Alloy tabs template

Click this image to view a video demo of this project:

1 minute, 13 seconds (Youtube)

This project features

• An Instagram style cross platform tabbar based on jasonkneen/com.jasonkneen.tabdemo
• Android Action bar buttons and back navigation
• Ti.Notifications above a ListView
• ListView collection binding
• Native swipe to refresh on iOS and Android (based on the iOS ListView example and the android iskugor/Ti.SwipeRefreshLayout widget)
• Infinite scrolling of the listview using FokkeZB/nl.fokkezb.infiniteScroll

It follows on from the pull to refresh concepts pioneered by:

• FokkeZB/nl.fokkezb.pullToRefresh
• jolicode/Alloy-PullToRefresh

Listview binding

As much as possible, the logic to bind the behaviours to the ListView have been encapsulated in the container.js module

The alloy controller looks like:

...
    $.container.bindList({
      pullToRefresh:    true,
      infiniteScroll:   true,
      refreshLabel:     "Chuck Norris quotes",
      list:             $.listCollection, 
      listView:         $.chucknorris_list_view,
      staleSeconds:     10 * 60
    });
...

Why use a custom Tab Group for android?

It's an Instagram-style attempt to make it easier to reach the main navigation

It was influenced by this tweet from @FokkeZB:

and the jasonkneen/com.jasonkneen.tabdemo module.

It does however break the Android tab-bar convention so depending on your position, perhaps it would be better to go native for that?

Pull to refresh API

The pull to refresh widget is calling a dummy JSON API as per: https://github.com/jkotchoff/sinatra_api_demo

It's hosted on heroku and the instance is automatically spun down when not in use so you may see a timeout error on your first request to get awesome Chuck Norris quotes

Wishlist

• Fix the Android infinite scrolling widget so that the ActivityIndicator is visible at the bottom of the list
• Make a widget from container.js so that the pull to refresh & infinite scroll etc. can be easily installed with gittio
• Badge counter for Android tabs
• Usage of the pull_to_refresh controller for the Android swipe refresh widget to display last update time
• SearchBar to send queries to the JSON API server

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

Shameless plug

This was open sourced out of

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