An MVC development framework built on top of Appcelerator Titanium for the purpose standardization of rapid application development. Alloy supports an abstracted view / controller paradigm for User Interface development seperating business logic from the graphical aspects of the mobile app, while also supplying a standardized mechanism for handling and binding data to the app and associated controllers.
Stands for Application Programming Interface which can be client side or server side functions which allow other programs to interact with the core features, gather data or perform business logic tasks and workflows on the underlying system.
The plural for API (Application Programming Interfaces)