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From the Appcelerator Engine Room: Engineering Update

Posted by on May 16, 2012 in @en | Comments Comments Off

It’s been a couple of months since my last update and I’m happy to announce that we delivered our 2.0 release on schedule. This was a significant release and there are a number of things you should be aware of as developers: A new layout engine that minimizes cross-platform discrepancies: if you are using absolute positioning in your app and are updating to 2.0 then you need to read this. You basically need to excise almost all uses of...

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Mobilize Your MongoDB! (Part One)

Posted by on May 16, 2012 in @en | Comments Comments Off

Editor’s Note: Reposted with permission from the OpenShift developer blog, and author Grant Shipley. Summary: This is the first part of a blog series that details how to develop a mobile application that is backed by MongoDB and a PaaS.  MongoDB makes a great companion to this mobile application given its ability to shard and the nature of being able to store JSON documents with little data manipulation required.  In...

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Titanium Command Line Interface (CLI) Specification

Posted by on May 14, 2012 in @en | Comments Comments Off

We have a suite of existing tools for operating from the command line - titanium.py, builder.py, etc. Some of these tools are used for direct user interaction to create, run, package, or distribute projects (titanium.py) while others are designed for meaningful interactions only with an IDE such as Titanium Studio. Over time, the scope and requirements for these tools have increased significantly so we have decided to evaluate the the...

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Comparing Titanium and PhoneGap

Posted by on May 13, 2012 in @en | Comments Comments Off

Original article can be found here. A common question I get asked at developer events and conferences is how Titanium compares to PhoneGap. I thought I would take some time to explain how each technology works at a high level, and assess how the two technologies compare to one another. From 10,000 feet, PhoneGap and Titanium appear to be similar. They both provide tools for cross-platform mobile development. Both also require the use of...

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Native BlackBerry 10 Support Coming To Titanium

Posted by on May 1, 2012 in @en | Comments Comments Off

Earlier today, Fearless Leader announced Appcelerator’s plans to support native application development for the BlackBerry 10.  Work is already underway to implement the Titanium JavaScript API on BlackBerry 10 devices using BlackBerry’s NDK. Unlike previous versions of the BlackBerry OS, development tools will be available for Mac, Linux, and Windows users.  In a few hours, I will be demoing a very early version of this...

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Launch Day Event Schedule and Webinar Links

Posted by on Apr 18, 2012 in @en | Comments Comments Off

2.0 has launched, and Titanium developers are starting to play around with the new features in this release. We’d like to invite you once again to join us for some online events, coordinated with several of our live developer meetups. Welcome to Titanium 2.0! Thursday, April 19, 9am PST Register for the webinar! In this session, Appcelerator CTO Nolan Wright, Product Manager Jo Ann Bucker, and Platform Evangelist Kevin Whinnery will...

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