studio

After downloading Android Studio you can install the dmg.

And install the required SDK:

Starting Android Studio

Add Project SDK

If you open an existing project and point to our test - folder, then there is nothing to show on the left side bar.

Ok, next we add the SDK to project settings by calling this dialog:

Menu: File/Projectstructure

Add Android Build Files

First you have to create some folders:

cd <module_path>
mkdir platform/android
mkdir platform/android/res

For accessing AndroidManifest you have to build an empty project:

ti build -p android -b

Now you can add the AndroidManifest.xml from folder build/intermediates/manifests/aapt/AndroidManifest.xml

After this preparations you can add the facets to project:

• Manifest: <module_path>/android/build/intermediates/manifests/aapt/AndroidManifest.xml
• Resources: <module_path>/android/platform/android/res
• Assets: <module_path>/android/assets
• Native libs: <module_path>/android/libs

Important: Also uncheck Generate sources automatically

Add Titanium libraries

Add Titanium libraries (titanium.jar, kroll-common.jar, kroll-apt.jar) (edited)

In the end you will see:

And now you can edit the module:

Configuring Source root

Mark src directory (right click -> Mark Directory As) as Sources Root.

Notes

See the test/ directory for details!

Potential pitfalls

Unregistered VCS root detected
The directory /Users/fuerst/Desktop/AndroidStudioTitanium is under Git, but is not registered in the Settings.

In this case you have to enable git.

Can't start Git: /usr/local/bin/git
The path to Git executable is probably not valid. 

In this case you can find with whereis git and then you have to edit the path to i.e. /usr/bin/git.

Next steps/links

If you only want create apps with javascript you have to sources howto work with ATOM:

Tutorial from Miga

All what you need to create native apps with a lot of details.

How to install Axway Appcelerator in combination with Atom

dl;dr:

• Install of ATOM
• apm install appcelerator-titanium

https://github.com/drauggres/ti.gradle.fake