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Titanium.UI.TextArea

viewAndroidiPhoneiPadmacOSsince 0.8

Extends Titanium.UI.ViewTitanium.Proxy

A multiline text field that supports editing and scrolling.

Android iOS
Android iOS

Use the Titanium.UI.createTextArea method or <TextArea> Alloy element to create a text area.

click event in iOS

In iOS 11+, click event in text area is not fired due to changes from apple. Use touchstart event instead of click event.

Examples

Basic Text Area with Customizations

This example creates a highly customized text area.

var win = Ti.UI.createWindow();
var textArea = Ti.UI.createTextArea({
  borderWidth: 2,
  borderColor: '#bbb',
  borderRadius: 5,
  color: '#888',
  font: {fontSize:20, fontWeight:'bold'},
  keyboardType: Ti.UI.KEYBOARD_NUMBER_PAD,
  returnKeyType: Ti.UI.RETURNKEY_GO,
  textAlign: 'left',
  value: 'I am a textarea',
  top: 60,
  width: 300, height : 70
});
win.add(textArea);
win.open();

Text Area with Custom Keyboard Toolbar (iOS)

On iOS, a configurable toolbar can be displayed above the virtual keyboard. Toolbars can be used with both text areas and text fields. See <Titanium.UI.iOS.Toolbar> for more information.

This code excerpt creates a text area with a toolbar:

Example using a custom keyboard toolbar:

var send = Ti.UI.createButton({
    style : Ti.UI.BUTTON_STYLE_OPTION_POSITIVE,
    title : 'Send'
});

var camera = Ti.UI.createButton({
    systemButton : Ti.UI.iOS.SystemButton.CAMERA
});

var cancel = Ti.UI.createButton({
    systemButton : Ti.UI.iOS.SystemButton.CANCEL
});

var flexSpace = Ti.UI.createButton({
    systemButton : Ti.UI.iOS.SystemButton.FLEXIBLE_SPACE
});

var textarea = Ti.UI.createTextArea({
    borderColor : '#000',
    color : '#000',
    keyboardToolbar : [cancel, flexSpace, camera, flexSpace, send],
    keyboardToolbarColor : '#999',
    keyboardToolbarHeight : 40,
    value : 'Focus to see keyboard with toolbar',
    top : 10,
    width : 300, height : 120
});

Alloy XML Markup

Previous basic text area with customizations example as an Alloy view.

<Alloy>
    <Window id="win">
        <TextArea id="textArea"
            borderWidth="2" borderColor="#bbb" borderRadius="5"
            color="#888" textAlign="left" value="I am a textarea"
            top="60" width="300" height="70" />
    </Window>
</Alloy>

Properties 110

apiName

Stringsince Android 3.2.0, iPhone 3.2.0, iPad 3.2.0, macOS 9.2.0read-only

Inherited from Titanium.Proxy

The name of the API that this proxy corresponds to.

attributedHintText

Titanium.UI.AttributedStringsince Android 3.6.0, iPhone 3.2.0, iPad 3.2.0

Hint text attributed string.

The attributed hint text by the text area. If set, avoid setting common attributes in text area, such as hintText, color and font, as unexpected behaviors may result.

This has no effect when used with hintType Ti.UI.HINT_TYPE_ANIMATED.

Prior to Release 3.6.0, assign this property an object from the <Titanium.UI.iOS.AttributedString> class.

Since Appcelerator CLI 4.1.0 (Alloy 1.7.0), for Alloy, you can use an <AttributedHintText> element inside a <TextField> element and set the text property as node text:

<Alloy>
  <Window>
      <TextField>
        <AttributedHintText>
            Alloy is great!
        </AttributedHintText>
      </TextField>
  </Window>
</Alloy>

Then set attributes in the TSS file:

"AttributedString" : {
  attributes: [
    {
      type: Ti.UI.ATTRIBUTE_FOREGROUND_COLOR,
      value: 'red',
      range: [0, 5]
    },
    {
      type: Ti.UI.ATTRIBUTE_UNDERLINES_STYLE,
      value: Ti.UI.ATTRIBUTE_UNDERLINE_STYLE_SINGLE,
      range: [9, 5]
    }
  ]
}

attributedString

Titanium.UI.AttributedStringsince Android 3.6.0, iPhone 3.2.0, iPad 3.2.0

TextArea attributed string.

The underlying attributed string drawn by the textArea. If set, avoid setting common attributes in textArea, such as value, color and font, as unexpected behaviors may result.

Prior to Release 3.6.0, assign this property an object from the <Titanium.UI.iOS.AttributedString> class.

Since Appcelerator CLI 4.1.0 (Alloy 1.7.0), for Alloy, you can use an <AttributedString> element inside a <TextArea> element and set the text property as node text:

<Alloy>
  <Window>
      <TextArea>
        <AttributedString>
            Alloy is great!
        </AttributedString>
      </TextArea>
  </Window>
</Alloy>

Then set attributes in the TSS file:

"AttributedString" : {
  attributes: [
    {
      type: Ti.UI.ATTRIBUTE_FOREGROUND_COLOR,
      value: 'red',
      range: [0, 5]
    },
    {
      type: Ti.UI.ATTRIBUTE_UNDERLINES_STYLE,
      value: Ti.UI.ATTRIBUTE_UNDERLINE_STYLE_SINGLE,
      range: [9, 5]
    }
  ]
}

autocorrect

Boolean

Determines whether to automatically correct text entered into this text area.

Set to true to enable automatic spelling correction. On iOS 9+, this can be used to disable QuickType suggestions.

If this property is not explicitly defined, it behaves as though it were set to true.

On Android and iOS, the returned default value is undefined, but behave as if the value is true.

autofillType

Stringsince 6.3.0

Sets the autofill type for the text area.

This sets the hint or content type to aid the autofill feature of iOS and Android to function.

Accepts 32 constants

Default: undefined

backgroundGradient

Gradient

Inherited from Titanium.UI.View

A background gradient for the view.

Linear and Radial Gradients

The following code excerpt creates two views, one with a linear gradient and one with a radial gradient.

var win1 = Titanium.UI.createWindow({
    title:'Tab 1',
    backgroundColor:'#fff',
    layout: 'vertical'
});

var radialGradient = Ti.UI.createView({
    top: 10,
    width: 100,
    height: 100,
    backgroundGradient: {
        type: 'radial',
        startPoint: { x: 50, y: 50 },
        endPoint: { x: 50, y: 50 },
        colors: [ 'red', 'blue'],
        startRadius: 50,
        endRadius: 0,
        backfillStart: true
    }
});
var linearGradient = Ti.UI.createView({
    top: 10,
    width: 100,
    height: 100,
    backgroundGradient: {
        type: 'linear',
        startPoint: { x: '0%', y: '50%' },
        endPoint: { x: '100%', y: '50%' },
        colors: [ { color: 'red', offset: 0.0}, { color: 'blue', offset: 0.25 }, { color: 'red', offset: 1.0 } ],
    }
});
win1.add(radialGradient);
win1.add(linearGradient);
win1.open();

borderRadius

Number | String | Array<Number> | Array<String>

Inherited from Titanium.UI.View

Radius for the rounded corners of the view's border.

Default: 0

bubbleParent

Booleansince Android 3.0.0, iPhone 3.0.0, iPad 3.0.0, macOS 9.2.0

Inherited from Titanium.Proxy

Indicates if the proxy will bubble an event to its parent.

Default: true

clearOnEdit

BooleanAndroid

Determines whether the value of this text area should be cleared when it is focused.

Default: false

color

String | Titanium.UI.Color

Color of the text in this text area, as a color name or hex triplet.

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

editable

Boolean

Determines whether this field can be edited.

Default: true

elevation

NumberAndroidsince 5.0.0Android 5+

Inherited from Titanium.UI.View

Base elevation of the view relative to its parent in pixels.

ellipsize

BooleanAndroid

Determines whether an ellipsis (...) should be used to indicate truncated text.

Default: false

enableCopy

Booleansince 10.0.1

Determines if user can copy or cut text from the text area.

When set false, the "copy" and "cut" options will not appear in the context menu. The Command+C and Command+X keyboard shortcuts will be ignored as well.

Default: true

enableReturnKey

Boolean

Determines whether the return key is enabled automatically when there is text in this text area.

If true, the return key is disabled when this text area is empty, and automatically enabled as soon as the user types any text in the area.

Default: false

focusable

BooleanAndroid

Inherited from Titanium.UI.View

Whether view should be focusable while navigating with the trackball.

Default: false

focused

Booleansince 9.1.0read-only

Determines whether this TextArea has focus.

Default: false

fullscreen

BooleanAndroidsince 6.1.0

Leave some space above the keyboard in landscape mode or not.

Switch between a fullscreen keyboard in landscape mode (default) or a non-fullscreen keyboard which will leave some space to display UI elements.

Default: true

hintText

StringAndroid

Hint text to display when the field is empty.

Hint text is hidden when the user enters text into this text area.

Use the backslash and letter n line feed character combination, ie \n, to force a new line.

Use unicode characters, such as those included in (but not limited to) the Unicode List of Useful Symbols section of wikipedia, to insert special characters and symbols.

Default: No hint text.

hintTextColor

StringAndroidsince 4.1.0

Color of hint text that displays when field is empty.

Hint text color in Android is determined by the theme of the application. By default, a Titanium app uses a Dark theme. When you create the background to be white, the hint text color would also be white, hence not visible to the user. To change this, you can edit the "tiapp.xml" file with another theme. Example as follows:

<android xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <manifest>
        <application android:theme="@style/Theme.MaterialComponents.Light.Bridge"/>
    </manifest>
</android>

Another way to change the hint text color is to use this property and specify a color.

This has no effect when used with hintType Ti.UI.HINT_TYPE_ANIMATED. Instead a theme must be used that defines the android:textColorHint attribute.

Default: Default Android theme's hint text color.

hinttextid

Stringsince 6.2.0

Key identifying a string from the locale file to use for the hintText property.

Only one of hintText or hinttextid should be specified.

html

Stringsince 12.7.0

Pass a HTML-based string and it will be formatted accordingly.

Note that complex HTML structures like images are not supported. Use a Titanium.UI.WebView for those cases.

keyboardToolbar

Array<Titanium.UI.View> | Titanium.UI.ToolbariPhoneiPadmacOS

Array of toolbar button objects or a toolbar to be used when the keyboard is displayed.

As of Release 2.0, because iOS disallows a view (including toolbar buttons) to be in two places at once, developers desiring textAreas or textFields to share a toolbar can instead use a single toolbar instead of having arrays sharing toolbar buttons.

keyboardToolbarHeight

NumberiPhoneiPadmacOS

Height of the keyboard toolbar if keyboardToolbar is an array.

keyboardType

Number

Keyboard type to display when this text area is focused.

When asking for a specific kind of user input, such as a phone number or email address, you should always specify the appropriate keyboard type.

Accepts 14 constants

Default: <Titanium.UI.KEYBOARD_DEFAULT>

layout

String

Inherited from Titanium.UI.View

Specifies how the view positions its children. One of: 'composite', 'vertical', or 'horizontal'.

left

Number | String

Inherited from Titanium.UI.View

View's left position, in platform-specific units.

lines

NumberAndroidsince 7.5.0

Number of lines tall the text area height will be, if set.

Sets the height of the text area by line height. Set to -1 to respect the view's height property instead.

Default: 1

maxLength

Numbersince 3.0.0

Maximum length of text field input.

Any attempt to input text beyond this length (including pasting a string larger than maxLength) will not edit the field's contents. A value of -1 indicates unlimited length.

Default: -1

maxLines

NumberAndroidsince 7.5.0

Maximum line count of text field input.

Sets the maximum of lines that the field will be extended to when pressing Return.

Default: -1

opacity

Number

Inherited from Titanium.UI.View

Opacity of this view, from 0.0 (transparent) to 1.0 (opaque). Defaults to 1.0 (opaque).

padding

Paddingsince Android 6.0.0, iPhone 6.1.0, iPad 6.1.0

Sets the left and right padding of this TextArea. The text will always be vertically centered.

rect

DimensionWithAbsolutessince 2.0.0read-only

Inherited from Titanium.UI.View

The bounding box of the view relative to its parent, in system units.

rotation

NumberAndroidiPhoneiPadsince Android 5.4.0, iPhone 12.3.0, iPad 12.3.0

Inherited from Titanium.UI.View

Clockwise 2D rotation of the view in degrees.

scrollable

BooleaniPhoneiPadmacOS

Determines whether this text area can be scrolled.

Default: true

scrollsToTop

BooleaniPhoneiPadmacOSsince 2.1.2

Controls whether the scroll-to-top gesture is effective.

The scroll-to-top gesture is a tap on the status bar; The default value of this property is true. This gesture works when you have a single visible text area. If there are multiple table views, web views, text areas, and/or scroll views visible, you will need to disable (set to false) on the above views you DON'T want this behaviour on. The remaining view will then respond to scroll-to-top gesture.

Default: true

selection

textAreaSelectedParamssince 3.3.0read-only

Returns the currently selected text of the text area.

This property is useful to track the current cursor position of the text area. On iOS this property can be used in lieu of the selected event.

This method will return null on Android and undefined on iOS if the view has not yet been attached to the window.

showUndoRedoActions

BooleaniPadmacOSsince 5.0.0

Determines if the undo and redo buttons on the left side of the keyboard should be displayed or not. Only valid on iOS 9 and above. This property can only be set upon creation.

Default: true

suppressReturn

BooleaniPhoneiPadmacOS

Determines if the return key should be suppressed during text entry.

tooltip

Stringsince 12.1.0iOS 15.0+

Inherited from Titanium.UI.View

The default text to display in the control's tooltip.

touchFeedback

BooleanAndroidsince 6.1.0

Inherited from Titanium.UI.View

A material design visual construct that provides an instantaneous visual confirmation of touch point.

Default: false

translationX

NumberAndroidsince 5.0.0

Inherited from Titanium.UI.View

Horizontal location of the view relative to its left position in pixels.

value

String

Value of this text area, which may be set programmatically and modified by the user.

Use the backslash and letter n line feed character combination, ie \n, to force a new line.

Use unicode characters, such as those included in (but not limited to) the Unicode List of Useful Symbols section of wikipedia, to insert special characters and symbols.

Methods 17

addEventListener

Inherited from Titanium.Proxy

Adds the specified callback as an event listener for the named event.

Parameters
ParametersTypeDescription
nameString

Name of the event.

callbackCallback<Titanium.Event>

Callback function to invoke when the event is fired.

4 fields
bubbles Boolean

True if the event will try to bubble up if possible.

cancelBubble Boolean

Set to true to stop the event from bubbling.

source Object

Source object that fired the event.

type String

Name of the event fired.

blur

Forces this text area to lose focus.

convertPointToView

since Android 1.8, iPhone 1.8, iPad 1.8, macOS 9.2.0

Inherited from Titanium.UI.View

Translates a point from this view's coordinate system to another view's coordinate system.

Parameters
ParametersTypeDescription
pointPoint

A point in this view's coordinate system.

If this argument is missing an x or y property, or the properties can not be converted into numbers, an exception will be raised.

destinationViewTitanium.UI.View

View that specifies the destination coordinate system to convert to. If this argument is not a view, an exception will be raised.

Returns Point

fireEvent

Inherited from Titanium.Proxy

Fires a synthesized event to any registered listeners.

Parameters
ParametersTypeDescription
nameString

Name of the event.

event?Dictionary

A dictionary of keys and values to add to the Titanium.Event object sent to the listeners.

focus

Forces this text area to gain focus.

getViewById

since 6.1.0

Inherited from Titanium.UI.View

Returns the matching view of a given view ID.

Parameters
ParametersTypeDescription
idString

The ID of the view that should be returned. Use the id property in your views to enable it for indexing in this method.

Returns Titanium.UI.View

hasText

since 2.1.0

Returns true if this text area contains text.

Returns Boolean

True if this text area contains text.

hide

Inherited from Titanium.UI.View

Hides this view.

Parameters
ParametersTypeDescription
options?AnimatedOptions

Animation options for Android only. Since SDK 5.1.0 and used only on Android 5.0+

Determines whether to enable a circular reveal animation. Note that the default here is equivalent to passing in { animated: false }

insertAt

since 3.3.0

Inherited from Titanium.UI.View

Inserts a view at the specified position in the children array.

Parameters
ParametersTypeDescription
paramsViewPositionOptions

Pass an object that specifies the view to insert and optionally at which position (defaults to end)

2 fields
position? Number

Position in the children array of the view element to replace.

view Titanium.UI.View

View to insert. Required.

removeEventListener

Inherited from Titanium.Proxy

Removes the specified callback as an event listener for the named event.

Parameters
ParametersTypeDescription
nameString

Name of the event.

callbackCallback<Titanium.Event>

Callback function to remove. Must be the same function passed to addEventListener.

4 fields
bubbles Boolean

True if the event will try to bubble up if possible.

cancelBubble Boolean

Set to true to stop the event from bubbling.

source Object

Source object that fired the event.

type String

Name of the event fired.

setSelection

since 3.0.0

Selects the text in range (start, end).

Selects the text in range (start, end). If start equals end, no text will be selected, and the cursor will move to the start position. End is not inclusive, meaning setSelection(0,0) will not select the first character, but will move the cursor to the position before the first character.

On iOS, soft keyboard would show when text is selected.

Parameters
ParametersTypeDescription
startNumber

Start index for selection. Value ranges from 0 to the text's length.

endNumber

End index for selection, not inclusive. Value ranges from 0 to the text's length.

show

Inherited from Titanium.UI.View

Makes this view visible.

Parameters
ParametersTypeDescription
options?AnimatedOptions

Animation options for Android only. Since SDK 5.1.0 and only used on Android 5.0+

Determines whether to enable a circular reveal animation. Note that the default here is equivalent to passing in { animated: false }

toImage

Inherited from Titanium.UI.View

Returns an image of the rendered view, as a Blob.

Parameters
ParametersTypeDescription
callback?Callback<Titanium.Blob>

Function to be invoked upon completion. If non-null, this method will be performed asynchronously. If null, it will be performed immediately.

honorScaleFactor?Boolean

Determines whether the image is scaled based on scale factor of main screen. (iOS only)

When set to true, image is scale factor is honored. When set to false, the image in the blob has the same dimensions for retina and non-retina devices.

Returns Titanium.Blob

Events 22

blur

Fired when this text area loses focus.

Event properties
Event propertiesTypeDescription
valueString

Value of this text area.

change

Fired when this text area value changes.

Event properties
Event propertiesTypeDescription
valueString

New value of this text area.

contentHeightNumber

Content height value of this text area

click

Inherited from Titanium.UI.View

Fired when the device detects a click against the view.

Event properties
Event propertiesTypeDescription
xNumber

X coordinate of the event from the source view's coordinate system.

yNumber

Y coordinate of the event from the source view's coordinate system.

obscuredBoolean

Returns true if the click passed through an overlapping window belonging to another app.

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.

dblclick

Inherited from Titanium.UI.View

Fired when the device detects a double click against the view.

Event properties
Event propertiesTypeDescription
xNumber

X coordinate of the event from the source view's coordinate system.

yNumber

Y coordinate of the event from the source view's coordinate system.

obscuredBoolean

Returns true if the double click passed through an overlapping window belonging to another app.

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.

doubletap

Inherited from Titanium.UI.View

Fired when the device detects a double tap against the view.

Event properties
Event propertiesTypeDescription
xNumber

X coordinate of the event from the source view's coordinate system.

yNumber

Y coordinate of the event from the source view's coordinate system.

obscuredBoolean

Returns true if the double tap passed through an overlapping window belonging to another app.

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.

focus

Fired when this text area gains focus.

Event properties
Event propertiesTypeDescription
valueString

Value of this text area.

keypressed

since Android 3.1.0, iPhone 5.4.0, iPad 5.4.0, macOS 9.2.0

Inherited from Titanium.UI.View

Fired when a hardware key is pressed in the view.

Event properties
Event propertiesTypeDescription
keyCodeNumber

The code for the physical key that was pressed. For more details, see KeyEvent. This API is experimental and subject to change.

longpress

Inherited from Titanium.UI.View

Fired when the device detects a long press.

Event properties
Event propertiesTypeDescription
xNumber

X coordinate of the event from the source view's coordinate system.

yNumber

Y coordinate of the event from the source view's coordinate system.

obscuredBoolean

Returns true if the long press passed through an overlapping window belonging to another app.

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.

pinch

since 1.8.0

Inherited from Titanium.UI.View

Fired when the device detects a pinch gesture.

Event properties
Event propertiesTypeDescription
scaleNumber

The scale factor relative to the points of the two touches in screen coordinates.

velocityNumber

The velocity of the pinch in scale factor per second.

timeNumber

The event time of the current event being processed.

timeDeltaNumber

The time difference in milliseconds between the previous accepted scaling event and the current scaling event.

currentSpanNumber

The average distance between each of the pointers forming the gesture in progress through the focal point.

currentSpanXNumber

The average X distance between each of the pointers forming the gesture in progress through the focal point.

currentSpanYNumber

The average Y distance between each of the pointers forming the gesture in progress through the focal point.

previousSpanNumber

The previous average distance between each of the pointers forming the gesture in progress through the focal point.

previousSpanXNumber

The previous average X distance between each of the pointers forming the gesture in progress through the focal point.

previousSpanYNumber

The previous average Y distance between each of the pointers forming the gesture in progress through the focal point.

focusXNumber

The X coordinate of the current gesture's focal point.

focusYNumber

The Y coordinate of the current gesture's focal point.

inProgressBoolean

Returns true if a scale gesture is in progress, false otherwise.

return

Fired when the return key is pressed on the keyboard.

Event properties
Event propertiesTypeDescription
valueString

Value of this text area.

rotate

since 12.7.0

Inherited from Titanium.UI.View

Fired when the device detects a two finger rotation.

Event properties
Event propertiesTypeDescription
rotateNumber

Rotation in degrees.

selected

iPhoneiPadmacOS

Fired when text in this text area is selected.

Event properties
Event propertiesTypeDescription
rangetextAreaSelectedParams

Dictionary that describes the position and length of the selected text.

2 fields
length Number

Number of characters selected.

location Number

Starting position of selected text.

singletap

Inherited from Titanium.UI.View

Fired when the device detects a single tap against the view.

Event properties
Event propertiesTypeDescription
xNumber

X coordinate of the event from the source view's coordinate system.

yNumber

Y coordinate of the event from the source view's coordinate system.

obscuredBoolean

Returns true if the single tap passed through an overlapping window belonging to another app.

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.

swipe

Inherited from Titanium.UI.View

Fired when the device detects a swipe gesture against the view.

Event properties
Event propertiesTypeDescription
directionString

Direction of the swipe--either 'left', 'right', 'up', or 'down'.

xNumber

X coordinate of the event's endpoint from the source view's coordinate system.

yNumber

Y coordinate of the event's endpoint from the source view's coordinate system.

obscuredBoolean

Returns true if the swipe passed through an overlapping window belonging to another app.

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.

touchcancel

Inherited from Titanium.UI.View

Fired when a touch event is interrupted by the device.

Event properties
Event propertiesTypeDescription
xNumber

X coordinate of the event from the source view's coordinate system.

yNumber

Y coordinate of the event from the source view's coordinate system.

forceNumber

The current force value of the touch event. Note: This property is only available for iOS devices that support 3D-Touch and run 9.0 or later and on some Android devices.

sizeNumber

The current size of the touch area. Note: This property is only available on some Android devices.

maximumPossibleForceNumber

Maximum possible value of the force property. Note: This property is only available for iOS devices that support 3D-Touch and run 9.0 or later.

altitudeAngleNumber

A value which indicates the stylus angle on the screen. If the stylus is perpendicular to the screen or no stylus is being used, the value will be Pi/2. If the stylus is parallel to the screen, the value will be 0. Note: This property is only available for iOS devices that support 3D-Touch and are 9.1 or later.

timestampNumber

The time (in seconds) when the touch was used in correlation with the system start up. Note: This property is only available for iOS devices that support 3D-Touch and run 9.0 or later.

azimuthUnitVectorInViewXNumber

The x value of the unit vector that points in the direction of the azimuth of the stylus. Note: This property is only available for iOS devices that support the Apple Pencil and are 9.1 or later.

azimuthUnitVectorInViewYNumber

The y value of the unit vector that points in the direction of the azimuth of the stylus. Note: This property is only available for iOS devices that support the Apple Pencil and are 9.1 or later.

obscuredBoolean

Returns true if the touch passed through an overlapping window belonging to another app.

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.

touchend

Inherited from Titanium.UI.View

Fired when a touch event is completed.

Event properties
Event propertiesTypeDescription
xNumber

X coordinate of the event from the source view's coordinate system.

yNumber

Y coordinate of the event from the source view's coordinate system.

forceNumber

The current force value of the touch event. Note: This property is only available for iOS devices that support 3D-Touch and run 9.0 or later and on some Android devices.

sizeNumber

The current size of the touch area. Note: This property is only available on some Android devices.

maximumPossibleForceNumber

Maximum possible value of the force property. Note: This property is only available for iOS devices that support 3D-Touch and run 9.0 or later.

altitudeAngleNumber

A value which indicates the stylus angle on the screen. If the stylus is perpendicular to the screen or no stylus is being used, the value will be Pi/2. If the stylus is parallel to the screen, the value will be 0. Note: This property is only available for iOS devices that support 3D-Touch and are 9.1 or later.

timestampNumber

The time (in seconds) when the touch was used in correlation with the system start up. Note: This property is only available for iOS devices that support 3D-Touch and run 9.0 or later.

azimuthUnitVectorInViewXNumber

The x value of the unit vector that points in the direction of the azimuth of the stylus. Note: This property is only available for iOS devices that support the Apple Pencil and are 9.1 or later.

azimuthUnitVectorInViewYNumber

The y value of the unit vector that points in the direction of the azimuth of the stylus. Note: This property is only available for iOS devices that support the Apple Penciland are 9.1 or later.

obscuredBoolean

Returns true if the touch passed through an overlapping window belonging to another app.

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.

touchmove

Inherited from Titanium.UI.View

Fired as soon as the device detects movement of a touch.

Event properties
Event propertiesTypeDescription
xNumber

X coordinate of the event from the source view's coordinate system.

yNumber

Y coordinate of the event from the source view's coordinate system.

forceNumber

The current force value of the touch event. Note: This property is only available for iOS devices that support 3D-Touch and run 9.0 or later and on some Android devices.

sizeNumber

The current size of the touch area. Note: This property is only available on some Android devices.

maximumPossibleForceNumber

Maximum possible value of the force property. Note: This property is only available for iOS devices that support 3D-Touch and run 9.0 or later.

altitudeAngleNumber

A value which indicates the stylus angle on the screen. If the stylus is perpendicular to the screen or no stylus is being used, the value will be Pi/2. If the stylus is parallel to the screen, the value will be 0. Note: This property is only available for iOS devices that support 3D-Touch and are 9.1 or later.

timestampNumber

The time (in seconds) when the touch was used in correlation with the system start up. Note: This property is only available for iOS devices that support 3D-Touch and run 9.0 or later.

azimuthUnitVectorInViewXNumber

The x value of the unit vector that points in the direction of the azimuth of the stylus. Note: This property is only available for iOS devices that support the Apple Pencil and are 9.1 or later.

azimuthUnitVectorInViewYNumber

The y value of the unit vector that points in the direction of the azimuth of the stylus. Note: This property is only available for iOS devices that support the Apple Pencil and are 9.1 or later.

obscuredBoolean

Returns true if the touch passed through an overlapping window belonging to another app.

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.

touchstart

Inherited from Titanium.UI.View

Fired as soon as the device detects a touch gesture.

Event properties
Event propertiesTypeDescription
xNumber

X coordinate of the event from the source view's coordinate system.

yNumber

Y coordinate of the event from the source view's coordinate system.

forceNumber

The current force value of the touch event. Note: This property is only available for iOS devices that support 3D-Touch and run 9.0 or later and on some Android devices.

sizeNumber

The current size of the touch area. Note: This property is only available on some Android devices.

maximumPossibleForceNumber

Maximum possible value of the force property. Note: This property is only available for iOS devices that support 3D-Touch and run 9.0 or later.

altitudeAngleNumber

A value which indicates the stylus angle on the screen. If the stylus is perpendicular to the screen or no stylus is being used, the value will be Pi/2. If the stylus is parallel to the screen, the value will be 0. Note: This property is only available for iOS devices that support 3D-Touch and are 9.1 or later.

timestampNumber

The time (in seconds) when the touch was used in correlation with the system start up. Note: This property is only available for iOS devices that support 3D-Touch and run 9.0 or later.

azimuthUnitVectorInViewXNumber

The x value of the unit vector that points in the direction of the azimuth of the stylus. Note: This property is only available for iOS devices that support the Apple Pencil and are 9.1 or later.

azimuthUnitVectorInViewYNumber

The y value of the unit vector that points in the direction of the azimuth of the stylus. Note: This property is only available for iOS devices that support the Apple Pencil and are 9.1 or later.

obscuredBoolean

Returns true if the touch passed through an overlapping window belonging to another app.

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.

twofingertap

since 3.0.0

Inherited from Titanium.UI.View

Fired when the device detects a two-finger tap against the view.

Event properties
Event propertiesTypeDescription
xNumber

X coordinate of the event from the source view's coordinate system.

yNumber

Y coordinate of the event from the source view's coordinate system.

obscuredBoolean

Returns true if the tap passed through an overlapping window belonging to another app.

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.