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I'm just curious, can anyone give me a reason why you wouldn't use Appcelerator (http://www.appcelerator.com/products/titanium-mobile-application-development/ h
by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I'm just curious, can anyone give me a reason why you wouldn't use Appcelerator (http://www.appcelerator.com/products/titanium-mobile-application-development/ http://www.appcelerator.com/products/titanium-mobile-applica...). I can understand there might be projects where you need to code natively but I think 99% of companies would be fine with it and could maintain one code base (or have limited deviation based solely around interface issues).
I don't work for them or anything it just seems odd that tools like this aren't mentioned more prominently in these discussions.
- mmastrac 16y agoThree reasons that I wouldn't recommend it after evaluating it: 1) You can't debug it (afaict) 2) It supports iPhone really well, but Android isn't nearly as nice and doesn't look very native (based on the kitchen sink app). 3) It's unbelievably slow to compile.
- TomOfTTB 16y agoIt's not that I don't think your points are valid (except for 2 which is easily fixed through CSS). But I can't see the time taken by writing a few good tracing functions or waiting for a compile to finish coming anywhere near the amount of time it takes to develop for several different platforms.
- stevenwei 16y agoPerformance is a pretty significant concern on mobile devices with limited resources. Their APIs are also quite limited compared to the native iOS SDK (for example). I don't think these types of tools are suitable for anything but the simplest of apps.