Alloy includes a simple jake app-runner script that you can use to test the sample apps. You must run the jake app:run command from your Alloy repo directory. It requires one additional argument -- dir -- which points to the app's folder within test/apps.

In general form:

# general form
jake app:run dir=folder/appname

# for example
jake app:run dir=ui/tableview

You can pass any command-line argument supported by the ti build command (see the docs) with a couple of caveats:

• Do not include the single or double-dashes specified by the ti build command docs.
• Separate the argument and values with an equals sign, not a space.
• The -p or --platform argument defaults to ios for OS X users and android for Windows or Linux users. So, you can omit that argument if the default is suitable.
• If the ti build argument expects no value (such as --tall), you must specify a true value with the jake command.
• You can use either the sdk or tiversion argument to specify the CLI version to use with the build command. See note below.

Some examples:

jake app:run dir=basics/simple platform=mobileweb
jake app:run dir=basics/simple platform=ios sim-type=ipad
jake app:run dir=basics/simple platform=ios tall=true retina=true
jake app:run dir=ALOY-1000 # shortcut to run an app from test/apps/testing folder

The sdk argument to ti build specifies the version of the CLI that will be used to parse the tiapp.xml file. It does not override the sdk-version value specified in the tiapp.xml. However, for only the testing apps (test/apps/testing), that argument will specify the sdk-version. That's because those testing apps do not have an <sdk-version> tag in their tiapp.xml file. The SDK version used is determined by either the command-line argument you supply to the jake command or the value you have set with the ti sdk select command.