Titanium CLI alloy execution location - appcelerator

I recently wrote a small hack to enable writing Titanium apps with TypeScript (https://github.com/developer82/Ti.TypeScript). This involves editing the SDK alloy compiler script.
As you can tell from what I've written the script is located at /Users/YOUR_USERNAME/.appcelerator/install/SDK_VERSION/package/node_modules/alloy/Alloy/commands/compile/index.js
When I run my project from Titanium Studio it works great. However when I try to run from command line using ti build -p ios I'm getting an error This project requires the TypeScript hack in Titnaium SDK - which is a validation I wrote that the hack was applied to the compiler.
The reason for this is that running from command line, the CLI is looking for alloy in /usr/local/bin/alloy - I learned that from the following output:
[INFO] Executing Alloy compile: /usr/local/bin/node /usr/local/bin/alloy compile /Users/ophir/Documents/Appcelerator_Studio_Workspace/MY_PROJECT/app --config platform=ios,version=0,simtype=none,devicefamily=universal,deploytype=development,target=simulator
Why the different location? Why the CLI doesn't work like Appcelerator Studio? how can I make it work like Appc Studio?

Solution turned up to simpler than I thought... instead of using ti command I started using appc command:
appc run --platform iphone --liveview
I think ti is the open source version (which uses the alloy installed from node) and appc is the Appcelerator platform (that's what Appcelerator Studio runs).

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Seems Alloy was not installed in your system for any reason which is quite odd. But here you can install it using command-line/terminal by running this command :
sudo npm install -g alloy
After successfully installing Alloy, you can check for its version using below command:
appc -v mine is Alloy version 1.10.7
You can also check for Alloy installation in your Studio About section as shown in screenshot.
Select About Axway Appcelerator Studio -> Installation Details -> Plug-ins

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I installed Android Studio and the Android SDK, aswell Java 8. Then did:
ionic cordova platform add android
Then, when I write...
ionic build android
... I get the following error:
cordova build android ✖ Running command - failed!
[ERROR] Cordova encountered an error.
You may get more insight by running the Cordova command above directly.
[ERROR] An error occurred while running cordova build android (exit
code 1):
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JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\java\jdk1.8.0_121
Error: Could not find an installed version of Gradle either in Android Studio,
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open Start Menu, type path and hit Enter
System Properties will open. On the bottom click Environment Variables...
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C:\ProgramData\Titanium\mobilesdk\win32\5.2.2.GA\module\android\build.xml:165:
no executable specified
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Ant
Eclipse Java Development Tools plugin
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