Appcelerator buys Cocoafish

Cross-platform specialist set to boost its Titanium platform with cloud-based extras.

Cocoafish's offering lets developers add 25 features to apps including messaging, push notifications, photo uploads, check-ins and other social features, storage, discussion forums and more.

Appcelerator says it will integrate Cocoafish products to its Titanium Platform from Q2 as "Appcelerator Cloud Services”. The platform will have iOS, Android, REST and JavaScript SDKs compatibility for non-Titanium customers and will be priced on a tiered basis.

“Nearly all of our developers and customers have been manually adding cloud service functionality to their mobile applications since we launched Appcelerator’s Titanium Platform three years ago,”  said Appcelerator CEO Jeff Haynie, in the company's release.

“Cocoafish is by far the most complete mobile cloud solution, and combined with the Titanium Platform, Appcelerator is delivering everything a developer needs to build rich, connected applications."

This is Appcelerator’s third acquisition in a year, after swoops for Aptana and Particle Code.