One of the new ingredients we want to introduce to our Amsterdam Titanium meetups is giving a short summary of the Titanium news since the last meetup 2 months ago. Mission impossible, given the tons of updates, widgets, tips, books and all coming out every month.
The best way to stay up to date with Titanium news every week is signup for Jeff Bones’s weekly This week in Titanium Mobile Development. But for me, this were some of the highlights for April 15th through June 5th:
- Titanium 3.1.0 GA
- iOS performance increased by 20% and Android by 36%
- New ListView component, multiple times faster then TableView
- Alloy content assist & debugging
- EventKit, Newsstand, Facebook V3, NFC and Oracle modules
- Tizen platform support, Blackberry in beta
- Node.ACS 1.0 GA
- Appcelerator Platform: Full mobile app life-cycle platform
- Titanium App Showcase: Celebrating more then 450.000 developers
- Appcelerator Titanium Application Development by Example: Beginners guide (book)
- Intel x86 images: Faster Android emulator
- SugarTi: iOS direct deployment & hot reloads
- TiCons: Generate icons & launch images (yes, that was mine..)