Benjamin Bahrenburg - Appcelerator Titanium Business Application Development Cookbook

Benjamin Bahrenburg is a developer, blogger, speaker, and consultant. Ben specializes in building enterprise solutions using mobile technologies, geolocation services, and domain-specific languages. Over the last decade, he has provided mobility solutions for numerous Fortune 100 organizations.

Ben is passionate about cross-platform development, particularly the use of Titanium mobile for mobile app development. He was an early adopter of the Titanium mobile SDK and has built apps since the earliest previews of Appcelerator's mobile platform. Ben is an active member of the mobile development community and holds a Titanium certification in addition to being part of the Appcelerator Titan evangelist group. A strong advocate and contributor to the Titanium module ecosystem, Ben has published numerous open source modules used in thousands of published apps.

An active blogger at bencoding.com, he frequently posts tutorials on mobile development and enterprise coding topics.

I would like to thank my family, friends, and co-workers for their enthusiasm and encouragement. Without their support, this book would not have been possible. I would also like to thank the Titanium community for providing a thriving environment to learn, create, and develop within.

David Bankier leads YY Digital, a company that builds integrated mobile, tablet, and server-side applications for enterprise. Previously, David worked in the telecommunications industry with a strong focus on VoIP technologies. He has used Titanium for mobile development since 2010 and uses a mix of Node, Scala, and Java on the backend. David is also the creator of TiShadow, the popular open source project for rapid Titanium development. As a Titan, David's blog http://www.yydigital.com/blog dives deep into Titanium.

Imraan Jhetam is a medical doctor and entrepreneur living in England with equal loves for both medical law and technology. He earned his Medical Degree from the University of Natal in 1983, his MBA from the University of Witwatersrand and a Masters of Law Degree from Cardiff University.

Imraan has been fascinated by computers since his youth and taught himself the basics of programming during his university years. He has been writing programs since the mid 1970's in various languages and for different platforms and has fond memories of his first Apple IIe with its then impressive 64 KB RAM.

When he is not busy seeing patients or writing medico-legal reports, he spends his time developing applications and developed Snappa, a social-sharing game that is the better way to draw something for friends. This was written using the incredible Titanium Studio tools and Appcelerator Cloud Services and is now in the Apple and Android App Stores. He was also third prize winner at the first Codestrong Hackathon with two e-payment apps PayBill and PayPad, that also included social media, geolocation, photos, and bar-codes, and which were developed in a restricted and short time using Appcelerator Titanium Studio.

You can contact Imraan via www.snappa.mobi or via Twitter @The__i.

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Preface

The demand for mobile apps by business enterprises has never been greater. While meeting this demand is becoming increasingly business critical, the complexities of development are amplified by the explosion in devices and platforms. Mobile JavaScript frameworks have been available since the start of the smartphone revolution and is the perfect platform to meet these challenges. Recognizing the cross-platform nature of these frameworks, enterprises have begun to rely on them for building cost-effective yet compelling cross-platform solutions.

With an innovative architecture, Appcelerator's Titanium Mobile stands out for its rapid development speed, large number of APIs, and focus on providing a native experience. With a thriving community and a growing number of enterprise partners, Titanium has quickly become one of the largest cross-platform mobile frameworks.

Appcelerator Titanium Business Application Development Cookbook shows how you can create native mobile apps using your existing JavaScript skills. Through a series of examples and supporting code, all aspects needed for Enterprise Titanium development are covered. You will learn to use a single JavaScript codebase to develop cross-platform enterprise mobile apps for iOS and Android.