Titanium takes great strides forward

“You can make an app for that.” And it just got much easier.

Appcelerator has just released a new beta of Titanium that has put this small (somewhat unknown) application into a new league that will make it easy to create applications that can be distributed to both the iPhone and Android mobile devices.

The beta is currently limited and you must request to be a tester – they prefer that you have already developed apps for either the iPhone or an Android platform.

I became a huge fan of Titanium when it was first released into its original beta (maybe two years ago) because it was really the open-source equivalent of Adobe’s Air, allowing for desktop application development using HTML, CSS, and Javascript.

Now that they’ve branched out to expand this to mobile devices, they’re going to give Air a run for its money. If you haven’t taken a look at it, you really should.

If I had some time or a great idea to develop an app – this is how I’d do it.