Appcelerator Titanium is one of the 3 cross-platform mobile frameworks (the other 2 are Rhodes and PhoneGap). Similar to PhoneGap, it exposes devices capabilites through Javascript and you write your app using HTML, CSS and of course, Javascript. What really sets Titanium apart is its user interface API: you can use Javascript to create table views or other specific user interface controls. This leads to the best replication of the native look & feel.
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Starting with Titanium and Android
Microsoft on the verge of releasing Windows Mobile version 2.0
OK… sorry about the inflammatory title, but it really does feel like MS has been coasting since it came out with its first mobile software release. I’ve used Windows Mobile on two Dell Axim revs and two cellphones. Instead of feeling like each new OS revision was an upgrade, it just felt like the same thing with a few more applications included and a few more options in settings. Before that I went through almost every model of the Apple Newton… at least with Newton, each OS update and device update felt like a significant improvement.
Windows Mobile currently has the worst browser in any shipping operating system and made development for mobile web sites or multiplatform mobile development (Rhomobile) very difficult. I’ve had countless customers tell me “no one uses” Windows Mobile so they didn’t want to target it. Lots of people use Windows Mobile every day, but the fact
Is Apple looking into licensing the iPhone OS?
Could Apple bet on the App Store revenues and licensing revenues and give away the iPhone OS to third parties?
Will we ever see a Motorola or HTC built phone running the iPhone OS? Will we ever see inexpensive chinese phones running it?… Let’s see what that would mean to Apple.
iPad influencing the tablet market
My first thought on seeing this image today was “wow… Steve Jobs looks really small now behind his big iPhone”. Fortunately, this isn’t a case of Steve shrinking, it’s the mobile computer that got bigger.
I believe there is a lot of potential for the Apple tablet and I’m excited to write software for it. I was a little bit disappointed with the realization that it is also a closed device…
Mobile Apps cross-platform development challenge: PhoneGap vs. Titanium vs. Rhodes
What is the best cross-platform mobile framework out there?
Let’s take a look at the main three competitors.
First of all, cross-platform compatibility is all about compromising on the native look, feel and features of devices. Therefore, if you’re looking into creating a 3D game or an interactive, multimedia, animated app, you’re looking in the wrong direction.
PhoneGap, Titanium and Rhodes are all based on web technologies and are aimed at web developers that want to leverage their current skills set to the mobile apps world.
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Google Nexus One: what Motorola Droid should have been
Jason Chen of Gizmodo tried the Google Nexus One thanks to an anonymous source. As a result, new photos and a hands-on video surfaced.
Chen said “You can call the design the antithesis of the Droid: smooth, curved, and light, instead of hard, square and pointy,” he said. “It feels long and silky and natural in your hand — even more so than the iPhone 3GS.”
Google “Nexus One” Android 2.1 Phone coming January 5, 2010
Two versions of Google phone were planned, Reuters reported, one to be subsidized through T-Mobile by contract and one unlocked version sold through Google’s website.
The new Android based and Google branded phone could be launched as early as January 5, 2010.
The phone will run Android 2.1…
iPod Touch growth silently builds a consumer base for future iPhone revisions.
“The highly publicized launch of Droid last month marked a major effort by Google, Verizon and Motorola to slow the iPhone’s growing power in the marketplace. And while the Android platform is the most legitimate challenger to iPhone smartphone dominance, it’s important to remember that the iPhone’s flank is protected by an often overlooked, powerful fighting brand: iPod Touch. According to Apple, 58 million iPhone OS devices have been sold worldwide through September 2009. Of those, Flurry estimates that just over 40%, around 24 million are iPod Touch devices.”
iPhone OS vs. Android: Apple’s success vs. Google’s failure?
I just completed reading a 3 pages article on AppleInsider and this gave me a different perspective on Android. Prince McLean thinks Google created Android as a Windows Mobile killer to safeguard its own advertising and search market, not to compete with the iPhone. And he has some evidence you should check out.
Some of the things I’ve learned I could not believe. But I do trust the source. If you have the time, check out the original. But if you’re more in a rush, here is a summary for you.
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