DC Titanium User Group Meetup: Appcelerator Titanium Alloy jan2013
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The document discusses a meetup on Appcelerator Titanium. It introduces Aaron Saunders and his company Clearly Innovative. The topics covered include an overview of Appcelerator, its tools, Alloy framework, Appcelerator Cloud Services, and Node.ACS. Alloy provides a MVC framework and benefits like reusable components. Node.ACS allows hosting node.js apps on Appcelerator Cloud. Code examples of a simple Alloy app and its integration with Kinvey are shown.
DC Titanium User Group Meetup: Appcelerator Titanium Alloy jan2013
- 1. DC Area Appcelerator Titanium Meetup Aaron K. Saunders CEO Clearly Innovative Inc January 2013
- 2. Tonight’s Topics • Who we are & what we do • Appcelerator Alloy Book • Appcelerator Overview • Alloy • Appcelerator Cloud Services • Node.ACS
- 3. 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
- 4. 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
- 5. 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
- 6. About Appcelerator: Tools • Eclipse Based IDE • Code Assist • Integrated Debugger • On device debugging • Integrated device deployment • Integrated cloud services access • Alloy code generation
- 7. About Alloy Alloy is a new application framework by Appcelerator for Titanium. It provides a MVC framework for developers that are building Titanium apps. http://docs.appcelerator.com/titanium/latest/#!/guide/Alloy_Framework
- 8. 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
- 9. 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.
- 11. Here is the XML for the View
- 12. Here is the code for the Controller
- 13. Backbone In Alloy • Models – Keep track of your data • Collections – Manage lists/arrays of your data • Sync Adapter(s) – Local Storage, SQL, Properties, extendable
- 14. 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
- 15. 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
- 16. 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
- 17. 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
- 18. 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
- 20. Appcelerator Cloud Services: Pricing
- 21. 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
- 22. Appcelerator TCAD Example https://github.com/aaronksaunders/alloy_fugitive/ LOOK AT SOME CODE?
- 23. Appcelerator & Kinvey Integration https://github.com/aaronksaunders/todolist.alloy.kinvey LOOK AT SOME CODE?
- 24. Aaron K Saunders Twitter: @aaronksaunders blog: http://blog.clearlyinnovative.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ClearlyInnovativeInc Github : https://github.com/aaronksaunders/ SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/aaronksaunders/ 1706 R Street, NW Washington, DC 20009 www.clearlyinnovative.com