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With the Appcelerator Platform I am able to build a cross platform application (from one code base project) with extensive native API reach. I love that Appcelerator apps run on the native JS core for the respective platform, making the code I write run more efficiently with less lag than some of the other web offerings for cross platform capabilities. For me, the ability to extend the API is key to our success using the platform. We have unique needs for custom hardware and we were able to write custom native modules to integrate our hardware API into the Appcelerator JS layer. I also use the Alloy MVC framework quite heavily and really like the widgets feature of the platform. We write widgets for UI and core logic to be shared with all applications within our organization. This cuts down on code duplication and speeds up the time to market for new projects. Also a time saver for developers is the integration of Genymotion to the development studio. We have found the native Android emulator to be an impediment to development and Genymotion fills that gap nicely. Genymotion requires only a plugin to eclipse, which is compatible with Appcelerator studio. The extensive developer community is another reason we chose Appcelerator. Its quite easy to find answers online from other users, or ask a question yourself and you will receive an answer in a timely manner. We also subscribe to the paid support access and will ask project specific or critical time sensitive questions there. We have had a good experience with their support staff, if they are not able to solve our problem or find that there is a bug int he API a JIRA ticket is filed and fixed typically in the next patch release. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
With any development suite you will run into bugs. Appcelerator is no exception to this. We tend to wait a few weeks after a new major API version to let the bugs get worked out and usually take up work with a new version upon release of the first patch update. Sometimes it can be a waiting game for a certain new platform features to be implemented into the Appcelerator Platform API; Unless of course you, or someone out in the developer community creates a module or widget to expose that functionality. The documentation can sometimes be incomplete or out of date. They recently opened up their documentation to the open source community for contribution so hopefully time will bridge this gap.
The enterprise subscription can be expensive. The cost is based on head count with access to the dashboard and development features. In comparison to our previous vendor the cost is not based on application deployed so we save on being able to deploy multiple applications and future growth. The value is in the features and services that we get from our subscription as opposed to the cost going into maintaining the servers hosting the UI for each individual app as with some other offerings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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Single language for cross platform apps. Single source code, with minor tweaks. Integrates well with source control. Smooth prototype to production. I am able to make a change and see it immediately on the live view, I don't have to refresh, just "Save". The ability to use a language like JS allows a quick build and deploy. If I have a question the community base of JS allows me to look around and find my answer relatively quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
IDE can be slow. Updates didn't always work. Since the acquisition by Axway some added stability has improved. Some of the UI build features which come standard in other IDE's are only available in the higher tiers, while this was not a deal breaker because of LiveView, it is something that can be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Appcelerator Titanium is cross-platform based hybrid app development API. It allows developers to write their apps in JavaScript, which is then complied for each supported platform. Using APIs that interface directly with each platform’s native APIs, it provides a native look-and-feel plus native performance.
What I likes the most is:
- Easy and quick development for a web developer (as it is written using JavaScript, TSS - which very much similar to css)
- Extensive support with strong API
- Supports Android and iOS (which is quite very useful)
- Re-usability of code, while converting it from one platform to other with small small UI tweaks
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Although it is easy to develop, but things which worries is:
- Memory leakage issue (there is huge memory issue, you have to manually handle it)
- Rich and advance UI elements support (it doesn't provides more advanced UI elements) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I enjoy that you can write code in one language (JavaScript) and kind of translate it to all major platforms. This gives the ability to make easy mockups and simple applications. I wrote my first application for iOS using Titanium many many years ago when Appcelerator just started. At that time cross-compilers were still rare and Titanium one big hit from a developer perspective. We even considered to use it at my old company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Being a programmer sometimes I have to be nosey and look under the hood. When evaluating the sizes of the applications I noticed that applications that are generated with Titanium have at least a certain file size. This is happing for the fact that almost all modules are embedded in every application to translate the JavaScript on the fly into native code. Yes, somehow it is native, but on the other side it stays not native. At that time when evaluating the file sizes it was still a no-go for us, since our target user group would be people with mobile contracts which unlikely have fast internet available when downloading the app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I especially like because Its main products are the IDE Titanium , a development environment open source for coding platform applications for mobile devices, and Platform Appcelerator , a suite of software and libraries in which development is based , testing, analysis , debugging and deployment of such applications. Such products are often grouped simply under the name of Titanium or Titanium Framework Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
everything is excellent , nothing I dislike this app because apart from all Applications developed with this technology are based on the Javascript language, with use of an API platform itself , the interpretation of the code Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Appcelerator studio is a cross platform tools .I am working with this tool from last 8 months.It is a nice platform where you can use native app features .It uses's javascript so who are good at javascript easily develop apps as soon as possible.I used some of the functionalities in my app like Gps and call functionality and gmaps.No need to go for platform dependent languages
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here chat with appcelerator will get late response from them and not yet good community site. laggy when working with animation.Not yet all speed response from appcelerator chat members.And when i updated to new sdk need to upgrade my old code to new sdk is some what painfull.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
One time code for developing android and IOS mobile apps.
Appcelerator team support on issues which we face and addressing them
Documents provided with concepts explanation in detail.
Sample application for reference. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
UI components should be further improvised so that dependency on external modules will be reduced.
Small UI customization requires a lot of change with respect to its css attributes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Simple and intuitive interface that helps creating the product quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Every time with version upgrade we're forced to rewrite most of our projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Rapid cross platform mobile applications development. The MVC model is best suited for clean and quick application development. Any web developer can easily transition to building mobile apps using the same principles of web app development. The installation procedure is a breeze. great support for ubuntu OS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
lack of great documentation and assorted community support. The forums are not that helpful. I would like to more tutorials and exhaustive documentations with sample code. As the complexity of the app increases there is clear lag in the app performance, hopefully that will be fixed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I like the full Javascript approach. This enable developers without any experience in mobile app development (java or Objective C / Swift) to start building apps really quickly. UX and business process are both designed with JS. A great documentation is provided to help you with examples. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Most of the time, I had to be really careful when performing a migration for major updates. This processes used to break some of our apps. Thus, there is always some time to wait before you can update your apps to the new versions of Android or iOs SDKs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
That I can take the knowledge I already know about HTML, CSS, JS, Backbone and apply it to mobile apps. I also love that it's not just a web app wrapped in a web view. It's an actual Native Mobile Application that works for iOS and Android. I specifically use the Alloy.js Framework that Appcelerator has created. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
My only dislike would be the lack of Windows Phone Support and the lack of any game development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
