RapidDev - Develop Titanium apps at the speed of the web!
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RapidDev is a tool designed to enhance the development of Titanium apps, enabling fast live reload and testing without significant performance loss. The tool operates by building a native app configuration and utilizes specific modules to reload rapidly, improving the overall app development experience. Future enhancements may include Android support and additional command-line integration.
RapidDev - Develop Titanium apps at the speed of the web!
- 1. Develop Titanium apps at the speed of the web! Welcome to RapidDev! Welcome to RapidDev! Develop Titanium apps at the speed of the web! Matt Apperson - Apperson Labs founder May 10, 2014 appersonlabs.com
- 2. Who Am I? • Owner of Apperson Labs • Formerly an engineer at Appcelerator • Born from PHP • Father & husband
- 3. • We work white label with agencies 75% of the time • Mobile is our life blood • Specialize in Titanium • Native? Yea we do that! • NodeJS is great too! • Lovers of open source Who we are
- 4. Some companies we work with…
- 5. Agencies we partner with…
- 6. For too long… Mobile dev SUCKED
- 7. We had some options… ! ‣ Live reload ‣ Near instant deploy ‣ REPL to test ‣ Easy to share ‣ Freely available and open source ! ! ‣ 5 sec - 1+ min reloads ‣ deploy takes hours ‣ Compile code ‣ TestFlight is the best?
- 8. What if native/Ti had the Flexibility of web
- 9. Don’t we have this already?Don’t we have this already? TiShadow LiveView ‣ The original instant reload ‣ JS / compiler based ‣ Has REPL ‣ Is free/OSS ‣ Provided by Appc ‣ JS + native ‣ Integrated with studio ‣ Support provided via Appc platform RapidDev ‣ 100% native ‣ Use any unit testing framework ‣ ZERO JS code changes/insertions ‣ is free/OSS ‣ Feels, acts & behaves exactly like using Titanium
- 10. How RapidDev works •Builds a base native app with any required modules, and ALL the core Ti code • Uses a module to change file paths to read from the document directory • Opens a socket connection to your dev computer •Files transfer over on save and reloads the app, clearing caches •Use ANY testing framework, even your own
- 11. How RapidDev does NOT work… •No JS was changed/hacked/replaced •No requests had to be made to the server on file load •No performance loss •No extra abstraction •Just like a regular native Ti app. Making testing & debugging easier and more reliable
- 12. How to install RapidDev $ npm install rapiddev -g *You might need to use sudo…
- 13. Live Reload
- 14. So easy to use $ ti build --p iOS --rd
- 15. Want to stop using RapidDev? $ ti build --p iOS
- 16. Dev Directory
- 17. No need to add/remove files…
- 18. Unit Testing
- 19. Running unit tests ti build --p iOS --test ti build --p iOS --test --rd ti build --p iOS --test “login”
- 20. RapidDev is not perfect (yet!) 1) No android support… 2) No REPL 3) Only works via the Ti CLI 4) It does not have it’s own logo :(
- 21. What comes next? More then live reload…
- 22. ANDROID SUPPORT!!! •Harder then expected to do in native Java •Will use a modified “fastdev” •Will match RapidDev for iOS features
- 23. CLI / REPL SupportRapidDev.next $ • Be able to do things like: $ ti exec file.js -p iOS • Run arbitrary code such as $ ti repl > alert(‘run code in active app’); • Some native modules need a full app to test or need to run on device… $ ti full-build • Run RapidDev in server only mode $ rapiddev start
- 24. RapidDev (Current Protocol) File change Copy file Reload app All files changed Copy one file Reload app Vanilla Titanium App CoffeeScript & Alloy Apps
- 25. RapidDev.next (Improved Protocol) All Titanium Apps File change Copy file Reload app Are there more files? NO YES Confirm receipt
- 26. To instantly return to where you were *Checkout the Apperson Labs / Codex Labs workshop tomorrow at 4:30
- 27. RapidDev “Instant Return” ti build --rd --return “Rating”
- 29. Develop Titanium apps at the speed of the web! Welcome to RapidDev! matt@appersonlabs.com appersonlabs.com @appersonlabs / @mattapperson