Last October, we released the AT&T Appcelerator Titanium module at Appcelerator’s CodeSTRONG event.  With the module we included easy integration of the AT&T APIs, including Speech, SMS, MMS, In-app Messaging, Payment, Location, and more.

In the AT&T Appcelerator Titanium module “Kitchen Sink” sample app we have provided source code to demonstrate the API usage. Before we take a look at a sample Speech API use case from the AT&T Appcelerator Titanium module, make sure you get an access key and secret key by registering on developer.att.com website and creating sample Application.  By registering, you have access to a 90-day free trial, which includes use of all APIs in our sandbox environment, register up to 3 new apps for testing, and get started quickly with our default application, pre-built with app key, secret, and short code.

Want to learn more about what the AT&T Developer Program has to offer developers and some of the things we're currently working on? Ed Schmit recently did a presentation at Appcelerator's Code Strong event and provided details on AT&T APIs, a development demo, guidance on how developers should use current APIs, and thoughts on future APIs.

On October 22^nd AT&T released the Appcelerator® Titanium module at Appcelerator’s CODESTRONG 2012 event. The Appcelerator® Titanium module makes AT&T APIs easily accessible through the Appcelerator Titanium Studio development environment. The AT&T Titanium Mobile SDK significantly reduces the complexity of building applications which utilize AT&T platform services. 

We were delighted to sponsor and participate at CODESTRONG on October 21-23 in San Francisco, an exciting three-day mobile conference hosted by Appcelerator^®. The event featured the Hack to Help hackathon, office hours with Appcelerator engineers, and engaging keynote talks by representatives from Microsoft, Denzo, Open Shift, and the AT&T Developer Program’s very own Acting Executive Director, Ed Schmit. At the event, we introduced developers to the new module that enables AT&T APIs to be accessible through the Appcelerator Titanium platform.

A recent article by Channel Insider emphasized the growing need for mobile application developers due to the skyrocketing demand of customers. According to GlobalLogic president Shashank Sumant, the simple fact of the matter is customers are not sure what platforms will eventually become dominant in the mobile computing space so they want to hedge their bets by supporting them all. While this may seem like a good choice, it takes a considerable amount of resources.

The article’s author, Michael Vizard, says the reality of mobile application development is that solution providers are going to have to have applications that run both natively and on the Web. One of the challenges of this mentioned by Sumant is that cross-platform mobile application development projects require a design-driven approach to application development that most developers still don’t fully appreciate.

Last week we discussed some surprising results that were found in the Q1 2012 Appcelerator/IDC Mobile Developer Report: Seventy-nine percent of mobile developers reported they will integrate HTML5 in their apps this year. According to Fierce Developer author, Jason Ankeny, that's significantly higher than many industry observers anticipated even as recently as late 2011.

Ankeny recently wrote an article about developers giving up on Android. The Q1 Appcelerator/IDC report found that 78.6 percent of developers expressed interest in building apps for Google, down from 87 percent a year ago. According to Ankeny, the reason for this isn’t that people aren’t buying Android devices, it’s that there is an increasing amount of fragmentation in the mobile app market.

A recent article by PC World highlights some interesting statistics that were found in a joint survey from IDC and Appcelerator that queried 2,173 developers between Jan. 25 and Jan. 27: Seventy-nine percent of mobile developers report they will integrate HTML5 in their apps this year.

As more and more developers plan to use HTML5, there is growing alarm regarding the variations in how content is rendered in different browsers. “Appcelerator keeps track of how HTML5 is implemented on browsers that visit its Web site, and comparing a large number of variables, there is a 20 percent to 30 percent difference in how different browsers consume content.” So while HTML5 may seem promising to many developers, fragmentation poses some serious challenges.

Have you ever wondered what the mobile app ecosystem looks like? Well, wonder no more! Sravish Sridhar, Founder and CEO of Kinvey.com, has published a nice chart that documents all of the various players and the connections between them. So how do AT&T, Heroku, AWS, Stackmob, Parse, Buddy, appmobi, Tiggzi, JumpTap and even handset manufactures tie together?...

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