Comments on: Appcelerator Titanium – The Future of Open Souce RIA

By: Srini

Srini — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:42:19 +0000

I have another questions.
can i use the same code base (that I developed for a desktoop app) and build a mobile app (iPhone/Andriod)?. or do I have to develop a seperate code for that is targeted for a mobile platform?

By: Podcycler

Podcycler — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:13:55 +0000

FYI AFAIK You can chose to

1) Have your desktop app executable contain the runtime in your app.

2) Chose to just distribute your bits and have your program check to see if the [required version] runtime is already on the user's machine and download and install if necessary,

If I were distributing my app on DVD or related media, I'd probably throw the runtime on it. If I were distributing my app via the web then I'd give the user the option of just my app or my app+runtime. People that have 3G or other internet access that may have a cap on their montyly usage may appreciate the thin version of my app if they already have other Titanium apps and know they have the runtime.

@podcycler

By: AGuest

AGuest — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:05:05 +0000

I agree a very impressive product…but…

Titanium Desktop Apps (specifically for OSX) seem to rather large. I create a simple .html layout of a single screen and the app was 90MB installed..yikes! Hopefully their mobile compiles are more reasonable and acceptable to their respective app stores.

By: Matthias

Matthias — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:39:21 +0000

What about combining Titanium with Rails? Is it possible? I would hate to go back to building all my html views without my rails form builder, view helpers and so on…

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:24:32 +0000

It doesn't require a plug-in, but from what I heard (and it stands to reason) there is a platform specific layer that is compiled into the executable. As if the AIR or flash plugin was compiled in and delivered in each executable.

Which is an interesting approach. How's the executable size?

By: Subhashini

Subhashini — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:03:27 +0000

Hi Jake,

I am php programmer. I am new to Titanium i don't know where to start I have checked the site appceletor. but still can't a way to start. I am new to Ruby but know js,css,html,ajax,jquery etc. Please let me know the technology to be known to start on with titanium.

By: Jake Rutter

Jake Rutter — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:52:46 +0000

No plugin is required!

By: Stephan

Stephan — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:12:32 +0000

Correct me if I’m wrong…

AIR also requires the user to have a 22mb plug-in pre-installed before using an application? Does Titanium?

By: Jake Rutter

Jake Rutter — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:02:24 +0000

Mukul,

Thanks for pointing that out, I went back and fixed that typo. Have you had a chance to check out Titanium yet? Its pretty awesome!

By: Mukul

Mukul — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:02:06 +0000

Hi Jake, I think it is a little misleading when you say “except that it uses standard, common web languages such as html, css, and javascript.” AIR allows the use of these in addition to Flex/Flash. The fact that it’s proprietary does not change that.