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Xamarin vs Titanium vs FireMonkey: should cross-platform tools abstract the GUI?

By tim, on February 21st, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Cross-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

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Appcelerator Titanium gets Mobile Web SDK, cloud services

By tim, on April 20th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Appcelerator’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

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Appcelerator CEO on EMEA expansion, Titanium vs PhoneGap, and how WebKit drives HTML5 standards

By tim, on January 19th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I 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

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Hands On with Appcelerator Titanium Studio

By tim, on June 15th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I 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,

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Appcelerator has released Titanium Studio, IDE for cross-platform mobile development

By tim, on June 14th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Appcelerator 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.

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Developers and mobile platforms: lies, damn lies and surveys

By tim, on April 26th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I’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

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Native apps better than web apps? That’s silly talk says PhoneGap president

By tim, on April 18th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

When I attended Mobile World Congress in February one of my goals was to explore the merits of the various different approaches to writing cross-platform mobile apps. One of the key ones is PhoneGap, and I got in touch with Nitobi’s president and co-founder André Charland. As it turned out he was not at that

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Is Appcelerator Titanium native? And what does native mean anyway?

By tim, on April 16th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Of 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

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Appcelerator acquires Aptana

By tim, on January 18th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Appcelerator, a company whose main product is a cross-platform desktop and mobile toolkit called Titanium, has acquired Aptana, whose Aptana Studio 2 is probably the best IDE for JavaScript application development, and which also supports Ruby on Rails, PHP, Python, and Adobe AIR.

It makes sense, in that Titanium uses JavaScript as the primary language

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