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DC Area Meetup, discussing Appcelerator Alloy, Appcelerator Cloud Services and Appcelerator Node.ACS
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DC Area Appcelerator Titanium Meetup
Aaron K. SaundersCEO Clearly Innovative Inc
January 2013
Tonight’s Topics
• Who we are & what we do• Appcelerator Alloy Book• Appcelerator Overview• Alloy• Appcelerator Cloud Services• Node.ACS
Who Am I
• CEO Clearly Innovative Inc. mobile development agency specializing in HTML5, javascript & nodejs
• Appcelerator Platform Evangelist• 2+ years of Appcelerator blogging • Working on book with Appcelerator Cloud
Services and Alloy for Wiley & Sons
Why Cross-Platform Mobile Development
• Ability to provide mobile solutions to multiple platforms efficiently– Reduce Time To Market– Reduce Total Project Cost– Reduce Total Project Maintenance
About Appcelerator
• Open source cross-platform framework• Generates Native UI Components• IOS, Android and Mobile Web/HTML 5
Support from same code base• Blackberry 10 Support in Beta Preview• Windows 8 Phone 2nd half 2013 release
About Appcelerator: Tools
• Eclipse Based IDE• Code Assist• Integrated Debugger• On device debugging• Integrated device deployment• Integrated cloud services access• Alloy code generation
About Alloy
Alloy is a new application framework by Appcelerator for Titanium. It provides a MVC framework for developers that are building
Titanium apps.http://docs.appcelerator.com/titanium/latest/#!/guide/Alloy_Framework
Alloy Benefits
• Alloy comes with a clean well defined XML UI markup, style sheets, and reusable widget components.
• Built-in Backbone.js and Underscore.js support
Backbone.js gives structure to web applications by providing models with key-value binding
and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with
declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing API over a RESTful JSON
interface.
Simple Alloy Application
Here is the XML for the View
Here is the code for the Controller
Backbone In Alloy
• Models– Keep track of your data
• Collections– Manage lists/arrays of your data
• Sync Adapter(s)– Local Storage, SQL, Properties, extendable
Alloy: Other Features
• Platform specific markup & inline events view files
• Separation of style files in .tss, similar to .css files
• Localization support• Migration support for changes in schema• Customizable parsers
Alloy Models & Collections
• Models inherit from Backbone.Model. NOTE: if the first character of a model is lower case, it will be automatically converted to uppercase for referencing the Model class.
• Collections inherit from Backbone.Collections.• Created a simple Javascript object and it is persisted as an model
Alloy Data-Binding
• Binds model or collection objects to UI Elements
• All elements are not currently supported, but should be by 1.0GA release
• Binding Supports– Filtering– Data Transformation– Global or Local Model & Collection
Alloy Sync Adapter
• Support for persisting application content• Based on common REST verbs– GET > READ– PUT > UPDATE– POST > CREATE– DELETE > DELETE
• Can be integrated with local or remote data stores
Node.ACS
• Built using NodeJS, ExpressJS under the covers• Build and host custom services to extend
Appcelerator Cloud Services (ACS)• Host your existing node.js app/service on the
Appcelerator Cloud• Create Node.ACS apps directly from TiStudio
http://nodeacs.cloud.appcelerator.com/guides/quickstart
Appcelerator Cloud Services
Appcelerator Cloud Services: Pricing
Downloads for Getting Started with Alloy
• Official Appcelerator Alloy Documentation– http://docs.appcelerator.com/titanium/latest/#!/guide/
Alloy_Framework
• Quick Start: bit.ly/alloyqs
• TiStudio/TiSDK 3.0– http://preview.appcelerator.com/studio/
• More Information– Wiki docs: bit.ly/alloy_docs– Google Groups: bit.ly/alloy_group– Github: github.com/appcelerator/alloy
Appcelerator TCAD Example
https://github.com/aaronksaunders/alloy_fugitive/
LOOK AT SOME CODE?
Appcelerator & Kinvey Integration
https://github.com/aaronksaunders/todolist.alloy.kinvey
LOOK AT SOME CODE?
Aaron K SaundersTwitter: @aaronksaundersblog: http://blog.clearlyinnovative.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ClearlyInnovativeIncGithub : https://github.com/aaronksaunders/SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/aaronksaunders/
1706 R Street, NWWashington, DC 20009
www.clearlyinnovative.com