Appcelerator Titanium Workshop

Bring your laptop! Use your JavaScript skills to build native iOS and Android apps! Learn from an Appcelerator Titan!

This is a full day workshop specifically designed to get you up and running with Titanium and build feature-rich applications! We'll install the latest Titanium Developer and iOS SDK - then create a project in Titanium Developer and run it in the simulator to verify your setup. Basic JavaScript experience is necessary for this session; please complete a basic JavaScript course or book before attending.

Titanium is an open-source development tool for producing cross-platform mobile applications by Appcelerator. Using Titanium, you develop your mobile application using Javascript coded against the Titanium API's. Titanium Studio, an IDE for your mobile apps, invokes their compiler and builder to take your Javascript and build a native application for iOS and Android.

This is a full day workshop intended to teach you the basics of Titanium. We'll work on several exercises as you build up a complete, feature-rich, mobile application that you can deploy on either Android or iOS. Topics we'll cover in this workshop:

• Titanium quickstart
• Titanium architecture and build process
• Titanium API's
  UI elements: Lists, Labels, Windows, Views, Buttons, etc
  Navigation
  Tabs
  Databases
  ** Network operations
• How to manage app upgrades
• Connecting to social media sites
• Debugging Titanium Applications
• Best Practices
• Turbo charging with Coffeescript
• Building maintainable code with platform specific plugins

About Pratik Patel

Pratik Patel is a Java Champion and developer advocate at Azul Systems and has written 3 books on programming (Java, Cloud and OSS). An all around software and hardware nerd with experience in the healthcare, telecom, financial services, and startup sectors. He's also a co-organizer of the Atlanta Java User Group and North Atlanta JavaScript meetup, frequent speaker at tech events, and master builder of nachos.

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