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Chapter 10 - Getting Started With Appcelerator Titanium

This chapter provides an overview of Appcelerator Titanium, a framework that allows developers to write mobile apps using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that compile to native iOS and Android apps. It discusses Titanium's history and growth, how it works, examples of companies using it, and steps for getting started, including downloading tools and the Titanium SDK. It also previews topics for building a sample app in Titanium, such as tables, pickers, navigation, web services, GPS, and accelerometer access.

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Chapter 10 - Getting Started With Appcelerator Titanium

This chapter provides an overview of Appcelerator Titanium, a framework that allows developers to write mobile apps using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that compile to native iOS and Android apps. It discusses Titanium's history and growth, how it works, examples of companies using it, and steps for getting started, including downloading tools and the Titanium SDK. It also previews topics for building a sample app in Titanium, such as tables, pickers, navigation, web services, GPS, and accelerometer access.

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Chapter 10

Getting Started with Appcelerator Titanium


What’s in this Chapter?
• Appcelerator Titanium was released in December 2008, and has been
steadily growing in functionality since its release.
• Starting with its Titanium Developer product, Appcelerator provided a
single-point interface to run applications.
• As features were added to the Native iOS SDK, Titanium released a
new, major revision, and each minor version included bug fixes and
code to bring parity between Android and iOS.
Why Use Titanium?
• The primary development languages for Titanium are HTML, CSS, and
JavaScript.
• The compile process generates iOS and Android source code, as well
as a distributable binary, respective to each platform.
• By leveraging the Titanium framework developers are provided a
single way to create all of their UI, transparent to the native
codebase.
Who is Using Titanium?
• NBC, GetGlue,
• Appcelerator keeps track of its user base through the login contained within
the IDE
• When creating projects in Titanium Studio, your login name is registered with
your project's App Id, so Appcelerator understands how many apps you are
developing
• Appcelerator makes sure to let all the developers know when new features
and versions are being released
• Every quarter, Appcelerator, along with IDC (an IT market analysis and
research firm), release their mobile developer analytics report from
information gathered from developer surveys
Getting the Tools You Need
• Installing Titanium Studio
• Downloading the Kitchen Sink
• Development
• Project Structure
• Titanium Basics
• Creating User interfaces
• Basic UI Elements in Titanium
• Basic UI View Elements in Titanium
Getting the Tools You Need
• Basic UI Data/Layout Elements in Titanium
• Debugging
• Connecting Titanium to the Markets
• Versioning Your App
Building the Derby App in Titanium
• Tables
• Pickers
• Navigation (Back Stack) and Tab Groups
• Modal Forms
• Alerts
• Offline Storage
• SQLite
• Isolated Storage
Building the Derby App in Titanium
• Preferences and Settings
• Web Service
• JSON Is Your Friend
• GPS
• Accelerometer
Summary
• Titanium is not a magic bullet. It is a solid framework for developing a single codebase
to deploy to multiple platforms.
• Titanium allows developers to use a language they are more familiar with to create
apps in a domain outside of their knowledge.
• Titanium is not an exact match to native languages. Not all features of the mobile
platforms are exposed (or can necessarily be exposed) in its API.
• With the addition of Titanium Studio, developing in the framework has grown by leaps
and bounds.
• The team at Appcelerator works to pack as much functionality into their framework as
possible.
• Titanium is an excellent tool to learn mobile device programming, and for many
projects can provide the necessary functionality to deliver a finished product.

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