I’ve been using Titanium Developer for a while now, since I installed it to do some mobile app research one or two months ago. But up until now I barely used it again other than to maintain a desktop app I created for a game, which thanks to Titanium runs in both Mac and PC. Thus, up until this week, I hadn’t really get in depth with it.
The good things
Nice, easy and fast. Creating apps is piece of cake, loading JSON feeds from Internet, using local storage, placing buttons and labels on the screen… it’s all easy and it works on both iPhone and Android right away.
The bad things
Titanium Developer looks like an unfinished app. It shouldn’t be version 1.X, not even 0.X. Looks like an alpha, buggy and very easy to get screwed up, specially if you share your projects between Windows and Mac. This time it launches the emulator, this time it does not. This time your project does not load properly. Next time, you try to create a new project and it fails. And the errors are totally useless. Not very helpful.
Conclusion
The idea is great, awesome. The code is clean and using Javascript for development makes it easy for web developers to get easily involved into mobile app development. If only the Appcelerator team could improve their app, we would save a lot of headaches.
Titanium Developer: love and hate
http://dev.enekoalonso.com/2010/07/30/titanium-developer-love-and-hate/ @appcelerator
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