Gaurav Kheterpal's session on Titanium best practices at TiConf held at Bangalore on July 19, 2014

1. Titanium:TheGoodParts!
GauravKheterpal
gaurav.kheterpal@metacube.com
@gauravkheterpal

2. Before We Begin
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• Shout out to Boydlee, Tipsy and
Tumbler
• And of course to Appcelerator 
• Bangalore Titanium Meetup Group -
http://www.meetup.com/Bangalore-
Titanium/

3. Agenda
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• Quick Intro
• Overview
• Ramping Up
• Cross Platform Development
• But I’m a noob 
• Let’s Get Started
• Questions and Answers

4. Quick Intro
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• Engineering Post Graduate from BITS, Pilani (Not everybody
drops out )
• Mobile + Web Developer With 15 Years of Industry
Experience (I’m getting old )
• Android, iOS Developer (That’s where the bucks are)
• Appcelerator Titanium Titan (Wish they paid me too )
• TCAD Certified Developer & Titanium Certified Instructor
• Keen Interest in Cross-Platform Frameworks such as
Titanium, PhoneGap, Sencha Touch and others (Fed up of
developing same app on multiple platforms)
• Speaker at leading industry conferences such as Dreamforce,
SenchaCon, DroidCon and several others
• Moderator – Bangalore Titanium Meetup Group
• Runner Up – Appcelerator Enterprise App Challenge, 2014

5. Ramping Up
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6. Ramping Up
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7. Ramping Up
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8. Cross Platform
Development
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Cross-Platform !== “Write Once, Run Everywhere”
• Cross-Platform in Titanium means:
• Lots of UI code reuse, depending on design
• Best-in-class experience on every platform
• “Write Once, Adapt Everywhere”

9. But I’m a Noob 
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• Understand The Platforms
• Some Love for JavaScript
• Titanium Studio
• Kitchen Sink – Your Best Friend!

10. What is Titanium
Studio?
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11. But I’m a Noob 
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• Kitchen Sink
• UI Components
• UI Containers
• Phone Features
• Platform Features
• Mashups

12. Source Code
Organization
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• Decide your platform priorities, device
priorities, common/ different features
- Single Codebase
- Different Codebases
- Single Codebase with multiple branches

13. Source Code
Organization
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• Believe that Android & iOS can peacefully
co-exist

14. Source Code
Organization
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• Believe that Android &
iOS can peacefully co-
exist

15. Design
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• Understand Platform Differences
• Navigation
• Back
• Retina/ Non-Retina
• Hdpi, ldpi, mdpi etc.
• 2.3.x to 4.4.x

16. Design
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17. Design
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• Internationalize even if you need to
support one language first up

18. Versions
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• Version-specific behavior is often required

19. Architecture
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20. Architecture
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21. Documentation
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22. Documentation
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23. Performance
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• Tools such as New Relic offer
comprehensive information including
• Execution time of various modules
• Network Response monitoring

24. Performance
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25. Performance
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26. Performance
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27. Crash Monitoring
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• Tools such as BugSense
• Android Module available on
Appcelerator MarketPlace

28. Distribution
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• Ti Module -
https://github.com/Rebelcorp/HockeyApp

29. 29
Q&A?
Hungry?
Sleepy?

http://developer.appcelerator.com
gaurav.kheterpal@metacube.com
@gauravkheterpal