What is Appcelerator?
Appcelerator is the first mobile platform to combine the flexibility of open source development technologies with the power of cloud services.
Appcelerator is a tool in the Mobile Backend category of a tech stack.
Who uses Appcelerator?
Companies
13 companies reportedly use Appcelerator in their tech stacks, including fullstack, LilyPad, and Folk Labs.
Developers
39 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Appcelerator.
Appcelerator Integrations
New Relic, Red Hat OpenShift, Urban Airship, Crittercism, and Hipmob are some of the popular tools that integrate with Appcelerator. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with Appcelerator.
Pros of Appcelerator
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Appcelerator's Features
- Library of over 20 pre-built common services that are both proven and robust, to reduce integration time and risk, services such as push notification, status updates, photo storage, and social integration, or create your own custom cloud services.
- Client-side APIs for any development platform (e.g. Titanium, iOS SDK, Android SDK)
- Extensibility enabling you to build your own custom cloud application development services in Node.js on the Appcelerator cloud for all your mobile apps.
Appcelerator Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Appcelerator?
Xamarin
Xamarin’s Mono-based products enable .NET developers to use their existing code, libraries and tools (including Visual Studio*), as well as skills in .NET and the C# programming language, to create mobile applications for the industry’s most widely-used mobile devices, including Android-based smartphones and tablets, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
Android Studio
Android Studio is a new Android development environment based on IntelliJ IDEA. It provides new features and improvements over Eclipse ADT and will be the official Android IDE once it's ready.
React Native
React Native enables you to build world-class application experiences on native platforms using a consistent developer experience based on JavaScript and React. The focus of React Native is on developer efficiency across all the platforms you care about - learn once, write anywhere. Facebook uses React Native in multiple production apps and will continue investing in React Native.
Ionic
Free and open source, Ionic offers a library of mobile and desktop-optimized HTML, CSS and JS components for building highly interactive apps. Use with Angular, React, Vue, or plain JavaScript.
PhoneGap
PhoneGap is a web platform that exposes native mobile device apis and data to JavaScript. PhoneGap is a distribution of Apache Cordova. PhoneGap allows you to use standard web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript for cross-platform development, avoiding each mobile platforms' native development language. Applications execute within wrappers targeted to each platform, and rely on standards-compliant API bindings to access each device's sensors, data, and network status.
