Appcelerator Explained
Appcelerator is a privately held mobile technology company based in San Jose, California. Its main products are Titanium, an open-source software development kit for cross-platform mobile development, and the Appcelerator Platform.
Founded in 2006, Appcelerator serves industries including retail, financial services, healthcare, and government. As of 2014, it raised more than $90 million in venture capital financing.[4]
On February 24, 2021 Axway announced in one of their company blogs that Appcelerator was being discontinued by March 1st, 2022 and they would be releasing their Titanium SDK into open-source[5] [6]
History
Jeff Haynie and Nolan Wright met at Vocalocity, an Atlanta-based voice over IP company that Haynie had co-founded.[7] After Haynie sold Vocalocity in 2006, the pair founded Web 2.0 application development company Hakano.[8]
In 2007, Hakano, renamed Appcelerator, began creating an open-source platform for developing rich Internet applications (RIAs).[9] Marc Fleury, the founder of JBoss, joined the company as an advisor.[10]
In 2008, Appcelerator relocated to Mountain View, California, and later released a preview of its Appcelerator Titanium product, which drew comment as a possible open-source competitor to Adobe AIR.[11] [12]
Appcelerator began to focus on mobile apps in 2009. In June, it released a public beta of Titanium, which added support for Android and iOS app development to its existing web and desktop application features.[13] Titanium 1.0 was released in March 2010.[14]
Appcelerator increased its employee count fivefold between October 2010 and 2011. The company's 2011 revenue totaled $3.4 million, a 374 percent increase from 2008.[15]
Between 2011 and 2013, Appcelerator announced acquisitions, including:
Appcelerator moved to its San Jose headquarters in 2015.
In January 2016, Appcelerator was acquired by Axway,[24] [25] a company that helps enterprises handle data flows.[26]
Products
- Axway Appcelerator Dashboard offers real-time analytics of the lifecycle and success of apps built on the Axway Appcelerator Mobile Solution or directly via native SDK.[27]
- Axway Appcelerator Studio is an open extensible development environment for building, testing and publishing native apps across mobile devices and OSs including iOS, Android.
- Axway API Builder is an opinionated framework for rapidly building APIs with a scalable cloud service for running them.[28] It allows developers to connect, model transform and optimize data for both native or web app clients.[29] API Builder and API Runtime are the backbones of the Axway Appcelerator Platform MBaaS.[30]
- Axway Mobile Analytics is a Mobile Analytics offering that collects and presents information in real time about an application's user acquisition, engagement, and usage.
Titanium
Appcelerator Titanium is an open-source framework that allows the creation of native, hybrid, or mobile web apps across platforms including iOS, Android, Windows Phone from a single JavaScript codebase.[31] [32] As of February 2013, 10 percent of all smartphones worldwide ran Titanium-built apps.[33] As of August in the same year, Titanium had amassed nearly 500,000 developer registrations.[34]
Alloy
Alloy is an Apache-licensed model–view–controller app framework built on top of Titanium that provides a simple model for separating the app user interface, business logic, and data models.[35] [36]
Apps built with Appcelerator products are written in JavaScript. Though initially developed as a Web language, JavaScript is increasingly popular for mobility due to its ability to meet the speed, scale, and user experience requirements that mobile development demands.[37] [38] According to Forrester Research, JavaScript adoption is setting the stage for the "biggest shift in enterprise application development" in more than a decade.[39]
Funding
In December 2008, Appcelerator closed a $4.1 million first venture round led by Storm Ventures and Larry Augustin.[11] [40] Later, in October 2010, the company announced a partnership with PayPal and that it has raised $9 million in Series B funding from investors including Sierra Ventures and eBay.[41]
Appcelerator raised $15 million in Series C funding led by Mayfield Fund, Red Hat, and Translink Capital in November 2011, and a further $12.1 million in a round led by EDBI, the venture fund of the Singaporean government's Economic Development Board, in July 2013.[42] [43] [44]
On August 25, 2014, Appcelerator announced $22 million in Series D funding led by Rembrandt Venture Partners.[45] Total funding for the mobile engagement platform to date is more than $90 million.[4]
Marketing awards
- 2012 The Wall Street Journal: Technology Innovation Award in Software[46]
- 2012 The Wall Street Journal: The Next Big Thing[47]
- 2012 Red Hat Innovation Award Winner: Extensive Partner Ecosystem[48]
- 2012 Momentum Index: 100 Open Source Companies[49]
- 2012 Edison Awards Winner[50]
- 2012 Silicon Valley Business Journal's Best Places to Work in the Bay Area[51]
See also
External links
Notes and References
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- Web site: Perez. Sarah. Titanium 1.0 Launches: Build Native Apps for Desktop, Mobile & iPad. 8 March 2010. ReadWrite.
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- Web site: Taft. Darryl. Appcelerator Releases Titanium Studio IDE for Mobile, Desktop and Web Development. eWeek.
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- Web site: O'Dell. J. Fueled by mobile madness, Appcelerator acquires Cocoafish. 9 February 2012. VentureBeat.
- Web site: Perez. Sarah. Appcelerator Acquires Mobile Cloud Services Startup Cocoafish. 9 February 2012 . TechCrunch.
- Web site: Hesseldahl. Arik. Appcelerator acquires Nodeable, boosts big data. AllThingsD.
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- Web site: Lardinois. Frederic. Appcelerator Makes Its Platform More Flexible With Native SDK Support, API Builder And Updated Analytics. TechCrunch. 17 July 2014 .
- Web site: Nicastro. Dom. Appcelerator Eyes Big Fish in Mobile App Dev Space. CMSWire.
- Web site: O'Donnell. Jake. New MBaaS tool connects mobile apps to back-end services. SearchConsumerization. 10 February 2016 . TechTarget.
- Web site: Preimesberger. Chris. Appcelerator Platform Now Can Build APIs for Apple Watch. eWeek.
- Web site: Titanium . dead . http://web.archive.org/web/20221018043759/https://www.appcelerator.org/#titanium . 2022-10-18 . 2023-12-20 . Appcelerator.org.
- Web site: Paxton. Adam. 2017-06-07. Using JavaScript Promises in Titanium. 2021-06-07. Axway Developer Blog. en-US.
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- Web site: Alcocer. Ricardo. Top 10 tips for building better mobile apps. InfoWorld. 5 May 2015.
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- Web site: Hendrickson. Mark. Appcelerator Raises $4.1 Million for Open Source RIA Platform. 9 December 2008 . TechCrunch.
- Web site: Warren. Christina. Appcelerator and PayPal Team Up for Mobile Commerce. 26 October 2010. Mashable.
- Web site: Perez. Sarah. Appcelerator Raises $15 Million Series C Round. November 2011 . TechCrunch.
- Web site: Ong. Josh. Appcelerator picks up $12.1M to grow its mobile enterprise platform and open Asia HQ in Singapore. 16 July 2013. The Next Web.
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