Titanium SDK

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Titanium SDK
Developer(s) TiDev, Inc.
Stable release
12.3.0.GA / February 16, 2024;5 months ago (2024-02-16) [1]
Preview release
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Operating system macOS , Windows, Linux
Platform iOS, Android
Type Application framework
License Apache Public License v2
Website Titanium SDK

Titanium SDK is an open-source framework that allows the creation of native mobile applications on platforms iOS and Android from a single JavaScript codebase. [2] It is presently developed by non-profit software foundation TiDev, Inc. [3] [4]

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In February 2013, Business Insider estimated that 10% of all smartphones worldwide ran Titanium-built apps. [5] As of 2017, Titanium had amassed over 950,000 developer registrations. [6]

The core component of the Titanium software ecosystem is the Apache-licensed software development kit, Titanium SDK. Alloy, a Titanium-based model–view–controller framework, is a related project presently maintained and developed by TiDev, Inc for use with the Titanium SDK.

Titanium SDK was originally developed and maintained by Appcelerator, Inc, then later by Axway, Inc after Axway purchased Appcelerator in 2016. [7] Today the Titanium SDK and related projects are developer-maintained under direction of non-profit Alabama corporation TiDev, Inc. based in Centreville, Alabama. [8]

History

When it was introduced in December 2008, Titanium was intended for developing cross-platform desktop applications and was sometimes compared to Adobe Air. [9] [10] However, it added support for developing iPhone and Android mobile applications in June 2009, and in 2012, Titanium Desktop was spun off into a separate, community-driven project named TideSDK. [11] [12] Support for developing iPad-based tablet apps was added in April 2010. [13] BlackBerry support was announced in June 2010, [14] and has been in beta since April 2013. Tizen support was also added in April 2013 with the 3.1.0 Titanium Studio and SDK releases. The latest addition to the platform in 2016 has been Hyperloop, a technology to access native API's on iOS, Android and Windows with JavaScript. [15]

In April 2010, Appcelerator expanded the Titanium product line with the Titanium Tablet SDK. The Titanium Tablet SDK draws heavily from the existing support for iPhone, but it also includes native support for iPad-only user interface controls such as split views and popovers. Initially the mobile SDK only supported development for iPad, but support now includes Android-based tablets as well.

In June 2011, Appcelerator released Studio and Titanium Mobile 1.7. [16] Studio is a full open standards IDE that is derived from Aptana Studio which Appcelerator acquired in January 2011.

In June 2013, Jeff Haynie, Appcelerator's CEO, announced that the company had begun Ti.Next, a project to rewrite the Titanium SDK in Javascript for improved performance and to bring Titanium's end users, who write in Javascript, closer to the internal code. [17]

In January 2016, Appcelerator was acquired by Axway, a global software company with more than 11,000 public- and private-sector customers in 100 countries. [18] Since then, the Indie plans have been made free again, including native API access with Hyperloop. [19]

Architecture

The core features of Titanium SDK include:

All application source code gets deployed to the mobile device where it is interpreted [20] using a JavaScript engine; Mozilla's Rhino is used on Android, BlackBerry, and Apple's JavascriptCore is used on iOS. [21] In 2011 it was announced that a port to Google's V8 JavaScript engine is in development which, when complete, will significantly improve performance. [22] Program loading takes longer than it does for programs developed with the native SDKs, as the interpreter and all required libraries must be loaded before interpreting the source code on the device can begin.

Titanium provides APIs for:

Versions

Version (since 2022)Release date
11.1.0.GA8 September 2022
11.1.1.GA26 September 2022
12.0.0.GA30 December 2022
12.1.0.GA24 April 2023
12.1.1.GA28 April 2023
12.1.2.GA2 June 2023
12.2.0.GA15 September 2023
12.2.1.GA9 October 2023
12.3.0.GA16 February 2024
12.4.0.GA17 July 2024

12.4.0.GA with all minor updates and release candidates. [23]

Notable features

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