Lets you zip and unzip files.
View the Using Titanium Modules document for instructions on getting started with using this module in your application.
Note that there may be two versions of this module available to you, one for use with pre-1.8.0.1 SDKs and one for use with 1.8.0.1 or newer. In your tiapp.xml file, make sure that you specify the version of the module that corresponds to the version of Titanium Mobile SDK that you are targeting. For Appcelerator modules, specify the 1.X version of the module if building for versions of Titanium Mobile SDK prior to 1.8.0.1 and specify the 2.X version of the module if building for versions of Titanium Mobile SDK 1.8.0.1 or newer.
To access this module from JavaScript, you would do the following:
var Compression = require('ti.compression');
Compresses all of the files you pass in "fileArray" to the specified "archiveFile".
Returns the string "success" if the operation succeeded, or an error message if something went wrong.
Extracts the files in the archive file into the destination folder, optionally overriding existing files.
Returns the string "success" if the operation succeeded, or an error message if something went wrong.
To create an archive:
var result = Ti.Compression.zip('test.zip', [ 'a.dat', 'b.dat', 'c.dat' ];
To extract an archive:
var result = Ti.Compression.unzip(Ti.Filesystem.applicationDataDirectory + 'data', 'test.zip', true);
See example for more details.
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