The Appcelerator team has been hard at work over the past few months coding away into the wee hours and today we are incredibly excited to announce the preview release of our new product – Appcelerator Titanium™. Titanium is an open source platform for building applications using standard Web technologies (like HTML, CSS, and javascript) that extends functionality outside the browser and brings next generation applications to the desktop and mobile operating systems.
We’ve created a little video about the vision of Titanium we thought you’d enjoy:
When we say extended functionality we aren’t messing around. Web applications built with the Titanium SDK can support local file access and storage, native integration with the desktop environment, and both online and offline operation. The Titanium SDK is part of the Appcelerator Platform, so you can even leverage Appcelerator’s message-oriented architecture, pre-built integration with all the leading server-side languages and frameworks, and rich set of UI controls, layouts and themes for building desktop apps. Titanium makes coding super easy, because you can use your existing Web development skills to build apps that can be quickly deployed to Windows and Mac desktops (and in Q1 of next year, Linux). With these traits, we believe Titanium will enable a whole new generation of innovative rich desktop and mobile applications.
Now let’s get a little more technical – at the heart of Titanium is an innovative new open source, cross-platform runtime engine that provides application developers with native access to the computer’s desktop or the mobile device via a robust set of APIs. Built on top of WebKit, Gears and Chromium, the Titanium Runtime Engine provides developers with a powerful, free and open platform for building cross-platform applications using standard AJAX.
If you are craving more information, check out the following links:
• Titanium Homepage
• Download
• Demo Applications
• Titanium Screencasts
• FAQ
After you’ve had a chance to download and play around with Titanium, please help us out and post your feedback and suggestions to the Appcelerator community in the new Titanium group, or feel free to email me at jhaynie AT appcelerator DOT com.
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appcelerator installation fails on windows XP:
C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/version.rb:237:in `initialize’: undefined method `collect’ for # (NoMethodError)
from C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/version.rb:29:in `new’
from C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/version.rb:29:in `initialize’
from C:/Program Files/Appcelerator/appcelerator:21:in `new’
from C:/Program Files/Appcelerator/appcelerator:21:in `is_gem_installed’
from C:/Program Files/Appcelerator/appcelerator:27:in `check_required_ge
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from C:/Program Files/Appcelerator/appcelerator:50:in `check_for_initial
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from C:/Program Files/Appcelerator/appcelerator:49:in `each’
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from C:/Program Files/Appcelerator/appcelerator:135:in `run’
from C:/Program Files/Appcelerator/appcelerator:158
I just received an email announcement this morning and then ventured onto the website. Im pretty impressed, I downloaded the SDK and have been messing around with the sample app. Your platform is incredible, I have been looking at Adobe AIR for a few months, but the learning curve has been keeping me from giving it a test run.
I read a book on Flex, but dont really have a huge urge to learn it, since most of my jobs consists of HTML, CSS, and JS development, Im a front-end developer. I really like Titanium because I can use what I already know, and dont have to use a proprietary language such as Flex to do desktop apps. Kudos to you guys for putting this together, Ive already told all my friends and Im excited to see whats to come!
No linux support?
Any plans for including it?
@Jonathan – we’re having a problem with ruby gems and the bundled ruby with the installer it appears. we think we fixed it and pushed another update a little while ago. we were able to reproduce it here on another xp machine… can you let us know if you’re still having the problem after another download?
@DevNull — yes, Linux is being worked on as we speak and we’re hoping to make it available in PR2 in January. we have a big commit around linux today/tomorrow now that the release is out. You can follow development or get source from http://github.com/marshall/titanium/tree/master
@Jake – thanks!! we think so too
It looks great in principle, but on my Vista home machine I’m not sure what I have to run to run the initial command shell.
I tried app.bat and I get :
C:/Program Files/Appcelerator/appcelerator:149:in `exec’: No such file or directory – ruby (Errno::ENOENT)
from C:/Program Files/Appcelerator/appcelerator:149:in `run’
from C:/Program Files/Appcelerator/appcelerator:157
@Jeff Haynie great then! A multiplataform desktop language without virtual machines and huge requeriments!
Hoping to see more and more documentation and examples!
Titanium is awsome!!
But, some problem….
Demo and Build apps not working.
Playtanium and Contact Manager say “This site requires cookies to work properly. Please enable them to continue. Try again” (on OSX).
Tweetanium can not login (on OSX and XP).
Sample build apps not working too. (Only ‘External Links demo’ works.)