EP06 – Getting Started Appcelerator Titanium Mobile
This week we talk about what you need to know about developing with Appcelerator Titanium. We mention useful information for the first time Titanium developer.
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Hack of The Week
In light of this weeks topic, Erick talks about one of his first Titanium project. Started out as a fun project to get to know Titanium and ended up being a very useful picture frame.
Need To Know
- Use on both Windows and Mac OSX
- NEED Mac for iOS apps.
- Pros / Cons
- Pro: one code base multi platform
- Pro: JS [lang of the web] – you can start now
- Pro: can be extended to include latest SDK features
- Con: less control on system level things [mem]
- Con: native sdk moves faster than Ti
- Con: only iOS and Android for now [free]
How Do I Use It
- Installation
- Install native SDK first
- Android is a bit of pain
- Titanium Studio IDE
- New Projects, compiles/debugs
- build for deployment
- app.js
- separating code into different files (windows)
- commonJS modules [v1.8]
- Namespacing
Moving Forward
- Extending Titanium with Native Modules
- Ti Frameworks [link below]
- MVC
- Best Practices [link below]
- More? Vote for it on our website.

