Titanium.UI.View

Will disable the "double tap and hold for long press" message when selecting an item.

On iOS this is a direct analog of the accessibilityElementsHidden property defined in the UIAccessibility Protocol.

On Android, setting accessibilityHidden calls the native View.setImportantForAccessibility method. The native method is only available in Android 4.1 (API level 16/Jelly Bean) and later; if this property is specified on earlier versions of Android, it is ignored.

On iOS this is a direct analog of the accessibilityHint property defined in the UIAccessibility Protocol. On Android, it is concatenated together with Titanium.UI.View.accessibilityLabel and Titanium.UI.View.accessibilityValue in the order: accessibilityLabel, accessibilityValue, accessibilityHint. The concatenated value is then passed as the argument to the native View.setContentDescription method.

On iOS this is a direct analog of the accessibilityLabel property defined in the UIAccessibility Protocol. On Android, it is concatenated together with Titanium.UI.View.accessibilityValue and Titanium.UI.View.accessibilityHint in the order: accessibilityLabel, accessibilityValue, accessibilityHint. The concatenated value is then passed as the argument to the native View.setContentDescription method. Defaults to Title or label of the control.

On iOS this is a direct analog of the accessibilityValue property defined in the UIAccessibility Protocol. On Android, it is concatenated together with Titanium.UI.View.accessibilityLabel and Titanium.UI.View.accessibilityHint in the order: accessibilityLabel, accessibilityValue, accessibilityHint. The concatenated value is then passed as the argument to the native View.setContentDescription method. Defaults to State or value of the control.

Used on iOS only. For Android, use Titanium.UI.Animation.anchorPoint.

Anchor point is specified as a fraction of the view's size. For example, {0, 0} is at the view's top-left corner, {0.5, 0.5} at its center and {1, 1} at its bottom-right corner.

See the "Using an anchorPoint" example in Titanium.UI.Animation for a demonstration. The default is center of this view.

For information about color values, see the "Colors" section of Titanium.UI. Defaults to Transparent.

For information about color values, see the "Colors" section of Titanium.UI. Defaults to the normal background color of this view.

If backgroundDisabledImage is undefined, and the normal background imagebackgroundImage is set, the normal image is used when this view is disabled.

For information about color values, see the "Colors" section of Titanium.UI.

For normal views, the focused color is only used if focusable is true. Defaults to the normal background color of this view.

For normal views, the focused background is only used if focusable is true. If backgroundFocusedImage is undefined, and the normal background image backgroundImage is set, the normal image is used when this view is focused.

A gradient can be defined as either linear or radial. A linear gradient varies continuously along a line between the startPoint and endPoint.

A radial gradient is interpolated between two circles, defined by startPoint and startRadius and endPoint and endRadius respectively.

The start points, end points and radius values can be defined in device units, in the view's coordinates, or as percentages of the view's size. Thus, if a view is 60 x 60, the center point of the view can be specified as:

{ x: 30, y: 30 }

Or:

{ x: '50%', y: '50%' }

When specifying multiple colors, you can specify an offset value for each color, defining how far into the gradient it takes effect. For example, the following color array specifies a gradient that goes from red to blue back to red:

colors: [ { color: 'red', offset: 0.0}, { color: 'blue', offset: 0.25 }, { color: 'red', offset: 1.0 } ]

Android's linear gradients ignores backfillStart and backfillEnd, treating them as if they are true. Android's radial gradients ignore the endPoint property. Defaults to no gradient.

Default behavior when backgroundImage is unspecified depends on the type of view and the platform. For generic views, no image is used. For most controls (buttons, textfields, and so on), platform-specific default images are used.

See the section on backgroundLeftCap and backgroundTopCap behavior on iOS in Titanium.UI.View.

Setting this to true makes the set backgroundImage repeat across the view as a series of tiles. The tiling begins in the upper-left corner, where the upper-left corner of the background image is rendered. The image is then tiled to fill the available space of the view.

Note that setting this to true may incur performance penalties for large views or background images, as the tiling must be redone whenever a view is resized.

On iOS, the following views do not currently support tiled backgrounds:

• Titanium.UI.Button
• Titanium.UI.TextField
• Titanium.UI.Label

For information about color values, see the "Colors" section of Titanium.UI.

focusable must be true for normal views.

Defaults to background color of this view.

For normal views, the selected background is only used if focusable is true.

If backgroundSelectedImage is undefined, and the normal background image backgroundImage is set the normal image is used when this view is selected.

See the section on backgroundLeftCap and backgroundTopCap behavior on iOS in Titanium.UI.View.

For information about color values, see the "Colors" section of Titanium.UI.

Defaults to the normal background color of this view (Android), black (iOS).

Each corner is rounded using an arc of a circle. Values for each corner can be specified. For example, '20px 20px' will set both left and right corners to 20px. Specifying '20px 20px 20px 20px' will set top-left, top-right, bottom-right and bottom-left corners in that order.

If you have issues with dark artifacts on Android you can try to disable Hardware acceleration by setting a backgroundColor with a small amount of transparency: backgroundColor:"rgba(255,255,255,254)".

If borderColor is set without borderWidth, this value will be changed to 1 of the unit declared as 'ti.ui.defaultunit' in tiapp.xml descriptor.

This position is relative to the view's parent. Exact interpretation depends on the parent view's layout property. Can be either a float value or a dimension string (for example, '50%' or '10px').

This is an input property for specifying where the view should be positioned, and does not represent the view's calculated position.

Defaults to undefined.

This is an input property for specifying where the view should be positioned, and does not represent the view's calculated position.

Defaults to undefined.

Setting this to Titanium.UI.iOS.CLIP_MODE_ENABLED enforces all child views to be clipped to this views bounds. Setting this to Titanium.UI.iOS.CLIP_MODE_DISABLED allows child views to be drawn outside the bounds of this view. When set to Titanium.UI.iOS.CLIP_MODE_DEFAULT or when this property is not set, clipping behavior is inferred. See section on iOS Clipping Behavior in Titanium.UI.View.

Defaults to undefined. Behaves as if set to Titanium.UI.iOS.CLIP_MODE_DEFAULT.

The elevation of a view determines the appearance of its shadow. Higher elevations produce larger and softer shadows.

Note: The elevation property only works on Titanium.UI.View objects. Many Android components have a default elevation that cannot be modified. For more information, see Google design guidelines: Elevation and shadows.

This is a security feature to protect an app from "tapjacking", where a malicious app can use a system overlay to intercept touch events in your app or to trick the end-user to tap on UI in your app intended for the overlay.

Setting this property to true causes touch related events (including "click") to not be fired if a system overlay overlaps the view.

Defaults to: If undefined, defaults to either Titanium.UI.FILL or Titanium.UI.SIZE depending on the view. See "View Types and Default Layout Behavior" in Transitioning to the New UI Layout System.

Can be either a float value or a dimension string (for example, '50%' or '40dp'). Can also be one of the following special values:

• Titanium.UI.SIZE. The view should size itself to fit its contents.
• Titanium.UI.FILL. The view should size itself to fill its parent.
• 'auto'. Represents the default sizing behavior for a given type of view. The use of 'auto' is deprecated, and should be replaced with the SIZE or FILL constants if it is necessary to set the view's behavior explicitly.

This is an input property for specifying the view's height dimension. To determine the view's size once rendered, use the rect or size properties.

If setting hiddenBehavior to Titanium.UI.HIDDEN_BEHAVIOR_GONE it will automatically release the space the view occupied. For example: in a vertical layout the views below the object will move up when you hide an object with hiddenBehavior:Titanium.UI.HIDDEN_BEHAVIOR_GONE.

• Titanium.UI.HIDDEN_BEHAVIOR_INVISIBLE. Keeps the space and just hides the object (default).
• Titanium.UI.HIDDEN_BEHAVIOR_GONE. Releases the space and hides the object.

Defaults to Titanium.UI.HIDDEN_BEHAVIOR_INVISIBLE.

Note that the parallax effect only happens by tilting the device so results can not be seen on Simulator. To clear all motion effects, use the <Titanium.UI.clearMotionEffects> method.

For more information, see the discussion of horizontal layout mode in the description of the layout property.

The id property of the Ti.UI.View represents the view's identifier. The identifier string does not have to be unique. You can use this property with Titanium.UI.View.getViewById method.

When true the screen will not power down. Note: enabling this feature will use more power, thereby adversely affecting run time when on battery. For iOS look at Titanium.App.idleTimerDisabled.

There are three layout options:

• composite (or absolute). Default layout. A child view is positioned based on its positioning properties or "pins" (top, bottom, left, right and center). If no positioning properties are specified, the child is centered.

  The child is always sized based on its width and height properties, if these are specified. If the child's height or width is not specified explicitly, it may be calculated implicitly from the positioning properties. For example, if both left and center.x are specified, they can be used to calculate the width of the child control.

  Because the size and position properties can conflict, there is a specific precedence order for the layout properties. For vertical positioning, the precedence order is: height, top, center.y, bottom.

  The following table summarizes the various combinations of properties that can be used for vertical positioning, in order from highest precedence to lowest. (For example, if height, center.y and bottom are all specified, the height and center.y values take precedence.)

  Scenario	Behavior
  height & top specified	Child positioned top unit from parent's top, using specified height; any center.y and bottom values are ignored.
  height & center.y specified	Child positioned with center at center.y, using specified height; any bottom value is ignored.
  height & bottom specified	Child positioned bottom units from parent's bottom, using specified height.
  top & center.y specified	Child positioned with top edge top units from parent's top and center at center.y. Height is determined implicitly; any bottom value is ignored.
  top & bottom specified	Child positioned with top edge top units from parent's top and bottom edge bottom units from parent's bottom. Height is determined implicitly.
  Only top specified	Child positioned top units from parent's top, and uses the default height calculation for the view type.
  center.y and bottom specified	Child positioned with center at center.y and bottom edge bottom units from parent's bottom. Height is determined implicitly.
  Only center.y specified	Child positioned with center at center.y, and uses the default height calculation for the view type.
  Only bottom specified	Child positioned with bottom edge bottom units from parent's bottom, and uses the default height calculation for the view type.
  height, top, center.y, and bottom unspecified	Child entered vertically in the parent and uses the default height calculation for the child view type.

  Horizontal positioning works like vertical positioning, except that the precedence is width, left, center.x, right.

  For complete details on composite layout rules, see Transitioning to the New UI Layout System in the Titanium Mobile Guides.

• vertical. Children are laid out vertically from top to bottom. The first child is laid out top units from its parent's bounding box. Each subsequent child is laid out below the previous child. The space between children is equal to the upper child's bottom value plus the lower child's top value.

  Each child is positioned horizontally as in the composite layout mode.

• horizontal. Horizontal layouts have different behavior depending on whether wrapping is enabled. Wrapping is enabled by default (the horizontalWrap property is true).

  With wrapping behavior, the children are laid out horizontally from left to right, in rows. If a child requires more horizontal space than exists in the current row, it is wrapped to a new row. The height of each row is equal to the maximum height of the children in that row.

  Wrapping behavior is available on iOS and Android. When the horizontalWrap property is set to true, the first row is placed at the top of the parent view, and successive rows are placed below the first row. Each child is positioned vertically within its row somewhat like composite layout mode. In particular:

  • If neither top or bottom is specified, the child is centered in the row.
  • If either top or bottom is specified, the child is aligned to either the top or bottom of the row, with the specified amount of padding.
  • If both top and bottom is specified for a given child, the properties are both treated as padding.

  If the horizontalWrap property is false, the behavior is more equivalent to a vertical layout. Children are laid or horizontally from left to right in a single row. The left and right properties are used as padding between the children, and the top and bottom properties are used to position the children vertically.

  Defaults to Composite layout.

This position is relative to the view's parent. Exact interpretation depends on the parent view's layout property. Can be either a float value or a dimension string (for example, '50%' or '10px').

This is an input property for specifying where the view should be positioned, and does not represent the view's calculated position.

Defaults to undefined.

If this property is set to false, the animate call is ignored if the view is currently being animated.

Defaults to undefined but behaves as false

Preview context to present the "Peek and Pop" of a view. Use an configured instance of Titanium.UI.iOS.PreviewContext here.

Note: This property can only be used on devices running iOS9 or later and supporting 3D-Touch. It is ignored on older devices and can manually be checked using Titanium.UI.iOS.forceTouchSupported.

The view's bounding box is defined by its size and position.

The view's size is rect.width x rect.height. The view's top-left position relative to its parent is (rect.x , rect.y).

On Android it will also return rect.absoluteX and 'rect.absoluteY' which are relative to the main window.

The correct values will only be available when layout is complete. To determine when layout is complete, add a listener for the postlayout event.

This position is relative to the view's parent. Exact interpretation depends on the parent view's layout property. Can be either a float value or a dimension string (for example, '50%' or '10px').

This is an input property for specifying where the view should be positioned, and does not represent the view's calculated position.

Defaults to undefined.

Translation values are applied to the static post layout value.

Translation values are applied to the static post layout value.

Translation values are applied to the static post layout value.

Translation values are applied to the static post layout value.

Translation values are applied to the static post layout value.

Although property returns a Dimension dictionary, only the width and height properties are valid. The position properties--x and y--are always 0.

To find the position and size of the view, use the rect property instead.

The correct values will only be available when layout is complete. To determine when layout is complete, add a listener for the postlayout event.

This property is a direct correspondant of the tintColor property of UIView on iOS. If no value is specified, the tintColor of the View is inherited from its superview.

Assigning a value to this property causes the tool tip to be displayed for the view. Setting the property to null cancels the display of the tool tip for the view. Note: This property is only used for apps targeting macOS Catalyst.

This position is relative to the view's parent. Exact interpretation depends on the parent view's layout property. Can be either a float value or a dimension string (for example, '50%' or '10px').

This is an input property for specifying where the view should be positioned, and does not represent the view's calculated position.

If false, will forward the events to peers.

Touch feedback is only applied to a view's background. It is never applied to the view's foreground content such as a Titanium.UI.ImageView's image.

For Titanium versions older than 9.1.0, touch feedback only works if you set the Titanium.UI.View.backgroundColor property to a non-transparent color.

Defaults to provided theme color.

Android only supports Matrix2D transforms.

Name should be unique in the View hierarchy.

Translation values are applied to the static post layout value.

Translation values are applied to the static post layout value.

Translation values are applied to the static post layout value.

Note that the parallax effect only happens by tilting the device so results can not be seen on Simulator. To clear all motion effects, use the <Titanium.UI.clearMotionEffects> method.

iOS Defaults to undefined. Behaves as if transparent. Android default is black. On Android you can set <item name="android:ambientShadowAlpha">0.5</item> and <item name="android:spotShadowAlpha">0.5</item> in your theme to change the opacity.

Defaults to undefined. Behaves as if set to (0,-3)

Defaults to undefined. Behaves as if set to 3. Accepts density units as of 10.0.1.

Defaults to: If undefined, defaults to either Titanium.UI.FILL or Titanium.UI.SIZE depending on the view. See "View Types and Default Layout Behavior" in Transitioning to the New UI Layout System.

Can be either a float value or a dimension string (for example, '50%' or '40dp'). Can also be one of the following special values:

• Titanium.UI.SIZE. The view should size itself to fit its contents.
• Titanium.UI.FILL. The view should size itself to fill its parent.
• 'auto'. Represents the default sizing behavior for a given type of view. The use of 'auto' is deprecated, and should be replaced with the SIZE or FILL constants if it is necessary to set the view's behavior explicitly.

This is an input property for specifying the view's width dimension. To determine the view's size once rendered, use the rect or size properties.

A view does not have a default z-index value, meaning that it is undefined by default. When this property is explicitly set, regardless of its value, it causes the view to be positioned in front of any sibling that has an undefined z-index.

Defaults to undefined.

The child view is added as the last child in this view's hierarchy.

Although all views inherit from Titanium.UI.View, not all views are capable of containing other views. In particular:

• Some views are not designed to be containers at all.
• Some views are special-purpose containers that can only contain certain other views.
• Some views are top-level containers that cannot (or should not) be added to other views.

Non-Container Views

The following views are not intended to act as containers that can hold other views:

• ActivityIndicator
• Button
• ImageView
• Label
• ProgressBar
• SearchBar
• Slider
• Switch
• TableView
• TextArea
• TextField
• WebView

Adding children to the these views may be supported on some platforms, but is not guaranteed to work across platforms. Where it is supported, it may not work as expected.

For maximum portability, these views should be treated as if they do not support children. Instead of adding children to these views, applications can positon other views as siblings. For example, instead of adding a button as a child of a WebView, you can add the button to the web view's parent such that it appears on top of the web view.

Special-Purpose Containers

A few view objects act as special-purpose containers--that is, they only manage certain types of children, and many of them support a special means of adding these children, instead of the general add method. These containers include:

• ButtonBar and TabbedBar are designed to hold their own internally-created buttons, assigned by adding strings to the "labels" array. Views added using the add method are displayed on top of these buttons.

• Picker. Can only hold PickerRows and PickerColumns, which are added using the add method. Adding other types of views to a Picker is not supported.

• TableView is a specialized container for TableViewSection and TableViewRow objects. These objects must be added using the properties and methods that TableView provides for adding and removing sectons and rows.

  On some platforms, it is possible to add arbitrary child views to a table view using the add method. However, this is not guaranteed to work on all platforms, and in general, should be avoided.

• TableViewSection is a specialized container for TableViewRow objects, which are added using the add method. The add method on TableViewSection can only be used to add TableViewRow objects.

• Toolbar is designed to hold buttons and certain other controls, added to its items array. Views added using the add method are displayed on top of the controls in the items array.

• The Tab, TabGroup, NavigationWindow and SplitWindow objects are special containers that manage windows. These are discussed in the "Top-Level Containers" section.

Top-Level Containers

There are certain top-level containers that are not intended to be added as the children of other views. These top-level containers include Titanium.UI.Window, Titanium.UI.iOS.SplitWindow, Titanium.UI.NavigationWindow, and Titanium.UI.TabGroup. Other types of views must be added to a top-level container in order to be displayed on screen.

The special containers Titanium.UI.NavigationWindow, Titanium.UI.iOS.SplitWindow, Titanium.UI.Tab, and Titanium.UI.TabGroup manage windows. These managed windows may be referred to as children of the container, but they are not added using the add method.

Tab is another kind of special container: it is not itself a top-level container, but can only be used within a TabGroup. You cannot add a Tab to an arbitrary container.

The Animation object or dictionary passed to this method defines the end state for the animation, the duration of the animation, and other properties.

Note that on SDKs older than 9.1.0 - if you use animate to move a view, the view's actual position is changed, but its layout properties, such as top, left, center and so on are not changed--these reflect the original values set by the user, not the actual position of the view.

As of SDK 9.1.0, the final values of the animation will be set on the view just before the complete event and/or the callback is fired.

The rect property can be used to determine the actual size and position of the view.

Use this method together with <Titanium.UI.horizontalMotionEffect> and <Titanium.UI.verticalMotionEffect>.

Returns null if either view is not in the view hierarchy.

Keep in mind that views may be removed from the view hierarchy if their window is blurred or if the view is offscreen (such as in some situations with Titanium.UI.ScrollableView).

If this view is a Titanium.UI.ScrollView, the view's x and y offsets are subtracted from the return value.

Useful if the layout property is set to horizontal or vertical.

Useful if the layout property is set to horizontal or vertical.

Stops a running view Animation.

The honorScaleFactor argument is only supported on iOS.

There is a subtle difference between singletap and click events.

A singletap event is generated when the user taps the screen briefly without moving their finger. This gesture will also generate a click event.

However, a click event can also be generated when the user touches, moves their finger, and then removes it from the screen.

On Android, a click event can also be generated by a trackball click.

This event only fires when using the trackball to navigate.

A keypressed event is generated by pressing a hardware key. On Android, this event can only be fired when the property focusable is set to true. On iOS the event is generated only when using Ti.UI.TextArea, Ti.UI.TextField and Ti.UI.SearchBar.

A long click is generated by touching and holding on the touchscreen or holding down the trackball button.

The event occurs before the finger/button is lifted.

A longpress and a longclick can occur together.

As the trackball can fire this event, it is not intended to return the x and y coordinates of the touch, even when it is generated by the touchscreen.

A longclick blocks a click, meaning that a click event will not fire when a longclick listener exists.

A long press is generated by touching and holding on the touchscreen. Unlike a longclick, it does not respond to the trackball button.

The event occurs before the finger is lifted.

A longpress and a longclick can occur together.

In contrast to a longclick, this event returns the x and y coordinates of the touch.

A pinch is a touch and expand or contract with two fingers. The event occurs continuously until a finger is lifted again.

This event is fired when the view and its ancestors have been laid out. The rect and size values should be usable when this event is fired.

This event is typically triggered by either changing layout properties or by changing the orientation of the device. Note that changing the layout of child views or ancestors can also trigger a relayout of this view.

Note that altering any properties that affect layout from the postlayout callback may result in an endless loop.

This event is fired when doing a two finger rotation and returning the angle. The event occurs continuously until a finger is lifted again.

A touchcancel can happen in circumstances such as an incoming call to allow the UI to clean up state.

On the Android platform, other gesture events, such as longpress or swipe, cancel touch events, so this event may not be triggered after a touchstart event.

Event coordinates are always relative to the view in which the initial touch occurred