Get Started with Titanium

Welcome to the Get Started Reference for Appcelerator Titanium. If you're new to Titanium, then this short guide will help get started fast in developing rich applications for the desktop.

There are several chapters in this guide, each discussing important topics you'll need to know to get started in developing apps using Titanium. You can navigate the guide by clicking on the link to the chapters and sections on the right.

A Work in Progress

This guide is a work in progress. Some parts may be unavailable yet, and some parts might still need further editing and elaboration.

The good thing is that like everything else here in CodeStrong, this Get Started guide is editable, and we're inviting you to edit and improve this guide for everyone's benefit. Before doing anything though, we recommend you to read through the Contributor's Guide to clear a few things.

How This Guide is Organized

This guide is composed of several chapters that deal with different topics, both about Titanium and app development in general.

Chapter 1: Introduction to Titanium is a quick overview of the Titanium platform, what it is, how it works and what benefits you'll get from using it.

Chapter 2: Setting Up Your Environment will walk you through installing the Titanium SDK on your system. You'll also get to see Titanium in action with a very simple Titanium Hello World app.

Chapter 3: The Titanium Developer Tool talks about the most important tool you'll use in developing applications using Titanium.

Chapter 4: A Quick Look at a Titanium Project takes a peek at your project directory and explains the different files and directories inside of it, like the tiapp.xml file (and the properties inside it) and the Resources folder.

Chapter 5: Your First Titanium App will guide you through creating your first Titanium application: a simple RSS feed reader.

Chapter 6: Code, Test, Package and Deploy talks about the basic lifecycle of app development, the tools you can use for testing and debugging your application and the all important topic of packaging and distributing your Titanium apps.

Chapter 7: Quick Tour of the API explains some of the more commonly used API methods and properties you'll use.

Chapter 8: Sample Apps offers several example apps that use the various APIs discussed in Chapter 7 and walks you through recreating them.

Chapter 9: Moving Forward discusses what to do when you've finally wrapped your head around the basics of Titanium.

Copyright and License

Getting Started with Titanium. Copyrighted 2009, Appcelerator Inc.

This work is released under the Creative Commons Attribution, Noncommercial, Share-Alike license, version 3.0.