Appcelerator Titanium Application Development by Example Beginner's Guide

Used this book to get started with the concepts of building apps using Titanium. I found it to be a good resource, with the exception of a few chapters where the author skips a few steps or does not explain how something is done.

It's a good book but at the time of this review I wouldn't recommend it until the MVC Alloy examples have been updated. Currently it is using some deprecated UI elements which renders the example obsolete. Alloy is the new recommended way of developing Titanium Apps and this book has some catching up to do.

Great starting book, helped me out. Good working examples, and an amazing price this book was great thank you very much

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Seems like the best Titanium book out there so far. Which is a bit sad. It's a good book, taking you from beginner through to most of the advanced concepts and examples. It's definitely a great reference book for how to tackle a problem. A "Hello, world!" for every problem, which is definitely how it's advertised. I don't like how they say that the Alloy framework is in this book because... it's discussed for six pages. You easily need at least a chapter on Alloy. Not a brief touching and then never mention it again. I understand this is what, the third edition, and it was probably started before Alloy existed, but it's too important. The next edition should have updates to some examples with the inclusion of Alloy and Alloy should have its own chapter.I'd prefer a true best practices book replete with Alloy examples. This does not exist. The Titanium book that you will find that has "best practices" in the title is awful and not recommended. Considering writing my own, but... I don't know the best practices yet.

This book gives some examples, but they are not really useful if you want to learn to use Titanium for your own stuff. The examples are too "pedagogical" and so they loose the overall goal of providing basic knowledge to build upon.