Developer tools company Appcelerator announced an alliance with the China Software Developer Network, which it said is the largest developer community in China, to build “the next-generation mobile platform for China’s mobile market”.

The work is focused on Appcelerator’s Titanium and Appcelerator Cloud Services technologies, which provide cross-platform development capabilities and agile cloud services.

In a statement, Appcelerator said that while CSDN developers have used Titanium on their own previously, the partnership was formalised “after CSDN member developers reported consistent, significant reduction in development time and costs when developing mobile applications on Titanuim”.

The developer group is also said to see “tremendous value in ACS that integrates services such as push notifications, user logins, photo uploads, check-ins, and status updates easily into apps”. Rather than requiring server programming or “tedious integration with multiple SDKs”, the features can be accessed through a single interface.