Appcelerator Announces Public Preview Release of Titanium

December 10, 2008

By Anshu Shrivastava, TMCnet Contributor

Appcelerator, a provider of open source technologies for building and managing rich Web applications, has announced the public preview release of Appcelerator Titanium.

Appcelerator Titanium is an open source platform for building desktop and mobile applications using a common set of Web technologies.

Titanium allows developers to use standard Web technologies such as HTML, CSS (News - Alert) and JavaScript to develop applications. Company officials said that these applications can be deployed to multiple platforms, such as desktop, the browser or the mobile device.

Titanium is built on a top of a number of open source technologies including WebKit, Gears and Chromium, and can work on Windows, Mac, and Linux desktop operating systems.

Traditional Web applications are limited to operating within the browser, while in comparison, according to the company, Titanium desktop applications are able to read and write local data on the desktop and interact with the operating system.

With Titanium, developers can build desktop Web applications that can operate both online and offline.

Since Web applications are easy to build and distribute, they have “exploded.” Jeff Haynie, CEO at Appcelerator, said that until now they have lacked the full feature set of native desktop applications.

Haynie said that Titanium enables a whole new generation of applications that use standard Web technologies to build rich desktop and mobile applications.

This latest offering from the company provides an open source alternative. Haynie said that it offers a solution for those who prefer open source for strategic reasons or want to extend the functionality of the Titanium platform to meet unique requirements.

Titanium helps in development of production-level web and desktop applications, including native windowing; direct file system access; database integration; local database storage; desktop notifications; and more.

In addition, it comes with the ability to integrate web applications into the desktop environment with desktop technologies, including offline use and direct file system access.

Currently, according to the company, the Windows and Mac version of Titanium are available. The Linux version is expected to be available in January 2009.

Titanium is distributed under the Apache Public License.

Anshu Shrivastava is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Anshu's articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Tim Gray

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