Environment Setup

Titanium builds native apps, so it needs the native toolchains: Google's for Android, Apple's for iOS. Setting up installs those, then the Titanium CLI and SDK.

Budget an hour on a clean machine. Most of it is downloads.

Start here

Follow the page for your operating system. Each one covers that machine end to end: Node.js, a JDK, the Titanium CLI and SDK, and the native tooling.

• Linux (Android only)
• macOS (Android and iOS)
• Windows (Android only)

Why macOS is different

iOS builds require macOS. Apple ships Xcode only for macOS, and Xcode compiles, signs and installs iOS apps. No cross-platform framework works around this.

Android builds work on all three. If you are on Windows or Linux and need iOS later, you need access to a Mac at that point.

When you are done

ti info reports a working Android SDK, a working Xcode if you are on macOS, and no errors. It is worth running again whenever a build starts failing for no visible reason.

IDE Integration is optional and comes next if you use Visual Studio Code. Otherwise go straight to your first app.