Build Native Mobile Applications with Titanium

Build Native Mobile Applications with Titanium enables you to create cross-platform native mobile apps from a single code-base using JavaScript. Titanium's JavaScript Software Development Kit (SDK) enables web developers to cross-over to native mobile development using familiar JavaScript – without the Objective-C or Java learning curve.

The book teaches you to use the Titanium Studio development environment in order to create scalable native mobile apps, hybrid and HTML5 apps that run on iOS, Android, Blackberry and Tizen platforms. You will start from creating a front end for your app and create the app framework including event-based transitions and animations. The book also goes into detail on how to connect your app with external data sources, enabling you to pull in REST data or web services such as Drupal. The book also shows you how to leverage the Appcelerator Cloud Services and the phone's native device APIs, so your app can make use of the phone camera, calendar, messaging service, and much more. Build Native Mobile Applications with Titanium takes you all the way from building the first screens of your app, to distributing your app on the native device store and getting it in front of millions of customers.

• Learn how to build native mobile applications by leveraging existing knowledge of JavaScript

• Learn to develop applications for multiple devices using a single codebase.

• Implement external services such as REST, Cloud and APIs to extend mobile applications

• Work with native APIs such as the camera, contacts, location and filesystem

Part 1: Introduction

1. What is Appcelerator?

2. Getting Up and Running with Studio

Part 2: Basic User Interface Components

3. Working with Windows and Views

4. Basic UI Components

5. Event Handling

6. Creating an Email Dialog

Part 3: Working with Media

7. Advanced Image Handling

8. Streaming Media

Part 4: Working with Data Views

9. Data Handling with Table Views and List Views

10. Working with Form Elements

Part 5: Handling External Sources

11. Working with Web Views

12. Working with REST Services

13. Dynamic Data with Table Views

14. Persistence, Variables, and App Properties

15. Working with Local Data

Part 6: Cloud Services and APIs

16. Appcelerator Cloud Services (ACS)

17. Integrating ACS Social APIs

18. Working with Map Views

19. Working with Native APIs

Part 7: App Distribution and Management

20. Testing and Deploying Your App

• Complete guide to the Titanium development platform
• Works through the entire app lifecycle from design to deployment
• Shows how to use Appcelerator Cloud Services for enhanced app features.