The LinkedBytes team has been developing mobile apps for 20 years, since the first mobile terminals allowed small applications to be run in Java MicroEdition. We have experienced (and suffered) firsthand the rise and decline of manufacturers of terminals, peripherals, operating systems, platforms and languages. In 2015 Titanium SDK fell into our hands and when we started using it we realized that it was the tool that we would have wanted to have in our hands to make our work easier.

Titanium SDK is the platform with the longest evolution on the market, despite being largely unknown. This is because its appearance coincided with the launch of hybrid frameworks such as PhoneGap and other frameworks sponsored by large companies such as RhoMobile, Xamarin, Ionic or React Native; clouding the potential that Titanium SDK presents. However, the fact is that Titanium is still current and updated, supporting all the needs in App development and new versions of iOS and Android.

Titanium SDK greatly facilitates the work by allowing you to build an interface in an abstract way, common for iOS and Android, while the logic is implemented in JavaScript, a very widespread and easy-to-use language. Another advantage is that, thanks to the Alloy extension, which allows using Titanium following the MVC pattern, App development is similar to web development. This is something that again leads to confusion, since there are those who think that it is a hybrid tool, that is, that it is a website embedded in a browser. And it is not the case. The Apps generated with Titanium are 100% native.

For us, the greatest benefit of using Titanium is that we can focus on the functionality of the App and ignore the entire compilation process inherent to each operating system. When Apple or Google releases a new version of their operating system, just update the Titanium SDK and make the minimum adjustments so that our Apps support the new iOS or Android. Using Titanium is a competitive advantage for LinkedBytes and our clients. That is why we are sponsors of the development of the framework through donation on GitHub.