Mobile #gamification with Appcelerator Titanium and Javascript. (Part 1)
We recently held a gamification hackathon at Bunchball, and the results were amazing. Kasey McCurdy, superstar Bunchball front-end engineer, built a gamified mobile app in oh, about 18 hours. And now he’s letting you in on his secrets at WorkWithKasey.com. Want to work with engineers like Kasey? Then come Work For Bunchball.
BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE! (My first experience with mobile)
A few years ago, I got to write my first mobile app using Objective-C and XCode. It was an incredibly simple app for the best Pitchman in the land, Billy Mays. The one thing I remember was the learning curve. To effectively develop for iOS, you need to understand a vast ecosystem of technologies and concepts that involved more than just Objective-C, Cocoa Touch, and XCode.
The concepts are still important, and you’ll learn them later, but they can certainly be intimidating when you just want to get started with a simple (or as complex as you want) app.
All I wanted to do was write a simple app to enable people to outfit themselves with the legendary beard and blue shirt, so that they might feel an ounce of his awesomeness. It took me 3 months of hacking away at night in my free time…thats like a year in internet time.
Now, I don’t want this to sound like I am or was afraid to learn something new, or that the iOS platform is impossible or not developer-friendly. In fact, I tend to sink my teeth into anything new and exciting, and I still think there are many scenarios where it makes sense to go with platform-specific languages and frameworks. The rub was that just that to get the simplest of apps up and running was like climbing Everest just to see if you like snow…there might just be easier and more efficient ways to do it.
For a few years, I hacked away with Objective-C and never really fell in love with it. Then Titanium from Appcelerator came along…
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