Appcelerator releases Titanium Studio and updates Mobile SDK 1.7
Appcelerator is a great tool that allows web developers to create native applications for multiple mobile and desktop platforms. Recently they released their latest Mobile SDK, and best of all, they have now released a completely new IDE for creating mobile and desktop applications.
The new IDE is based on Aptana Studio IDE, which itself is based on Eclipse. Earlier this year, Appcelerator acquired Aptana, with the aim to create a version of their IDE suited for use with their SDK. Before this Appcelerator lacked an IDE for SDK, and included only a project manager, built using their own SDK, that could be used to create the boilerplate of any project.
Appcelerator’s Titanium SDK allows developers to code their applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and supports the latest web standards. In addition Titanium applications can also include code written in Ruby, Python or PHP even embedded within their HTML files. Since Aptana can work with all of these programming languages, it is good fit as an IDE.
The newly released Titanium Studio adds numerous useful features for Titanium developers. First of all since it is an IDE, features such as project management, syntax highlighting, and many other features available in Eclipse, come by default. What Titanium adds to the mix is code completion support for the Titanium SDK features, testing on device simulators, packaging applications for mobile and desktop, and an auto-updater for the Titanium SDK.
The new features of the Titanium Mobile SDK 1.7 are (as mentioned in the release):
- Fastdev for Android speeds prototyping and testing by enabling local changes to become instantly available to your application while the simulator is running. This eliminates the time-consuming steps of packaging, building and deploying apps for each change.
- New cross platform APIs for TCP/IP networking: Sockets and Streams, and supporting APIs for managing Buffers and Codecs.
- Universal Binaries: develop a single app for deployment on iPhone and iPad
- Major improvements related to memory management and memory leaks for iOS (both iPhone and iPad) which substantially improves stability and performance.
Read more about the new features here.
You an download Titanium Studio and SDKs for free (after registering) from the Appcelerator