Is Titanium appcelerator worth it for developing c

Question

I want to build a mobile/tablet application whose core feature will be taking pictures with the camera , viewing pictures and receiving notifications. Also I want to target iphone, ipad and android platforms.

Titanium appcelerator piqued my interest because of its cross platform appeal. However I am concerned because I've read mixed reviews on SO and other sites. The things that worry me are:

• Subpar android support
• Camera support not fully capable (e.g ios 4.1 HDR capability)
• Camera support buggy

The nightmare scenario for me would be to invest time in titanium only to discover later on that its a major PITA and drop it and go "native"

Please share your thoughts and experiences.

Answer 1

Has anyone highlighted the cost off titanium.

I was contacted by them today and if you are more than a one man band you have to sign up for a partnership program else you are held liable for breech of contract if you release the app.

The partnership program is £5000 which is far to much for us as a start up company when it's our first application, we are currently looking for a different option now.

Answer 2

We have been using Titanium in one of our projects for around 2 months, and frankly speaking our experience with Titanium is too bad.

As per my opinion, below are some major drawbacks of Titanium:

1) First thing is you will not get debugging support at all (We can understand how debugging require in any of the project and in any of the technologies).

2) Titanium is NOT fully supporting all the features of Android/iPhone; beyond some level it will not give you support.

3) Comparing with Android/iPhone SDK, developers will get very less amount of help from the internet and API library (Titanium provides the API library help file).

These are the general issues that end developers face while dealing with Titanium and I suppose sometimes it will be tedious and frustrating work for them.

If the functionality of your application is somewhat like displaying data from the web (like many news, media type apps) then Titanium is the suitable option; otherwise not.