1. NYC Titanium User’s Group
NYC Titanium User’s Group
August 27th, 2013
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TOPICS
Organizer announcements
Feature: Dive into Node.ACS - Ricardo Alcocer
Lightning talks, announcements, call for assistance,etc.
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2. NYC Titanium User’s Group
Titanium News and Meetup Tidbits
Titanium News (Lots!)
Appcelerator website is under heavy changes as they
separate the Appcelerator platform and services from the
Titanium platform.
‣ http://my.appcelerator.com/apps to get access to your online
application dashboard
Appcelerator has acquired Singly.
‣ Singly provides a ‘normalized’API for accessing a large number
of other APIs providing services and data.
‣ Integration into Appcelerator is expected ‘early’ next year.
Titanium SDK 3.1.2 GA released
‣ BlackBerry GA with support for BlackBerry 10.0.9.x NDK
‣ Android 4.3 (Jellybean) support
‣ Android windows are now heavyweight by default and support
enter and exit animations.
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Since July meetup
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3. NYC Titanium User’s Group
Titanium News and Meetup Tidbits
Titanium News (cont.)
Titanium SDK 3.1.2 GA released
‣ Android now defaults to using GCM for push notifications
rather than the former MQTT protocol.
‣ Support for iOS7 Beta 5 and Xcode 5 developer preview
(requires Mac OS 10.8.4 - Mountain Lion).
‣ Appcelerator is hosting a webinar: ‘Three Rules for iOS7
Readiness’ on 8/29 at 1pm EDT.
• Over 1500 new APIs makes this the most ambitious iOS upgrade since
its initial launch.
Alloy 1.2.0 released
‣ Dynamic styling
‣ ListView objects via markup, and with data binding enabled
‣ Native module views can be added to a project using the
<Module> tag
‣ Support forTizen platform.
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4. NYC Titanium User’s Group
Titanium News and Meetup Tidbits
Titanium News (cont.)
Appcelerator Cloud Services (ACS)
‣ Appcelerator is deprecating Android MQTT push notification
in favor of Google Cloud Messaging (GCM). MQTT is still
supported in 3.1.2 but will be discontinued later in 2013.
‣ Performance and scalability improvements including
asynchronous logging.
Node.ACS
‣ Application auto scaling feature.
‣ Performance and scalability improvements including moving
projects storage from DB to S3.
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5. NYC Titanium User’s Group
Titanium News and Meetup Tidbits
Titanium News (cont.)
Appcelerator Platform
‣ Appcelerator Studio LiveView feature is now GA (video)
‣ Application Dashboard provides managed organizations
• Users belong to organizations.An organization is a group of people
working for the same entity – typically the members of a company or
some subset of a company.
• Organization members can create new applications in Appcelerator
Studio.These applications belong to the organization the user
designated during the app creation process.
• Organization admins can create apps, invite users to join the
organization, and assign organization members to application teams.
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6. NYC Titanium User’s Group
Titanium News and Meetup Tidbits
Titanium News (cont.)
tiConf AU was held in Melbourne,Australia on 8/20
‣ Keynote
• Jeff Haynie
• Video: http://bit.ly/19X7Lyw
• Slides: http://slidesha.re/19X7GL5
‣ Native Mobile Development at the Speed of Web
• David Bankier
• Slides: http://slidesha.re/19X7xHN
‣ Easier Android Development
• Jeff Bonnes
• Slides: http://slidesha.re/19X76x1
‣ Tips & Tricks Marketing and Developing Apps
• Raef Akehurst & David Sullivan
• Slides: http://slidesha.re/19X7mMn
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7. NYC Titanium User’s Group
Titanium News and Meetup Tidbits
Meetup Tidbits
Our next meetup will be on September 24th, with Jason
Kneen providing a presentation on using AlloyTSS styles,
the new Alloy dynamic styles and about Jason’s Dynamic
TSS Widget.
Looking for presenters and topics for future meetings.
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8. NYC Titanium User’s Group
Dive into Node.ACS
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Ricardo is currently a Lead Developer Evangelist for Appcelerator.
Ricardo has founded or co-founded several companies and has
over 18 years experience in the software development industry,
focusing on Internet and Mobile technologies. He has developed
for the desktop, the web and for the iOS and Android mobile
platforms and has managed software startups and software (web
and mobile) development teams. He loves evangelizing
technology and speaking to both technical and non-technical
audiences.
Node.ACS extends Appcelerator Cloud Services by providing the popular Node.JS development framework on the
middle-tier. Using Node.ACS, you can implement and deploy server services using JavaScript on the Appcelerator
Cloud. You can develop connectors to enterprise data back-ends like Oracle or Salesforce for your entire mobile app
portfolio, extend the functionality of prebuilt services provided by Appcelerator Cloud Services (ACS) or simply use any
of the 1000’s Node.JS modules published by the developer community.
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Contact Info
NYC Titanium User’s Group
John Oliva
Organizer for NYCTitanium User’s Group
e-mail: joliva63@gmail.com
cell: (908) 812-3667
twitter: @joliva
linkedin: http://bit.ly/joliva63
website: http://olivalabs.com
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