Boydlee Pollentine - Appcelerator Titanium Smartphone App Development Cookbook

Boydlee Pollentine is a keen mobile developer who has created numerous apps for the iTunes and Android stores and a number of indie games. He is passionate about mobile development, and in particular the Appcelerator Titanium platform. He is both a Titanium Certified Application developer and a member of the Titans evangelist group.

He has been a software engineer and programmer for the last 10 years, primarily focusing on web technologies and Microsofts .NET platform. During this time, he has worked for numerous small and large organizations, including a number of Australian Federal Government departments, state departments, banks, and media organizations.

He currently lives in London and works as a freelance Titanium developer and runs a small blog dedicated to mobile development at http://boydlee.com.

Id like to thank everyone on the Appcelerator forums, Twitter, and the Web, who have helped to contribute and make the great Titanium community what it is today.

Imraan Jhetam is a medical doctor and entrepreneur living in England with equal love 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.

He has been fascinated by computers since his youth and has taught himself the basics of programming during his university years. He has been writing programs since the mid 1970s 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. He has developed i-MAGiNE, a Magazine Type Pictorial RSS feed reader written using the incredible Titanium Studio tools that is now in the Apple App Store. He was also the third prize winner at the first Codestrong Hackathon with two e-payment apps "PayBill" and "PayPad". These also included social media, geo-location, photos, and bar-codes, and which were developed in a restricted and short time using Appcelerator Titanium Studio.

You can contact Imraan via www.i-magine.mobi or via Twitter@The__i.

Julian Lynch is an Information Systems developer with a web development-focused background. He has been involved in application development for corporate environments including government, private, and public companies.

Peter Puglisi is a freelance developer and consultant based in Brisbane, Australia. He has over 20 years of software engineering experience and has worked on both small and large scale projects in the transport, defense, mining, agricultural, pharmaceutical, and financial industries.

More recently, he has been developing iPhone and iPad apps for his successful and growing mobile development business, Bright Light Apps.

He holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from James Cook University and a Post Graduate Diploma in Applied Computing from Central Queensland University. He lives in Brisbane with his wife Sarina, and children, Anthony and Christina.

He can be reached via LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterpuglisi.

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Preface

Not so long ago, creating a mobile application and getting it published was difficult, costly, and, for most developers, commercially unviable. Flash forward a number of years to the introduction of the iPhone and App Store, and suddenly there was a way where anyone who could write a code in Apple's Objective-C language, and had a healthy understanding of provisioning certificates for the Mac, could write a smartphone application and distribute it worldwide with minimal amount of fuss and very little red tape. During the last decade, many of us in the web development community have moved away from archaic C-based languages, and have squarely focused much of our programming knowledge on JavaScript, that ubiquitous little language that despite all its shortcomings has gained momentum and was commonplace both on and off the Web.