Hybrid applications frameworks are becoming a more popular option for mobile developers. The defining characteristic of a hybrid mobile application is that it is written using Web technologies — HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — but it executes as a native application on a mobile device. In this series of articles on mobile development for Domino developers, I’ve covered a hybrid application framework from Research In Motion (BlackBerry WebWorks) and an open source hybrid application framework called PhoneGap. Now I’ll show how to use Appcelerator Titanium, a variant on the hybrid application approach to building mobile applications. Titanium is a little different from the other hybrid frameworks in that, instead of requiring you to use HTML as the main format for your application’s content, it typically allows you to write your application entirely in JavaScript. I’ll walk you through the steps for building a mobile application with Titanium that consumes a Domino RESTful service to display contact information from a Domino Directory.

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