Titanium Alloy ListView XML Uncaught TypeError: Object #<UI> has no method 'createTemplates' - android-listview

Question

I am new to Titanium, so excuse my lack of understanding.
Even though I am using sdk version 3.2 (have sdk-version: 3.2.0.v20130801162445 in my tiapp.xml) when I try and have a view that uses the xml above I get this error:
[ERROR][V8Exception( 615)] Exception occurred at alloy/controllers/feed.js:22: Uncaught TypeError: Object # has no method 'createTemplates'
I cut down all my code so that the feed.js file is just:
function loadMoreBtnClicked(_event) {
alert('not implemented yet');
}
function createListView(_data) {
// this is pretty straight forward, assigning the values to the specific
// properties in the template we defined above
var items = [];
for (var i in _data) {
// add items to an array
items.push({
template : "template1", // set the template
textLabel : {
text : _data[i].name // assign the values from the data
},
pic : {
image : _data[i].pic_square // assign the values from the data
}
});
}
// add the array, items, to the section defined in the feed.xml file
$.section.setItems(items);
}
alert('feed loaded');
The XML is in feed.xml and looks like this:
<Alloy>
<Window class="container" formFactor="handheld">
<ListView id="list" defaultItemTemplate="template1">
<Templates>
<ItemTemplate name="buttonItem" height="Ti.UI.SIZE">
<!-- will use this in the next blog post -->
<Button id="loadMoreBtn" onClick="loadMoreBtnClicked">Load More</Button>
</ItemTemplate>
<!-- main template for displaying the list items -->
<ItemTemplate id="template1" name="template1" class="template1">
<ImageView id="pic" bindId="pic" class="imageThumb"/>
<View id="textContainer">
<Label id="textLabel" bindId="textLabel" class="title"/>
</View>
</ItemTemplate>
</Templates>
<!-- we only have one section and the items are contstucted using template1 -->
<ListSection id="section" >
<ListItem template="template1" />
</ListSection>
</ListView>
</Window>
</Alloy>
I still get the error (just using the XML with no actual controller code other than the alert running). If I pull the ListView XML out of the feed.xml file the alert fires, when I put the ListView XML back in I get the Error above.
I am trying to use code from this example:
https://gist.github.com/aaronksaunders/5896390
but cant really tell what I am missing?
Thanks!
-James

Answer 1

found out what the issue was, my problem had to do with not having the updated version of alloy that is needed to support the ListView Templates in XML. I needed to run this at the command line in Windows: "npm install -g alloy#1.2.0-alpha" (without quotes). After that I was able to use ListView templates in XML as shown above.