Alloy

Not for the faint hearted, and very much at the bleeding edge of Titanium, Alloy is an MVC framework for Titanium. It takes a different approach to the MVC design discussed in the last example of adding CSS files and XML definitions. It is included in this chapter because it is the appropriate place to discuss it, but it is a step above what has been discussed so far. It's aimed at people who are experienced in programming with Titanium. Don't feel you have to read this now; you can come back to it later. The remainder of the book does not refer to it.

Are you still reading? Still interested? Not skipped off to the next chapter? Good, I'll let you into a secret. For some of you, Alloy will be a very natural way to program in Titanium. It is especially suited to people coming from a web development background. Even if you are not then it still is a very fast way to create apps. If you are a web developer, the MVC solution from the previous example possibly didn't feel quite right; it...