Build native apps for iOS, Android, and Blackberry from a single JavaScript codebase with Appcelerator Titanium. This guide gets you quickly up to speed on this amazing framework and shows you how to generate cross-platform apps with 100% native controls. You’ll also learn the advantages of using Titanium when you want to create an app for just one native platform, rather than struggle with Java or Objective-C. Fast-paced and full of examples, this book helps you build your first project with Titanium Studio, and then takes you through the steps necessary to build complex data-bound apps. Learn how Titanium differs from frameworks such as jQuery Mobile and Sencha Touch Set up and use iOS and Android SDKs and compilers with Titanium Build basic UI and window controls, and create your own composite objects Take a peek at how Titanium objects and methods work behind the scenes Learn how JavaScript makes Titanium easy to extend and customize Develop apps that consume complex data, whether it’s stored locally or on remote servers Understand the pros and cons of distributing apps on the App Store and Android Market

Appcelerator Titanium Application Development by Example Beginner's Guide is an example-driven tour of the language that guides you through all the stages of app design. The style is relaxed and friendly whilst remaining concise and structured.If you are new to this technology or curious about the possibilities of Appcelerator Titanium then this book is for you. If you are a web developer who is looking for a way to craft cross-platform apps, then this book and the Titanium language is the choice for you.

Use Xcode 5 to Write Great iOS and OS X Apps! Xcode 5 Start to Finish will help you use the tools in Apple’s Xcode 5 to improve productivity, write great code, and leverage the newest iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks features. Drawing on thirty years of experience developing for Apple platforms and helping others do so, Fritz Anderson shows you a complete best-practice Xcode workflow. Through three full sample projects, you’ll learn to integrate testing, source control, and other key skills into a high-efficiency process that works. Anderson shows you better ways to storyboard, instrument, build, and compile code, and helps you apply innovations ranging from Quick Look to Preview Assistant. By the time you’re finished, you’ll have the advanced Xcode skills to develop outstanding software. Coverage includes Setting breakpoints and tracing execution for active debugging Creating libraries by adding and building new targets Integrating Git or Subversion version control Creating iOS projects with MVC design Designing Core Data schemas for iOS apps Linking data models to views Designing UI views with Interface Builder Using the improved Xcode 5 Autolayout editor Improving reliability with unit testing Simplifying iOS provisioning Leveraging refactoring and continual error checking Using OS X bindings, bundles, packages, frameworks, and property lists Localizing your apps Controlling how Xcode builds source code into executables Analyzing processor and memory usage with Instruments Integrating with Mavericks Server’s sleek continuous integration system Register your book at www.informit.com/register for access to this title’s downloadable code.

Creating Mobile Apps with Appcelerator Titanium provides a hands-on approach and working examples on creating apps and games as well as embedding them onto a social networking website. Developers can then move on from there to develop their own applications based on the ones they have developed throughout the course of this book."Creating Mobile Apps with Appcelerator Titanium" is for developers who have experience with modern languages and development environments. Also, if you are familiar with the concepts of Object-oriented Programming (OOP), reusable components, AJAX closures, and so on, this book will help you leverage that knowledge in mobile development.This book will also cater to Titanium users who wish to know more about Titanium’s broad range of capabilities and will help you to expand Titanium's basic set of features by using extension modules.

Get to grips with a new technology, understand what it is and what it can do for you, and then get to work with the most important features and tasks. It's a quick start tutorial to help you get started with creating Augmented Reality applications and acquainting yourself with essential aspects of creating AR applications using the Appcelerator Titanium Framework. The instructions are clear with easy to follow examples. This book is for anybody who wishes to understand how to build an Augmented Reality Application. It uses the Appcelerator Titanium mobile development framework, but the techniques and practices can be applied to other frameworks and native code. You will need to have a good working knowledge of development and JavaScript, it is not aimed at the beginner.

Over 100 recipes to help you develop cross-platform, native applications in JavaScript About This Book Leverage your JavaScript skills to write mobile applications using Titanium Studio tools with the native advantage Deploy your application on the App Store and Google Play Add your own IOS native modules in objective-C, in an easy-to-follow step-by-step format Who This Book Is For This book is an essential for any developer learning or using JavaScript who wants to write native UI applications for iOS and Android. No knowledge of Objective-C, Swift and Java is required and you'll quickly be developing native, cross-platform apps, in JavaScript! What You Will Learn Transfer data between applications with URL schemes, and make your application accessible to other mobile applications and services Connect with remote services using JSON Work with Google Maps and Apple Maps, GPS and annotate routes Create animations and special effects Integrate notifications and connect with social media services such as Facebook and Twitter Build applications with Alloy MVC – a rapid application development framework Design native APIs and use local databases In Detail The mobile web has paved the way but many users want to have “native” applications installed. Using Appcelerator as a platform it's now possible to write iOS, Android, and Windows phone applications in JavaScript! It allows developers to develop fully native UI applications using Appcelerator studio tools without any knowledge of Objective-C, Swift or Java. This book will take you through the process of building cross-platform, native UI applications for the mobile from scratch. You will learn how to develop apps, how to use GPS, cameras and photos and how to build socially connected apps. You will also learn how to package them for submission to the App Store and Google Play. This cookbook takes a pragmatic approach to creating applications in JavaScript from putting together basic UIs, to handling events and implementation of third party services such as Twitter, Facebook and Push notifications. The book shows you how to integrate datasources and server APIs, and how to use local databases. The topics covered will guide you to use Appcelerator Studio tools for all the mobile features such as Geolocation, Accelerometer, animation and more. You'll also learn about Alloy, the Appcelerator MVC framework for rapid app development, and how to transfer data between applications using URLSchemes, enabling other developers to access and launch specific parts of your app. Finally, you will learn how to register developer accounts and publish your very own applications on the App Store and Google Play. Style and approach This book offers a set of practical recipes with a step-by-step approach for building native applications for both the iOS and Android using JavaScript. This hands-on guide shows you exactly how to use the Appcelerator platform to rapidly develop cross-platform, native apps.

Use Service Workers to Turbocharge Your Web Apps “You have made an excellent decision in picking up this book. If I was just starting on my learning path to mastery of Progressive Web Apps, there are not many folks I would trust more to get me there than John.” —Simon MacDonald, Developer Advocate, Adobe Software developers have two options for the apps they build: native apps targeting a specific device or web apps that run on any device. Building native apps is challenging, especially when your app targets multiple system types—i.e., desktop computers, smartphones, televisions—because user experience varies dramatically across devices. Service Workers—a relatively new technology—make it easier for web apps to bridge the gap between native and web capabilities. In Learning Progressive Web Apps, author John M. Wargo demonstrates how to use Service Workers to enhance the capabilities of a web app to create Progressive Web Apps (PWA). He focuses on the technologies that enable PWAs and how to use those technologies to enhance your web apps to deliver a more native-like experience. Build web apps a user can easily install on their local system and that work offline or on low-quality networks Utilize caching strategies that give you control over which app resources are cached and when Deliver background processing in a web application Implement push notifications that enable an app to easily engage with users or trigger action from a remote server Throughout the book, Wargo introduces each core concept and illustrates the implementation of each capability through several complete, operational examples. You’ll start with simple web apps, then incrementally expand and extend them with state-of-the-art features. All example source code is available on GitHub, and additional resources are available on the author’s companion site, learningpwa.com. Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.