Build native apps for iOS, Android, and Blackberry from a single JavaScript codebase with Appcelerator Titanium. This guide gets you quickly up to speed on this amazing framework and shows you how to generate cross-platform apps with 100% native controls. You’ll also learn the advantages of using Titanium when you want to create an app for just one native platform, rather than struggle with Java or Objective-C.

Fast-paced and full of examples, this book helps you build your first project with Titanium Studio, and then takes you through the steps necessary to build complex data-bound apps.

• Learn how Titanium differs from frameworks such as jQuery Mobile and Sencha Touch
• Set up and use iOS and Android SDKs and compilers with Titanium
• Build basic UI and window controls, and create your own composite objects
• Take a peek at how Titanium objects and methods work behind the scenes
• Learn how JavaScript makes Titanium easy to extend and customize
• Develop apps that consume complex data, whether it’s stored locally or on remote servers
• Understand the pros and cons of distributing apps on the App Store and Android Market