DC Titanium User Group Meetup jan2013

DC Area Appcelerator Titanium Meetup Aaron K. Saunders CEO Clearly Innovative Inc January 2013

Tonight’s Topics• Who we are & what we do• Appcelerator Alloy Book• Appcelerator Overview• Alloy• Appcelerator Cloud Services• Node.ACS

Who Am I• CEO Clearly Innovative Inc. mobile development agency specializing in HTML5, javascript & nodejs• Appcelerator Platform Evangelist• 2+ years of Appcelerator blogging• Working on book with Appcelerator Cloud Services and Alloy for Wiley & Sons

Why Cross-Platform Mobile Development• Ability to provide mobile solutions to multiple platforms efficiently – Reduce Time To Market – Reduce Total Project Cost – Reduce Total Project Maintenance

About Appcelerator• Open source cross-platform framework• Generates Native UI Components• IOS, Android and Mobile Web/HTML 5 Support from same code base• Blackberry 10 Support in Beta Preview• Windows 8 Phone 2nd half 2013 release

About Appcelerator: Tools• Eclipse Based IDE• Code Assist• Integrated Debugger• On device debugging• Integrated device deployment• Integrated cloud services access• Alloy code generation

About Alloy Alloy is a new application framework byAppcelerator for Titanium. It provides a MVC framework for developers that are building Titanium apps.http://docs.appcelerator.com/titanium/latest/#!/guide/Alloy_Framework

Alloy Benefits• Alloy comes with a clean well defined XML UI markup, style sheets, and reusable widget components.• Built-in Backbone.js and Underscore.js support

Backbone.js gives structure to web applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing API over a RESTful JSON interface.

Simple Alloy Application

Here is the XML for the View

Here is the code for the Controller

Backbone In Alloy• Models – Keep track of your data• Collections – Manage lists/arrays of your data• Sync Adapter(s) – Local Storage, SQL, Properties, extendable

Alloy: Other Features• Platform specific markup & inline events view files• Separation of style files in .tss, similar to .css files• Localization support• Migration support for changes in schema• Customizable parsers

Alloy Models & Collections• Models inherit from Backbone.Model. NOTE: if the first character of a model is lower case, it will be automatically converted to uppercase for referencing the Model class.• Collections inherit from Backbone.Collections.• Created a simple Javascript object and it is persisted as an model

Alloy Data-Binding• Binds model or collection objects to UI Elements• All elements are not currently supported, but should be by 1.0GA release• Binding Supports – Filtering – Data Transformation – Global or Local Model & Collection

Alloy Sync Adapter• Support for persisting application content• Based on common REST verbs – GET > READ – PUT > UPDATE – POST > CREATE – DELETE > DELETE• Can be integrated with local or remote data stores

Node.ACS• Built using NodeJS, ExpressJS under the covers• Build and host custom services to extend Appcelerator Cloud Services (ACS)• Host your existing node.js app/service on the Appcelerator Cloud• Create Node.ACS apps directly from TiStudio http://nodeacs.cloud.appcelerator.com/guides/quickstart

Appcelerator Cloud Services

Appcelerator Cloud Services: Pricing

Downloads for Getting Started with Alloy• Official Appcelerator Alloy Documentation – http://docs.appcelerator.com/titanium/latest/#!/guide/All oy_Framework• Quick Start: bit.ly/alloyqs• TiStudio/TiSDK 3.0 – http://preview.appcelerator.com/studio/• More Information – Wiki docs: bit.ly/alloy_docs – Google Groups: bit.ly/alloy_group – Github: github.com/appcelerator/alloy

Appcelerator TCAD Examplehttps://github.com/aaronksaunders/alloy_fugitive/ LOOK AT SOME CODE?

Appcelerator & Kinvey Integration https://github.com/aaronksaunders/todolist.alloy.kinvey LOOK AT SOME CODE?

Aaron K SaundersTwitter: @aaronksaundersblog: http://blog.clearlyinnovative.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ClearlyInnovativeIncGithub : https://github.com/aaronksaunders/SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/aaronksaunders/ 1706 R Street, NW Washington, DC 20009 www.clearlyinnovative.com

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