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By tim, on February 21st, 2013 Follow tim on TwitterCross-platform development is a big deal, and will continue to be so until a day comes when everyone uses the same platform. Android? HTML? WebKit? iOS? Windows? Maybe one day, but for now the world is multi-platform, and unless you can afford to ignore all platforms but one, or to develop independent projects for each
…continue reading Xamarin vs Titanium vs FireMonkey: should cross-platform tools abstract the GUI?
By tim, on October 3rd, 2012 Follow tim on TwitterCross-platform mobile tools vendor Appcelerator has released its latest mobile developer survey (in conjunction with IDC) representing the views of around 5,500 developers using its tools.
It is worth a read this time around. I was particularly interested to see what Appcelerator developers think of Windows 8, launching later this month. There is a chart
…continue reading Appcelerator mobile developer survey shows Windows 8 progress, uncertainty
By tim, on April 20th, 2012 Follow tim on TwitterAppcelerator’s Titanium cross-platform development framework has moved up a gear with the announcement of two new features:
A set of cloud services, based on those acquired with Cocoafish in February this year. These are now known as Appcelerator Cloud Services (ACS). Support for mobile web applications as well as native
These features are integrated into
…continue reading Appcelerator Titanium gets Mobile Web SDK, cloud services
By tim, on January 19th, 2012 Follow tim on TwitterI spoke to Appcelerator CEO Jeff Haynie yesterday, just before today’s announcement of the opening of an EMEA headquarters in Reading. It has only 4 or 5 staff at the moment, mostly sales and marketing, but will expand into professional services and training.
Appcelerator’s product is a cross-platform (though see below) development platform for both
…continue reading Appcelerator CEO on EMEA expansion, Titanium vs PhoneGap, and how WebKit drives HTML5 standards
By tim, on September 22nd, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterAppcelerator has launched its Mobile Marketplace, offering software components for mobile and web developers using Titanium, Appcelerator’s cross-platform toolkit for Apple iOS, Google Android, and others – though only iOS and Android seem to be supported in the Marketplace currently.
Developers create modules using the Titanium Module SDK, and get 70% of revenue.
I
…continue reading Appcelerator opens component marketplace for mobile developers
By tim, on June 15th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterI spent some time today trying out Appcelerator’s new Titanium Studio. Titanium is a cross-platform framework that lets you compile apps for Apple iOS, Google Android, RIM Blackberry, and desktop operating systems. Its chief attraction is the mobile aspect, particularly as it claims to build “native apps”.
I am thoroughly bored of writing calculator apps,
…continue reading Hands On with Appcelerator Titanium Studio
By tim, on June 14th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterAppcelerator has released Titanium Studio, an IDE built with Aptana, the Eclipse-based IDE which the company acquired in January. It is an interesting products because it lets you build cross-platform mobile apps for Apple iOS, Google Android, and Blackberry, as well as desktop applications.
I downloaded the community edition and gave it a quick try.
…continue reading Appcelerator has released Titanium Studio, IDE for cross-platform mobile development
By tim, on May 5th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterWeb Directions has published a State of Mobile Web Development based on input from around 1300 professional web developers. Note that this is a survey of web developers not app developers, which must skew the results if you are interested in the overall app picture, but it is still interesting.
One result deals with developer
…continue reading Mobile developers follow the users; PhoneGap most popular cross-platform toolkit says survey
By tim, on April 26th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterI’ve been reading the IDC/Appcelerator developer survey about their attitudes to mobile platforms. The survey covered 2,760 Appcelerator Titanium developers between April 11-13, so it is certainly current and with a sample just about big enough to be interesting.
The survey asks developers if they are “very interested” in developing for specific platforms, with the
…continue reading Developers and mobile platforms: lies, damn lies and surveys
By tim, on April 16th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterOf course we all know that Microsoft’s IE9 and the forthcoming IE10 are native – VP Dean Hachamovitch said so many times during his keynote at the Mix 2011 conference earlier this week. That has sparked a debate about what native means – so here is another interesting case.
Appcelerator’s Titanium cross-platform tool for mobile
…continue reading Is Appcelerator Titanium native? And what does native mean anyway?
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