Essentials of Javascript - Cultural View

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Appcelerator Titanium 57 Appcelerator Titanium Developer(s) Appcelerator, Inc. Stable release 1.3 / 14 May 2010 Operating system iPhone, Android, Mac OS, Windows, Linux Type Application framework License Apache Public License v2 Website www.appcelerator.com [1] Appcelerator Titanium is a platform for developing mobile and desktop applications using web technologies. Appcelerator Titanium is developed by Appcelerator Inc. and was introduced in December 2008 [2] . Support for developing iPhone- and Android-based mobile applications was added in June 2009 [3] . Support for developing iPad-based tablet apps was added in April 2010 [4] . Appcelerator Titanium is one of several phone web based application framework solutions allowing web developers to apply existing skills to create native applications for iPhone and Android. Appcelerator Titanium is frequently compared to Adobe Air for developing desktop applications for Windows, Mac and Linux. [5] Traditionally, proprietary tools and specialized skills are required to develop native software applications for each computing platform [6] . Appcelerator Titanium includes a web-based, cross-compilation tool which requires internet access and a developer account. The tool can deploy standalone applications for Mac, Windows, and Linux from any of those platforms. It does this by submitting the source files to a proprietary server-side solution which then returns the binaries. An open source command-line compiler is also available which is not subject to the same network and account requirements, but it does not cross-compile. Mobile compilation is subject to additional requirements: iPhone builds require Mac OS X and the iPhone SDK, and Android builds require the Android SDK and Mac, Windows, or Linux. The latest version of Appcelerator Titanium's cross-compiler was built using itself. In April 2010 Appcelerator expanded the Titanium product line with the Titanium Tablet SDK [4] . The Titanium Tablet SDK draws heavily from the existing support for iPhone but also includes native support for iPad-only user interface controls such as split views and popovers. Initially the Tablet SDK supports only Apple's iPad. Appcelerator, Inc. also offers cloud-based services for packaging, testing and distributing software applications developed on the Titanium platform [7] . Features The core features of Appcelerator Titanium include [6] : • Support for standards-based web technologies: HTML, CSS and Javascript on all platforms along with PHP, Python and Ruby for desktop platforms • Integrated support for popular JavaScript and AJAX Frameworks including jQuery, YUI, MooTools, Scriptaculous and others. • A platform-independent API to access native UI components including navigation bars, menus, dialog boxes and alerts, and native device functionality including the file system, sound, network and local database • API access to native mobile functionality like geolocation, accelerometer and maps • Extensibility through open interfaces and licensing, allowing developers to introduce support for additional scripting languages, media codecs and device-specific functionality • Available under the Apache Public License v2.0 open source software license

Appcelerator Titanium 58 See also • List of rich internet application frameworks External links • Appcelerator Web site [1] • Appcelerator Titanium tutorials [8] References [1] http://www.appcelerator.com [2] "Appcelerator Raises $4.1 Million for Open Source RIA Platform" (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/09/ appcelerator-raises-41-million-for-open-source-ria-platform/). Techcrunch. 9 December 2008. . Retrieved 29 October 2009. [3] "Appcelerator enables iPhone, Android app dev" (http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/ appcelerator-enables-iphone-android-app-dev-655). InfoWorld. 8 June 2009. . Retrieved 29 October 2009. [4] "Appcelerator Simplifies iPad App Development" (http://mashable.com/2010/04/05/titanium-tablet-sdk/). 5 April 2010. . Retrieved 6 April 2010. [5] "Appcelerator Takes On Adobe AIR with Titanium" (http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/ Appcelerator-Takes-on-Adobe-AIR-with-Titanium/). eWeek. 9 December 2008. . Retrieved 29 October 2009. [6] "Titanium gets hardened with new beta" (http://ajaxian.com/archives/ titanium-gets-hardened-with-new-beta-that-features-mobile-and-more). Ajaxian. 9 June 2009. . Retrieved 29 October 2009. [7] "Appcelerator Network Cloud Services" (http://www.appcelerator.com/products/cloud-services/). Appcelerator, Inc.. . Retrieved 29 October 2009. [8] http://www.sergemeunier.com/blog/titanium-tutorials/ AppengineJS AppengineJS is a framework for creating web applications using JavaScript and deploy to Google's scalable infrastructure. AppengineJS is open source software licensed under the liberal MIT license. External links Official website [1] References [1] http://www.appenginejs.org

Appcelerator Titanium 58<br />

See also<br />

• List <strong>of</strong> rich internet application frameworks<br />

External links<br />

• Appcelerator Web site [1]<br />

• Appcelerator Titanium tutorials [8]<br />

References<br />

[1] http://www.appcelerator.com<br />

[2] "Appcelerator Raises $4.1 Million for Open Source RIA Platform" (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/09/<br />

appcelerator-raises-41-million-for-open-source-ria-platform/). Techcrunch. 9 December 2008. . Retrieved 29 October 2009.<br />

[3] "Appcelerator enables iPhone, Android app dev" (http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/<br />

appcelerator-enables-iphone-android-app-dev-655). InfoWorld. 8 June 2009. . Retrieved 29 October 2009.<br />

[4] "Appcelerator Simplifies iPad App Development" (http://mashable.com/2010/04/05/titanium-tablet-sdk/). 5 April 2010. . Retrieved 6<br />

April 2010.<br />

[5] "Appcelerator Takes On Adobe AIR with Titanium" (http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/<br />

Appcelerator-Takes-on-Adobe-AIR-with-Titanium/). eWeek. 9 December 2008. . Retrieved 29 October 2009.<br />

[6] "Titanium gets hardened with new beta" (http://ajaxian.com/archives/<br />

titanium-gets-hardened-with-new-beta-that-features-mobile-and-more). Ajaxian. 9 June 2009. . Retrieved 29 October 2009.<br />

[7] "Appcelerator Network Cloud Services" (http://www.appcelerator.com/products/cloud-services/). Appcelerator, Inc.. . Retrieved 29<br />

October 2009.<br />

[8] http://www.sergemeunier.com/blog/titanium-tutorials/<br />

AppengineJS<br />

AppengineJS is a framework for creating web applications using JavaScript and deploy to Google's scalable<br />

infrastructure.<br />

AppengineJS is open source s<strong>of</strong>tware licensed under the liberal MIT license.<br />

External links<br />

Official website [1]<br />

References<br />

[1] http://www.appenginejs.org

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