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Day Three: Titanium Mobile for New Developers

Kevin Whinnery

Titanium Mobile For New Developers

KEVIN WHINNERY

DIRECTOR OFDEVELOPER RELATIONS

APPCELERATOR

• What is Titanium?

• What can I do?

• What’s it like to work with?

• Where can I learn more?

• Q&A

Agenda

What is Titanium?

In a minute, but first, why Titanium?

• Many compelling platforms

• Innovative and different

• Different audiences, demographics

• Different toolsets, form factors

The Multi-Platform Problem

• “Web versus native”

• Which to choose?

• Who writes the code?

• How many codebases can I support?

Questions To Answer

Cross-platform development is the answer…

…but we don’t want to “write once, suck everywhere”*

*Loren Brichter, creator of Twitter for iPhone

• Top mobile platforms

• Full API access

• Seamless UX

• Open, extensible

• Bonus: use existing skills

Cross-platform Requirements

Titanium Mobile is a platform for building best in class cross-platform mobile

applications in JavaScript

• Open source

• Extensible

• Full native API access for UI and everything else

• Supports Android, iOS, and Mobile Web (beta)

Titanium Key Facts

• App Logic in JavaScript

• Titanium provides a meta-API for native APIs to a JS runtime

• Your app = Your JS code + an interpreter + the Titanium runtime

How does it work?

What can you do with it?

• NBC

• Bravo

• Go Explore!

• TripLingo

• Top Brands

• Big Companies

• AAA Apps

Apps Powered By Titanium

What’s it like to code with?

UI construction and all code written in JavaScript

Manage and run projects through Titanium Studio IDE

Target multiple platforms from a single codebase.

Basic Flow of Titanium Dev

How can I learn more?

Project Walkthrough

• Dev Center

• Forging Titanium

• Dev Blog

• Wiki

• API Docs

Learning Resources

• Twitter

• Facebook

• Mailing List

• Community at appcelerator

• Stay in touch!

Stay Up To Date

Any Questions?

Thank You!