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Mobile Technology

Mobile Technology –

           In Mobile development, the most common issue that we were facing was the platform dependency. An application developed for iOS will not be compatible with Android device and vice versa. There are many open source community that has come up with a solution to solve this compatibility issue, one of that is Titanium Framework.

What is Titanium?

           Titanium is an open source framework developed by Appcelerator. Aim of this framework is to provide an extensible development environment for creating native application across platforms and devices. With the help of this framework, we can write single code base which is platform independent. It comes with powerful SDK which is built on top eclipse IDE.

Appcelerator Titanium is cross platform Java script runtime and API framework which takes code written in Java script. This Java script code can be combined with the Titanium APIs which is written in the targeted device native language. Titanium offers inbuilt native UI controls and animation instead of writing separate code thru CSS or Java scripts.

Pros –

•   Wider range of APIs, UIs and device specific features
• Provides an automated way of packaging and distribution.
• Same UI interface and components for any mobile operating system which is not available in any other hybrid frameworks.
• Develop any mobile application using the knowledge of Java script.
• Create any visual features by extending Titanium APIs.

Cons –

• Less support
• Cannot support all the native APIs and all the device features.
• Major support available only for iOS  and Android

What’s New?

Alloy for Titanium – An open source MVC framework for building mobile apps. 

                Aim of this framework is to enable more maintainability and reusability. This separates the layout, style, design and the business logic. Designers can focus on the layout / design using XML while developers can focus on the business logic using Java scripts. This Java scripts can be reusable widgets or components which can be reused across mobile applications.

Architecture –

Features –

• MVC framework built on node.js
• XML for the design and Java script for business components.
• Integrate with Titanium Studio.
• Reusable widget.
• Alloy CSS and UI themes.
• Support for backbone.js and underscore.js

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