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Quick Overview: A Few Moments with Titanium
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Quick Overview: A Few Moments with Titanium

on Apr 5th 2010 with 98 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Technology: JavaSript
  • Tutorial Length: 4 Minutes
  • Topic: iPhone Development

Those of you who follow us on Twitter might know that I’m currently working on an iPhone app for the tutorial sites. However, there’s just one problem: I have no Objective-C experience! Luckily, a service called Appcelerator allows us to build native desktop and mobile (iPhone in my case) apps using the web technologies that we already know, like JavaScript! Before we launch an in-depth two-part series detailing how to create and sell an iPhone app from scratch later this month, I thought I’d give you a basic overview of how it works.


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  • Raffi

    Awesome! Great tutorial, Jeff.

    I’d like to know how you parsed the WordPress feed (XML) with Appcelerator? Looks pretty good on your side! ;-)

  • http://jangha.com Nicolo

    Is now appcelerator banned on the iphone I heard a few rumors regarding The new TOS from Apple and their iPhone 4 OS ?

    anyone ?!?..

    • carlos

      This is my question too. I have looked at the Appcelerator site and they still don’t have clarification. If Appcelerator is banned under this provision, a lot of us are screwed on this.
      I will stick with Android and we should just start developing for Android instead. Make an application tutorial for Android rather than iPhone because if Appcelerator is banned under this provision then S.O.L.

      I am all about using Apples for my computer, but man, they really kicked some of their customer base and developers with this. I would really like to see the Appcelerator tutorial, but maybe gear it towards the Android.

      What are you thoughts Jeffery?????

  • carlos

    When are the tutorials for this coming out? I am just getting into this and this series would help out tremendously.

    Thanks,

  • http://jacobwiley.com Jacob

    Jeffrey, cant wait for this series.

    Nicolo and Carlos, I attended an Appcelerator workshop this weekend. Appcelerator is good to go (at least for now). The end result is a fully native app utilizing fully native Objective C. As far as Apple is concerned, your developing in Objective C. Their product simply allows you to use some predefined javascript classes that then get translated into Objective C.

    • http://www.jeffrey-way.com Jeffrey Way
      Author

      Jacob – Curious if you guys looked at the Tuts app during the workshop. They said they might use it.

  • http://www.madeofwin.de Ben

    I just started reading and watching some stuff about appcelerator and as I’d like to use it for android developing, an appcelerator tutorial about android dev would be very cool!

  • Lawrence

    It actually is looking like Titanium is NOT banned by the new apple dev agreement. It’s still a bit confusing but because of the way Titanium compiles its code into Obj-C it should be fine, same goes for Unity 3D which had already been responsible for several top selling/downloaded games for the iPhone.

    So, hopefully Appcelerator will officially make a statement in regards to this soon.

  • http://justsimplycreative.com/ Josh

    Jeffery,
    Does that mean that there is a chance that this app you are working on, could end up on Android? The large group of developers, 3rd parties I work with and friends who use NetTuts (and PSDTuts) all have Android devices. That would be outstanding. Huge interest in an Android app!

  • Hidde

    Can you please do an tutorial on this? Thanks!

  • http://joacim-boive.com Joacim Boive

    Hi there Jeffrey!

    Great work! (As usual)

    How’s those tuts coming? It’s June now and I were kinda a expecting something by now.

    Have you run into problems with Titanium? I think we would like to here that too!

    Take care!

    /J

  • http://www.interactivacorp.com @javichitone

    I found this interesting Appcelerator workshop from Stanford University, hope you like it.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RplTiVaxx7s

  • http://danielpaul.me Daniel Paul

    Thanks! Very useful! You have inspired me to create my own iphone app…

  • http://www.hamzaoza.com Hamza Oza

    Jeff, do you know if and when this series maybe launched because it has been some time since you mentioned it.

  • Korky

    Jeff! Where are the follow-up tutorials?

    I think this was a nice tease, but I could see at least a 6-8 part dig in!

    Please think about it. The tuts on MobileTuts are ok, but there’s a bit of a gap between this peek you did here and the tutorials that are available over there.

    Help us out!

  • macCesar

    Last week I started working with Appcelerator and I think it is great… And now that a lot of Apps made with Appcelerator have been accepted by Apple, I think it is a great alternative to Xcode.

    So I have the same question as Korky. “Where are the follow-up tutorials?”

    Thanks!!!!

  • http://fromlimbo.tumblr.com/ Shaan

    Just a few days back I was tweeting to you (@jeffrey way) about making a tutorial on making a web app or website with titanium studio. And voila here it is, and I know this for sure you haven’t seen my tweet. Well, as always you have again presented us with another great tut. Thanks a lot Jeff for this tut, I was looking for a titanium tut from you..cheers mate….

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