Draft version of presentation I am working on for an Appcelerator Meetup in January

1. DC Area Titanium Appcelerator
Meetup
@ .
PaaS + Appcelerator = WIN
Aaron K. Saunders
Founder/CTO Clearly Innovative Inc.

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3. Who Am I?
• Founder/CTO Clearly Innovative Inc.
• Appcelerator Platform Evangelist
• 25+ years experience in software
development field
– Recently Enterprise Web Development w/Java &
Open Source Technologies
• Mobile App Development with Appcelerator
for last two years
• Top Contributor on Appcelerator Q&A Forum

4. Titanium Is…
• A cross-platform JavaScript-based
framework
• With access to native OS and hardware
features
• Modular and extensible
• Free

5. Titanium exploits the native
ecosystem
Native User Experience
Multimedia
Native performance + Native UI
Camera, video camera,
(tables, animations, gestures…e
streaming/device audio/video
tc.)
Location-based services Analytics
Augmented
Track usage patterns and
reality, geolocation, compass, n
adoption
ative maps
Social sharing Titanium modules
Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo YQL. Appcelerator Marketplace for
Native email/address book add-on functionality
Data
Development tools
Local SQLite, filesystem,
Titanium Studio, integration
properties data store, web
with native SDK tools
services

6. Titanium is easier
// Objective-C
UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc]
initWithTitle:@"Alert"
message:@"Hello World"
delegate:nil
cancelButtonTitle:@"OK"
otherButtonTitles:nil];
[alert show];
[alert release];

7. Titanium is easier
// Java/Android
AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
builder.setMessage("Hello World")
.setCancelable(false)
.setPositiveButton("OK", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener(){
• public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id) {
MyActivity.this.finish();
}
});
AlertDialog alert = builder.create();

8. Titanium is easier
// Titanium
alert("Hello World");
… and it’s cross platform!

9. Powered by Titanium
Applications:
• NBC apps
• NYS Senate
• Wunderlist
• GetGlue
Companies:
• Kellogg’s
• NBC/Universal
• eBay and PayPal
• Anheuser Busch
• Jaguar
• … and many more

10. What is PaaS

11. (PaaS) Platform as a Service
• Simply put….
– Build your mobile application without writing
any server code ( cocoafish.com )
– Cuts backend development time from months
to minutes letting developers focus on
creating powerful app with quality user
experiences ( StackMob.com)

12. World With No PaaS
• Write your own
– Database layer
– Authentication layer
– Push Notification layer
– Comments, Check ins, etc…
– “Fill In The Blank”
• Find your own
– Hosting provider
– Configure and manage servers
– “Fill In The Blank”

13. PaaS, What Do I Get?
• It varies with the vendors but
– REST Based API for all
– Social API Integration, Check in functionality
– Push Notifications
– Custom Code
– Analytics
– Photos
– Chat Integration
– Plus Much Much More!!

14. PaaS, Why Do I Care?
• PaaS Allow You To Focus
– Focus on what matters
– Focus on what differentiates your product
– Focus on value
• These PaaS services are “a
given”, everybody has them your
customers expect them

15. Why Appcelerator & PaaS
• Appcelerator Allows You To Focus
– Focus on what matters
– Focus on what differentiates your product
– Focus on value creating activities
• Appcelerator minimizes the time to
market and the complexities of multiple
teams, technologies & platforms

16. PaaS + Appcelerator
• MVP without Minimal Features
– The combination of Appcelerator and the
PaaS of your choice will reduce time to
market
– Validate your assumptions with minimal cost
– Scale the solution as needed
– Access the mobile & tablet user’s with a rich
feature set

17. Cocoafish+ Appcelerator
• Simple REST based API
• Can be used with oAuth or simple key
access
• Test from terminal using CURL

18. Cocoafish Out of the Box
Features
– Photos – Push Notification
– Checkin – oAuth
– Friends Authentication
– Chat – Custom Objects
– Places – File Storage
– Events – Posts
– Twitter – Reviews
– Facebook – Likes

19. CocoaFish Code Demo

20. StackMob+ Appcelerator
• Simple REST based API
• Can be used with oAuth only
• Testing console
• Development & Production Environments
• Custom Code
• Test from terminal using CURL

21. Stackmob Out of the Box
Features
– Twitter – Development &
– Facebook Production
– oAuth Evnironments
Authentication – Object Relationships
– Custom Objects – Location Based
– File Storage with Queries
Amazon S3
– Analytics
– Reviews

22. StackMob Code Demo

23. Questions
Aaron K. Saunders
aaron@clearlyinnovative.com
www.clearlyinnovative.com
blog.clearlyinnovative.com
@aaronksaunders