INSTANT Sencha Touch

By Hiren J. Dave

Get to grips with a new technology, understand what it is and what it can do for you, and then get to work with the most important features and tasks. This book is a practical, step by step tutorial that will get you to use Sencha Touch core components quickly and efficiently.Instant Sencha Touch is for hobbyists who want to explore the capabilities of Sencha Touch. No prior knowledge of Sencha Touch is assumed. This book is simultaneously helpful for developers as well who want to quickly learn about Sencha Touch Framework. The book is structured in such a way that amateurs as well as experts will be able to use it as a reference.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Release date: Oct 25, 2013
• ISBN: 9781782165996

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1. Instant Sencha Touch

So, what is Sencha Touch?

A Sencha Touch application as a web application

A Sencha Touch application as a native application

Installation

Downloading Sencha Touch

Setting up the web server on Mac

Setting up the web server on Windows

Introduction to Sencha Touch SDK

Introduction to the Sencha Touch class system

Defining a class

Defining the configuration of a class

Creating an instance of a class

Installing Xcode

Installing Android SDK

Quick start – building a Hello World application

The Hello World application

Introduction to layouts

Panel – a basic container

The form panel – building rich input forms

Form fields – nifty input fields

The tab panel – a tabbed set of views

The navigation view – a smart way of navigation

Carousels – swipe between views

Introduction to data storage

List – showing a list of data with custom styles

XTemplate – an advanced template class

Top 12 features you need to know about

Animations

Adaptive layouts

Sencha Touch component queries

Event handling

Sencha Touch charts

Offline support

Fetching remote data with Ajax

The MVC structure

Model

View

Controller

Store

A sample application

Theming in Sencha Touch

What is SASS?

Variables

Mixins

Native packaging of Sencha Touch applications

Using PhoneGap Build

Using SDK

Accessing hardware and native APIs

People and places you should get to know

Sencha Touch forum

Sencha Touch App Gallery

Sencha Touch in social media – LinkedIn, Facebook, Google+, Twitter, and Quora

LinkedIn groups

Facebook pages

Google+ page

Twitter pages

Quora page

Sencha Touch blogs

Instant Sencha Touch

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Instant Sencha Touch

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First published: October 2013

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Author

Hiren J. Dave

Acquisition Editor

Rebecca Youe

Commissioning Editor

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Technical Editor

Amit Ramadas

Copy Editor

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Proofreader

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Production Coordinator

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Cover Image

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About the Author

Hiren J. Dave is a software engineer who graduated from Sardar Patel University. He has more than five years' experience in the enterprise software industry. He is currently working as a Technical Head in The Design Shop. Hiren is passionate about researching and learning new technologies. He is also passionate about mobile application development. His expertise lies in developing cross-platform and native mobile application development. He also shares his knowledge with the world through his blog, http://davehiren.blogspot.in.

I would like to thank my family and friends for their support and encouragement.

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