Titanium Developer Meet, Bangalore

The first Titanium User Group meeting took place in Bangalore on 4th September 2009. The event was organized by Mohammad Khan (The guy in the blue T-Shirt in the snap)and others Of Esberi. The event started at 6:00PM and close to 15 people attended the event. It all began with an introduction to Titanium SDK and how to use the Titanium Developer tool to create applications for both iPhone and Android mobile platform. Since I already had played around using Titanium Developer tool, most of the stuff I heard there about using the tool was already known.

The meet was useful in that I got to learn what are the features and API’s provided by Titanium SDK to write applications for mobile. Some of the code samples shown at the meet were encouraging and I would say the code would be familiar to a person who had already worked on say Adobe Flex. Even for beginners, it’s not so tough to learn it.

There was an application demo by Chinmay, college graduate who had built an application using Titanium Developer tool for both iPhone and Android mobile. The application was basically interacting with a social networking website called brightkite (http://brightkite.com/) The application looked pretty good both in terms of its UI design and functionality. It showcased how users can use the GPS data from iPhone and Android mobiles to interact with BrightKite social networking website. Chinmay also explained us the problems that he faced developing his application and how he over came it to win an honour from Appcelerator. Congrats Chinmay for the award..!

Over all it was a great learning experience and got to meet lots of new people especially Mohammad Khan. Wish to see more of the user group meeting in the coming days.

“Code Strong” with Titanium Developer tool

About Titanium Mobile

You Can Build a Native App for That

With Titanium, you get native access to device features like geo-location, local file system / database, photos, and touch / accelerometer controls. Your apps look great because they use native UI elements, styling, transitions, and they run great because we compile Titanium to native code for peak performance.

At Web Dev Speed

Your friends may talk about ‘provisioning this’ and ‘memory allocation that’ but meanwhile you’ve got 5 apps in the store to their 1. That’s because you’re building in Javascript, HTML, and CSS, so you’re running circles around the competition.

Delivered Across Two Platforms

The last thing you want worry about is cross-platform compatibility. That’s why we give you one platform for developing both iPhone and Android apps. The Titanium framework shares common APIs across devices and provides extensibility for each device’s unique capabilities.

More details at:   http://www.appcelerator.com/products/titanium-mobile/