Appcelerator CTO Nolan Wright will be co-hosting a webinar with Zeon, covering the business case for developing apps with Titanium. Via Zeon: Many organizations are building mobile applications to extend the functionality of their current systems to their partners and customers. Mobile applications are becoming an essential tool for business. During this webinar, you will learn how to provide enhanced customer self-service and deliver...
Read MoreNewbie Tuesday: Hybrid App Basics Part 1
The following is the latest entry in a series of Tuesday blog posts covering basic topics in Titanium and JavaScript development. Titanium allows developers to use local HTML inside a WebView component. There are a variety of compelling use cases for this, in situations where the browser provides the best tools for a given job. Whether it’s badass canvas libraries like three.js, as seen in the “Twisti” series on Forging...
Read MoreSubmit your app: “Built With Titanium”
A new community site has sprung up dedicated to showcasing the 30,000+ apps built with Titanium! Sharry Stowell (of Learning Titanium) has posted this new community site where developers can add their applications to a categorized showcase. To submit your application, tweet a link to your app in the store/market where it resides to TiBuilt. Sharry will process it and bring it into the fold, and your app skills will be on display for all...
Read MoreXcode 4.3 and Titanium
Apple has recently released Xcode 4.3, which some developers have already started adopting. Please note that per our compatibility matrix here, Xcode 4.2 is the latest Xcode version that can work with Titanium. We are working to add Xcode 4.3 support as soon as we can. An unsupported and untested workaround can be found on the Q&A here, but your mileage will vary. Please refrain from upgrading your Xcode tools to version 4.3 until...
Read MoreFeatured Developer – Ben Bahrenburg
Editor’s note: Sharry Stowell is the editor of Learning Titanium, where he frequently comments on the latest contributions of the Titanium community. Over the previous few months I’ve noticed a few developers in the Titanium community shine brighter and brighter. They’ve helped out on the Q&A forum, answered questions over IRC, shared the latest Titanium news and even created modules for the Appcelerator MarketPlace...
Read MoreWin up to $5K hacking Titanium apps with Box
Titanium developers have a great opportunity to score up to $5000 cash money in two developer challenges, sponsored by Box. The first is a challenge open only to Titanium developers, offering up to $1250 in prize money for the best Titanium apps making use of the new, open source Box CommonJS module. Sign up here for the Titanium-only Box developer contest. Box is also putting out a call for the best iPad application – native or...
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