Appcelerator vs Android SDK

Question

I have been looking at appcelerator it seems pretty fine! Without a doubt, one of the advantages of appcelerator is its support for multi-platform. I am interested in building a

Answer 1

If you only focus on develop apps for Android platform, I recommend you should use native Android (Eclipse + Android SDK as you said) instead Titanium.

Reason: Titanium is suitable if

1. You want to develop apps quicly, or

2. Your apps is simple, or

3. You see Java is so difficult (maybe :p ), so you choose the easier (Javascript of Titanium).

And here is the reasons why you should use native Android instead Titanium:

1. You want to develop a complex app, or

2. You want to customize app appearance. It's very important. Imaging you make an app for client, and they need their app to be customized for more eye-catching. Choosing Titanium means you must use their control, which lacks of ability to customize. It'd be better if using native Android that you can customize everything you want.

Answer 2

I think you are onto a good start using Appcelerator, since it uses JavaScript, etc. Easy to learn, but good examples. It will also enable you to use the same code and reach iPhone,iPad apps. Learning to use just the Android SDK is more complicated. Even then you still need to develop later iPhone etc apps. If you come from a web background this makes sense. There are good video's for quick learning. Good Luck