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Appcelerator Titanium: Patterns and Best Practices

By : Boydlee Pollentine , Trevor Ward
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Appcelerator Titanium: Patterns and Best Practices

By: Boydlee Pollentine , Trevor Ward

Overview of this book

<p>Titanium Mobile has quickly become the platform of choice for many mobile developers and is growing and changing at a rapid rate. From the implementation of CommonJS,&nbsp; MVC design patterns and more, the last year in Titanium development has been a rollercoaster of change for the better. With this knowledge at your disposal you’ll be creating top quality, highly capable and stable apps in no time.<br /><br />This book shows you exactly how to implement all the latest Titanium Mobile best practices into your apps, from a thorough explanation of CommonJS with plenty of examples, through to structuring a complete MVC style codebase. With advanced topics such as implementing patterns and utilizing ACS, through to a thorough investigation of CommonJS and prototype, this book will take you from Titanium Novice to Titanium Ninja in no time!<br /><br />"Appcelerator Titanium: Patterns and Best Practices" starts off with some explanations on JavaScript practices and advanced topics, before getting stuck into the new CommonJS pattern and using that to implement MVC-style architectures for your application. It continues in a practical, hands on manner, explaining how to perform cross device layouts with different techniques, and how to implement SQL alternatives such as JSONDB.<br /><br />The book discusses some of the major advanced JavaScript topics, such as prototype and micro optimizations, before leading the developer into a thorough explanation of the CommonJS pattern, MVC implementation and advanced topics such as SQL alternatives and implementing designs for cross device layouts.</p>
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Appcelerator Titanium: Patterns and Best Practices

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First published: February 2013

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