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Augmented Reality using Appcelerator Titanium Starter

By : Trevor Ward
Book Image

Augmented Reality using Appcelerator Titanium Starter

By: Trevor Ward

Overview of this book

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, Cloud Services, MVC design patterns and more, the last year in Titanium development has been a roller coaster of change for the better. Augmented Reality is a hot area for mobile applications and this book along with the augmentedTi open source application will give a great start to all augmented applications. This book will show you how to build an Augmented Reality application, which is clean, efficient and usable. It shows how to hide the processing from the user and build a display which updates and rotates smoothly.Mobile devices have got more powerful, but they still have limitations. Augmented Reality applications test these devices to breaking point and without the correct coding techniques make the applications unresponsive and cumbersome.This book gives a solution, which will enable you to build an effective application, and is accompanied by a complete working application and source code. It's essential for anybody who is creating a multiple points of interest augmented reality application. It shows how to build this type of application efficiently and takes into consideration the devices limitations and processing capabilities.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)
Augmented Reality using Appcelerator Titanium Starter
Credits
Foreword
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktLib.PacktPub.com
About the author
About the reviewers
Index

People and places you should get to know


If you need help with Augmented Reality using Appcelerator Titanium, here are some people and places it's worth getting familiar with.

Official sites

Appcelerator has some very useful resources for coding using their Titanium framework:

Articles and tutorials

The best place to follow anything on Augmented Reality is http://www.augmentedadvertising.com/. This site has lots of information and links to the most relevant articles, books, and applications.

As Titanium becomes more commonplace, more training materials, reference guides, and community forums are appearing. But the only real place to get the latest information at the time of writing this book is www.appcelerator.com.