Titanium Mobile # Studio Feature Comparison
# Overview
Axway Appcelerator Studio is an extended version of Aptana Studio (opens new window), the professional, open-source, Integrated Development Environment (IDE) tool for web development. In addition to Aptana Studio's web features, Axway Appcelerator Studio adds the opportunity to develop Titanium Mobile projects.
| Project Type | CSS | HTML | JavaScript | Python | Ruby | Ruby on Rails | PHP | Titanium SDK | Additional Features |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appcelerator Studio |  | | |  | | | | | |
| Aptana Studio | | | | | | | | | |
When updating or adding Eclipse plugins or software, the software repository varies with the version of Studio:
| Appcelerator Studio Version | Eclipse Repository Name | Eclipse Version |
|---|---|---|
| 2.1.x | Helios | 3.6 |
| 3.0.x - 3.1.3 | Indigo | 3.7 |
| 3.1.4 - 3.4.x | Kepler | 4.3 |
| 4.0.0 - 5.x | Luna | 4.4 |
| 6.x - latest | 2019-09 | 4.13 |
# Appcelerator Studio
Appcelerator Studio makes it easy to get started with a mobile project built upon the Titanium SDK to produce professional cross-platform mobile applications. It includes integrated templates, sample applications, and vast amounts of educational material to ensure that you are always building on your skills. It helps you to manage your Titanium projects, including writing, developing and integrating add-on modules, debugging, integrating with cloud services (opens new window), testing, packaging, and deploying. Additionally, Appcelerator Studio helps integrate cloud, automated testing, analytics, and crash reporting services, which can be monitored by the Appcelerator Dashboard (opens new window).
# Aptana Studio
Aptana Studio includes a multitude of web coding features, which aid in the authoring of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and Ruby languages. It supports the latest specifications, such as CSS3 and HTML5, with information about the level of support for each element in the major web browsers, as well as code assist, command completion, and code syntax validation.
It features integrated Ruby and JavaScript debuggers that allow you to set breakpoints, control execution, and inspect variables, which results in a far better understanding of your code in action and quicker bug resolution.
Working seamlessly with the popular Version Control System, Git (opens new window), it facilitates Git-based deployments.
Studio also includes a deployment wizard that provides one of the fastest and easiest ways to publish your applications. It supports all the most widely used protocols, such as FTP, SFTP, FTPS, and Capistrano, and works with Rails and 3rd-party hosting platforms, such as Heroku (opens new window) and Engine Yard (opens new window).