appjs - compile into single executable?

Joe picture Joe · Oct 28, 2012 · Viewed 8.6k times · Source

I've spent all night trying different tools for building cross platform desktop apps via html5 and so far appjs seems to be perfect. I've only been playing around with the windows executable-based demo project but I'm wondering if there is any guide or tutorial on how to convert the project to cross platform executables (single files) instead of the appjs loader executable with all the sources in a subfolder.

I've also tried adobe air however css animations is beyond poor, slow/choppy (might be doing something wrong not sure). A year or so ago I was tinkering with titanium however they've since abandoned compiling for desktop.

All I'm basically doing is loading an external URL (eventually will add in authentication).

Answer

Josiah Hester picture Josiah Hester · Oct 28, 2012

Titanium Desktop (now called TideSDK) is not dead. It has been taken over by the community and is in full swing for a new version coming out this year. There are a good amount of developers working on it, as well as many people from the community contributing example code, documentation, and tutorials.

If your looking for serious cross platform this is a great way to go, as for your executable, it turns the application (using some special build scripts) into a native installer for Window, .DMG file for Mac, and whatever format you need for *Nix platforms.