Over engineering trivial tasks using Axway API Builder and Amazon Alexa

Are you like me and tired of doing anything with your hands? I mean that’s so 2015. Since the advent of Amazon’s Alexa (echo) in 2015, I’ve not touched a light switch, turned on a TV, or set the temperature in my house with my dirty hands. So why not extend that to other trivial…

Appcelerator Mobile Backend Service Access Control Lists

Access Control Lists (ACL) Mobile Backend Services are awesome, but sometimes you need them to be limited to some users. Thats where Access Control Lists (ACL) come in. The ACL object implements access control lists for mobile backend service objects. An access control list controls read and write access to any mobile backend service objects…

Appcelerator extending UI elements

If you have every used <NavigationWindow&gt in your Alloy code you know that it will only work with iOS. But what if you don’t want to have to duplicate all your code for android? // index.xml <Alloy> <NavigationWindow id=”win1″ platform=”ios”> <Window class=”container”> <View> <Button onClick=”showDetails”>Show Details</Button> </View> </Window> </NavigationWindow> // Terrible we are duplicating code!!…