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titanium-sdk

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titanium-sdk

🚀 Native iOS and Android Apps with JavaScript & TypeScript

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🚀 Native iOS and Android Apps with JavaScript & TypeScript

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What Hacker News says

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SpikeGronim·Sep 21, 2012

Thanks for responding here Jeff. The license on https://github.com/appcelerator/titanium_mobile is Apache 2.0. How can you possibly ask for money from a developer who used Apache 2.0 code? It seems like a black and white issue and that you are in the wrong. Please address the Apache 2.0 license in your response.

In Licensing of Titanium chaotic and unclear

drewda·Apr 5, 2011

Yup, exactly! My own attempt at a contribution is just fixing some arithmetic <https://github.com/appcelerator/titanium_mobile/pull/80>; and it's going nowhere...

In Appcelerator Titanium: From a developer's perspective

skue·Apr 4, 2011

So glad to see more people pointing this out. Titanium sounds like a great idea and they market it well, but when you look closer you quickly discover that it just fails to deliver. Sadly they seem too focused on spending VC cash on adding bells in whistles when their core functionality still doesn't work. Here are a few examples. Running their sample app. This is the first thing every developer does, so you'd think they'd have nailed this much, right? Sadly, no. Check out all the forums posts about people struggling to get KitchenSink running: http://developer.appcelerator.com/questions/search/kitchensi... Some of that is the complexity of getting the right 3rd party developer tools installed. But often projects will randomly stop compiling. Instead of fixing the underlying problem, this is their workaround (it's not just KitchenSink, it

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happens to your projects too): http://developer.appcelerator.com/question/53821/kitchen-sin... They don't seem to have anyone who monitors their forums. When core functionality breaks and people report it, nothing gets done about it for months, even when the fix is as simple as whitespace. This was reported in Oct, and a pull request was submitted in Jan. http://developer.appcelerator.com/question/82691/run-on-devi... It was finally fixed last month: https://github.com/appcelerator/titanium_mobile/commit/510fc... Open source means the community should be able to pitch in, but there are 16 open pull requests from the last 2 months, none closed or even commented on: https://github.com/appcelerator/titanium_mobile/pulls New features are rolled out with sparse documentation and then abandoned. Need to style a bunch of views, try JSS - except it's not documented in detail anywhere. But maybe they dropped JSS and are working on Helium? http://developer.appcelerator.com/question/91331/jss---class... Or not. Helium hasn't been updated in months and still isn't documented anywhere on the Appcelerator site. So who knows. There are many other issues, of course. Ultimately you end up having 3 options: (1) pay them a bunch of money for support, (2) spend more time fixing their software then working on your own code, or (3) just writing native apps for the various platforms (or native web wrappers with HTML core). I wouldn't mind paying for support if the product worked great, but paying to get support for something that's broken to begin with is frustrating. It's ultimately easier to just find alternative technologies.

In Appcelerator Titanium: From a developer's perspective

ianhawes·Feb 19, 2011

I can't believe no one has mentioned Appcelerator Titanium yet (http://appcelerator.com). Titanium allows you to create Android applications in JavaScript. Even though its not python, for all the Java haters (and there are plenty) its drastically easier than creating an app in Java. Plus, its significantly faster than using a WebView (a la PhoneGap). With Titanium you get access to all the native controls, maps, audio/video, camera, Facebook, and a _ton_ of other stuff. You can check out their Github profile for more info: http://github.com/appcelerator/titanium_mobile. Beyond the basic UI stuff, Don Thorp and his excellent Android develops have recently added the ability to use Android.R resources, intents, activities, services, notifications, and other advanced API's that you'd be hard pressed to find in an app developed via PhoneGap. N

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ot only is it free, but you can use the same codebase (with some changes) to create an iOS (iPad or iPhone) app. Unlike Mono Droid/Mono Touch, Titanium is 100% free.

In Python, JRuby on the Android Platform in 10 Steps

goatforce5·Apr 10, 2010

I wouldn't be utterly surprised if Apple took Titanium Mobile: http://github.com/appcelerator/titanium_mobile or bought Appcelerator and made a play for it to be the environment to develop mobile apps in. If the future says we'll be able to cross-compile our apps for the 2 or 3 most popular mobile platforms, why not do have people do it on Macs, in Apple's environment, and have the paid apps end up appearing in an Apple controlled app store? (side note: i've mentioned Appcelerator a few times in previous comments. I have no connection to them other than thinking it's a pretty neat product and have been looking forward to diving in to it properly. I'll be annoyed if Apple removes that as an option from me. FWIW, Appcelerator is the reason i've already paid $99 to register as an iPhone developer.)

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