July 2014
Intermediate to advanced
344 pages
7h 33m
English
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Preface
This book helps you gain hands-on experience with Sencha Touch 2.3. You can use the code techniques explored here as a starting point for your own projects.
Over the course of this book, you will build a single application: the FindACab app. With this mobile app, a user can search for and call nearby taxis. The book will cover all of the fundamentals of Sencha Touch, including:
- Scaffolding a mobile app with Sencha Cmd
- Learning the Sencha essentials, the class system, and events
- Mastering the Sencha layout system
- Working with the Sencha Model-View-Controller (MVC)
- Sending/retrieving external content
- Loading/saving data offline
- Implementing Sencha view components
- Using and handling forms
- Styling a Sencha Touch application with Sass and Compass
- Building a package for testing or production
- Creating a native package with Sencha Cmd and PhoneGap
Why Sencha Touch?
Sencha Touch is based on Ext JS and has roots in JQTouch and Raphael (a JavaScript/SVG framework for cross-browser vector graphics on the Web). Unlike jQTouch or jQuery Mobile, however, it’s not dependent on jQuery. By abstracting the differences in underlying hardware and mobile operating systems, Sencha Touch can push apps from a single code base to different platforms such as iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows 8, and more.
Sencha Touch is serious app development, and is great for building large and complex (enterprise) apps that look and behave like native touch applications. I think Sencha Touch is the best ...
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