The world has become a global village and technology has a role to
play in the lives of each one of us. Even mobile has not been spared by
the technology boom. The age in which we are living in belongs to mobile
and thus it becomes imperative to have wide array of mobile
applications that make our living easier and convenient. What a
bonanza!!! if we may customize those mobile applications as per our
will.
After the invention of platforms like Android, iOS, Blackberry OS and
more, mobile industry has taken a giant leap. Before the invention of
these mobile platforms, mobile industry was heavily tilted towards
handsets. Then came the mobile applications, that literally swept the
attention away from handsets. Also, with the penetration of gadgets like
iphone, ipads and Andorid phones the demand for mobile applications has
rocketed towards the sky.
Appcelerator Titanium- Typically known as the platform for developing
mobile, desktop and tablet applications. The platform uses web
technologies for developing the applications. Initially it was designed
to develop Android and iPhone applications but in matter of few months
the platform was also used for developing desktop and tablet
applications as well.
Being one of the phone web based application framework, it uses
JavaScript syntax yet the developers are still required to learn
Titanium API. The application developers apply their skills to create
traditional or customized applications.
Highlighting features of Appcelerator Titanium
- Open Source Platform.
- Enables development of native mobile, tablet and desktop applications using HTML, Java Script, Python and etc.
- Provides developers access to over 30,000 APIs to facilitate application development.
- Provides 100 customized high performing UIs for native tables, dialogs, buttons and more.
Benefits of Appcelerator Titanium
- Cross platform distribution makes launching of support scripting languages easier.
- Being open source platform; is quite cost effective.
- Assists companies and individual developers to formulate long term mobile development strategy.
- Access to source code any time for whole application.
- Provides cloud based services for packing, distribution and analyzing applications over Appcelerator Titanium.
- Gives access to write both mobile applications and mobile websites.
- In built apps for further development of different apps.
Appcelerator Titanium, being an open source software is available for download, free of cost. Thus, this can be used for cost effective mobile apps development.
Due to availability of numerous built in apps for use, people can
easily develop applications across many platforms at really low cost
using their own development team. Also, there are exclusive reseller
programs provided by Appcelerator for revenue growth and other monetary
benefits.
Appcelerator has host of investors who provide funding and meet other
financial requirements of the company. Some of the financial partners
are E bay, Sierra Ventures, Red hat Inc. and so on. The developers are
also provided and given the advantage of selling their high quality
mobile applications so that their applications reach wider customer base
and they can earn revenue out of it.
Though there are host of companies in the market that develop mobile
applications using Appcelerator Titanium but it takes more than just
knowing how to develop an application. It takes highly skilled
developers and experience to develop a robust mobile application.
Considering the present growth and usage, the demand of Appcelerator Titanium would certainly increase in coming time.
