Finally I have managed to create a package of a Titanium app. It is a simple period table app called Elemental – which you can get here.
This is actually the second personal Titanium app which I have worked on. The first is an astronomical calculations app which I have not quite finished yet, and need a certain bug in Titanium fixed before I can complete it so it is on the back burner.
It seems that ever since I have been working on Titanium at work, it has had me obsessed.
So, why on earth do I love Titanium so?
Well, Titanium is a great step to marrying two worlds that have up to now been apart. Desktop applications and web apps. Web browsers, for security reasons, don’t allow web apps to access any local resources on a computer. It would be very irresponsible and dangerous if they did, however, this limits what you can do with a web app. Desktop apps have that power, but lack the flexibility of easy distribution and platform-independance.
Now, with Titanium, the two realms are easily intermingled, and it is the most fun I have had in a long time.
What this means is that web apps are going to increase their dominance in the market far more than ever before thought, and one Javascript is the language that is gaining far more prominence than I ever suspected it could gain. It could easily become the most widely used language in the near future to write entire applications in.
But then again, anything can happen…….this is IT after all.
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