Titanium SDK
New article name is Appcelerator Titanium
Appcelerator Titanium, an open source platform for developing mobile and desktop applications using web technologies. Appcelerator Titanium is developed by Appcelerator Inc. and was introduced in December 2008 (techcrunch). Support for developing iPhone- and Android-based mobile applications was added in June 2009 (infoworld)
Appcelerator is one of several vendors empowering web developers to apply their skills to create native applications for iPhone and Android as well as Windows, Mac and Linux.(1-wikipedia web phone platforms) Traditionally, proprietary tools and specialized skills are required to develop native software applications for each computing platform. (2-wikipedia-system software)
The company also offers cloud-based services for packaging, testing and distributing software applications developed on the Titanium platform. (3-appcelerator cloud services).
Features
Appcelerator promotes an open, vendor-independent approach to enabling development of native applications with the following Titanium features (Appcelerator-products, Ajaxian):
• Embraces standards-based web technologies: HTML, CSS and Javascript on all platforms along with PHP, Python and Ruby for desktop platforms • Provides a platform-independent API to access UI components including navigation bars, menus, dialog boxes and alerts, and native device functionality including the file system, sound, network and local database. • Includes API support for mobile functionality like geolocation, accelerometer and maps. • Enables extensibility through open interfaces and licensing allowing developers to introduce support for additional scripting languages and device-specific functionality • Available under the Apache 2.0 Open source software license
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