This article is the last in a series of articles covering four ways to develop a mobile application. In previous articles, we covered how to build a tip calculator in native iOS , native Android and PhoneGap . In this article, we’ll look at another cross-platform development tool, Appcelerator Titanium. PhoneGap enabled us to build a tip calculator app quickly and have it run on both the Android and iOS platforms. In doing so, we were left with a user interface (UI) that, while quite usable, did not offer quite the same experience as that of a truly native application. Our PhoneGap solution leveraged a Web view and rendered the UI with HTML5 and CSS3. By contrast, Appcelerator Titanium applications render the UI using the platform’s native controls. Titanium is intended to provide the experience of a native UI , along with portability between the iOS, Android and BlackBerry platforms.
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