arenhardt / androzip

zip archives extractor module for the Appcelerator Titanium Android platform

androzip Module

Description

Titanium Android module to extract Zip files

Accessing the androzip Module

To access this module from JavaScript, you would do the following:

var androzip = require("com.websiteburo.androzip");

The androzip variable is a reference to the Module object.

Reference

Install

1. Download or build from source androzip module.
2. Place com.websiteburo.androzip-android-x.y.z.zip file to /Library/Application Support/Titanium and unzip it.

How to use

Register the androzip module with your application by editing 'tiapp.xml' and adding the module:

<modules>
	<module version="0.1">com.websiteburo.androzip</module>
</modules>

Put this into your code :

var androzip = require("com.websiteburo.androzip");
androzip.extract(path_to_zip_file, dir_to_extract);

Example

//app.js: download zip from DropBox to Documents folder
//        and extact file to Documents folder
 
Titanium.UI.setBackgroundColor('#000');
 
var win1 = Titanium.UI.createWindow({
      title:'AndroZip test',
      backgroundColor:'#000'
});
 
win1.open();
var xhr = Titanium.Network.createHTTPClient();

var androzip = require('com.websiteburo.androzip');
Ti.API.info("module is => " + androzip);

 
xhr.onload = function(){
   var f = Ti.Filesystem.getFile(Ti.Filesystem.applicationDataDirectory, 'test.zip');
   var fdir = Ti.Filesystem.getFile(Ti.Filesystem.applicationDataDirectory);
   f.write(this.responseData);
   androzip.extract(f.nativePath, fdir.nativePath);
};
xhr.open('GET','http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1400234/test.zip');
xhr.send();

Author

Henri Bourcereau - Websiteburo http://www.websiteburo.com

License

MIT License