I have previously installed appcelerator on a Win 7 machine but never did much with it. The unique proposal of appcelerator is that it can produce code that can run on multi-platforms and multiple devices from essentially the same code whilst staying native. In other words I can run on windows 7, apple mac OsX lion, iOS, android, windows mobile and behave similarly whilst adopting the functionality that is familiar to the product in use, and is not just a browser app. Appcelerator makes a claim it can be a development environment that can do such.

Initially I wanted to use it for iPad apps and maybe android. So I loaded it to find that to develop iOS apps you cannot bypass the apple system. You still really need to register in the apple developers program and install all the iOS x-code development system. I picked a bad time just as OsX lion and ios5 was due. Anyway I upgraded to the osx lion and also upgraded my iPad to ios5. Still only took 3 attempts and bricking it twice but now it’s upgraded. Many apps don’t work but they will have to catch up soon. iPhone 5 beckons.

So back to the task at hand, loading appcelerator in OsX lion. I am using a mini-mac and download and instal went well, on running the whole system made a large upgrade but still it all went through without my intervention. All is well so far.