Appcelerator Titanium: Up and Running

John Anderson always tells people that he feels like computers picked him, and not the other way around. While in grade school he walked into a Radio Shack, got his first look of a TRS-80 and fell in love. From that point on, computers and programming was the main focus in his life. All he could afford was the manual, so that's what he bought and started learning about programming. He has stayed with that model of learning about new technologies by getting a good book and learning about a new topic. He’s been programming computers for about 20 years now, starting as a Customer Support Rep, getting his first programming job and working his way up. When the Internet got popular, he jumped onto that as the Next Big Thing and his career built on that for over 10 years. A couple years ago when a similar phenomenon was happening in Mobile, he again took to the books and started building his own mobile apps and immersing myself in all things mobile. He has apps in Apple's App Store and the Android Marketplace, some of which were done with Titanium.

Chapter 1 The Benefits of Titanium
When to Use Titanium
When Titanium Makes Sense
When Titanium Doesn’t Make Sense
Mobile Landscape
Where’s the GUI?
Death of Xcode and ADK?
Pricing and Support
Chapter 2 Getting Set Up to Use Titanium
Selecting a Development Environment
Setting Up Your Native SDKs
Other Hardware Prerequisites
Chapter 3 Titanium Studio
Features of Titanium Studio
Titanium Studio and Other Text Editors
Chapter 4 A Hello World App
Building Your First App
Writing the App
The Files in Your First Project
Events
Custom Events
Chapter 5 Becoming a Capable Control Freak
Basic UI Controls
Window-Based UI Controls
Creating Your Own Composite Objects
More Uses for Custom Controls
The Main Event
Chapter 6 Titanium Objects
App Object
Window and View Objects
Window and View Layout
View Controllers
Chapter 7 Customizing Titanium
What’s in a Name...Space
Titanium Compatibility Layer (TiCL)
Convenience Functions
Titanium Modules and Their Uses
Using a Titanium Module
Chapter 8 Titanium App Storage
Local File Storage
Database Storage
Chapter 9 Distribution Methods
Apple’s App Store
Android’s Marketplace
Chapter 10 API Reference
Titanium
Titanium.API
Titanium.Accelerometer
Titanium.Analytics
Titanium.Android
Titanium.App
Titanium.Codec
Titanium.Contacts
Titanium.Database
Titanium.Facebook
Titanium.Filesystem
Titanium.Geolocation
Titanium.Gesture
Titanium.Locale
Titanium.Map
Titanium.Media
Titanium.Network
Titanium.Platform
Titanium.Stream
Titanium.UI
Titanium.Utils
Titanium.XML
Titanium.Yahoo
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