The document discusses Titanium, an open source platform for building desktop and mobile applications using web technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It provides an overview of Titanium, how it differs from Adobe AIR, demonstrations of building desktop and mobile applications with Titanium, and resources for learning more. The presentation was given by Chris Barber and covered Titanium's capabilities and APIs for developing cross-platform applications.

1. Titanium Powered Desktop &
Mobile Applications
MinneBar
November 21, 2009
Chris Barber
CB1, INC.
http://www.cb1inc.com

2. About Me
● Chris Barber
● Open source hacker
● Software consultant
● JavaScript, C++, PHP
● Dojo committer
● http://www.cb1inc.com
● http://twitter.com/cb1kenobi
● http://www.slideshare.net/cb1kenobi
MinneBar 2009 | 11.21.2009 | Chris Barber | CB1, INC. | http://www.cb1inc.com

3. Who are you?
Desktop Developers?
Mobile Developers?
Web Developers?
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4. What is Titanium?
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5. What is Titanium?
An open source platform
for building
desktop & mobile
applications using
web technologies
MinneBar 2009 | 11.21.2009 | Chris Barber | CB1, INC. | http://www.cb1inc.com

6. Titanium Background
● Produced by Appcelerator
● Initial Released Dec 2008
● Current version 0.7
● 0.8 landing soon!
● Open Source
● Apache Public License v2
● Made InfoWorld's 2009's Top 10 Emerging
Enterprise Technologies
● http://www.infoworld.com/d/infoworld/2009s-top-10-emerging-enterprise-technologies-467
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7. Components
● Titanium Developer
● Titanium Desktop
● Titanium Mobile
● Appcelerator Network
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8. Building
Desktop Applications
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9. Building Desktop Applications
● Windows
● C/C++, win32, MFC
● .NET Framework: C#, VB.NET
● Mac OS X
● C/C++, Carbon
● Objective C, Cocoa
● GNU/Linux
● C/C++, GTK+, QT, etc
● Cross-platform
● Java, GTK+, QT
● Wine???
MinneBar 2009 | 11.21.2009 | Chris Barber | CB1, INC. | http://www.cb1inc.com

10. Titanium Desktop
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11. Titanium Desktop
Built Using Web Technologies
HTML
CSS
JavaScript
PHP
Ruby
Python
MinneBar 2009 | 11.21.2009 | Chris Barber | CB1, INC. | http://www.cb1inc.com

12. How's It Differ From Adobe AIR?
● No Runtime to Install
● Open Source
● Python
● Ruby
● PHP
● Less Security Restrictions
● Run Processes
● Cross-domain Ajax (AIR v2 fixed)
● Distribution Network
● Built-in Web Server
MinneBar 2009 | 11.21.2009 | Chris Barber | CB1, INC. | http://www.cb1inc.com

13. Lets Build Something!
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14. Titanium Developer
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15. Desktop Demo!
Twin Cities Web Design User Group | 7.15.2009 | Chris Barber | CB1, INC. | http://www.cb1inc.com

16. Desktop API
● API ● Network
● Analytics ● Notification
● App ● PHP
● Blob ● Platform
● Codec ● Process
● Database ● Python
● Desktop ● Ruby
● Filesystem ● UI
● JSON ● UpdateManager
● Media ● Worker
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17. Titanium Mobile
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18. Titanium Mobile
● HTML, CSS, JavaScript
● Don't need to know Objective-C, Java
● iPhone & Android Support
● Palm WebOS Support Soon?
MinneBar 2009 | 11.21.2009 | Chris Barber | CB1, INC. | http://www.cb1inc.com

19. Mobile Demo!
Twin Cities Web Design User Group | 7.15.2009 | Chris Barber | CB1, INC. | http://www.cb1inc.com

20. Mobile API
● API ● Geolocation
● Accelerometer ● Gesture
● Analytics ● Media
● Database ● Network
● Facebook ● Platform
● Filesystem ● UI
● Yahoo
MinneBar 2009 | 11.21.2009 | Chris Barber | CB1, INC. | http://www.cb1inc.com

21. Getting Titanium
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22. Getting Titanium
● Download
● http://www.appcelerator.com/products/download/
● Source Code (git)
● git://github.com/appcelerator/titanium_desktop.git
● git://github.com/appcelerator/kroll.git
● git://github.com/appcelerator/titanium_mobile.git
● git://github.com/appcelerator/titanium_developer.git
● git://github.com/appcelerator/webkit_titanium.git
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23. Resources
Twin Cities Web Design User Group | 7.15.2009 | Chris Barber | CB1, INC. | http://www.cb1inc.com

24. Getting Help
● API Docs
● http://www.codestrong.com/
● Videos
● http://www.vimeo.com/appcelerator
● Blogs
● http://www.appcelerant.com/
● IRC
● #titanium_app on irc.freenode.net
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25. Follow for latest updates!
@appcelerator
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26. Questions?
Twin Cities Web Design User Group | 7.15.2009 | Chris Barber | CB1, INC. | http://www.cb1inc.com