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Titanium: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Posted in Javascript on January 5th, 2012 by Philippe – 7 Comments

I’ve been following Appcelerator Titanium Mobile with a keen interest since they decided, for mobile, to move from HTML to native UIs. I just love this idea: use the platform’s native UI controls from Javascript. I did have a fairly good experience doing a little test app with Titanium Mobile 1.5 and noted for myself to use it for real when I’ll have a project.

More recently Appcelerator bought Aptana, the arguably most advanced Eclipse plugin for Javascript (and HTML) development, and renamed it TitaniumStudio. Honestly I dislike Eclipse very much but I thought it was a great move to gain the professional developers’ hearts.

Since I had a new occasion to do a mobile app I thought I was time to get up to date by giving Titanium 1.8 another run.

This was a “mixed” experience, but my conclusion is quite positive!

Updated 27/02/12 (see end of the article)

Warning: MacOS stuff ahead ;)

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