Sencha Touch in Action

Summary

Sencha Touch in Action is the definitive guide to developing applications with Sencha Touch. You’ll begin with basic design principles for building great mobile applications, and then explore the features of Sencha Touch that bring those ideas to life. You’ll learn how and why objects operate in the framework as you work through several real-world examples. This book also promotes the emerging best practices for mobile web development, from widget implementation to developing an application with the Sencha Touch MVC framework. Updated for Sencha Touch 2.

About the Technology

The Sencha Touch framework makes it easy to build cross-platform mobile apps using HTML5 and JavaScript. It offers numerous features that mimic native mobile APIs and an MVC architecture that feels right at home for application developers. So you get the power and richness of native apps and the convenience of standard web tools.

About this Book

Sencha Touch in Action is a complete guide for developers of native-quality mobile Sencha Touch applications. You’ll explore real-world examples as you master this impressive framework from the ground up. The book shows you good practices for mobile web development, from widget implementation to the structure of MVC applications.

The book requires basic JavaScript skills. It assumes no experience with Sencha Touch or Ext JS.

What’s Inside

• Covers Sencha Touch 2
• Build on your existing web dev skills
• Create mobile web apps that feel like native apps
• Extend enterprise apps to mobile clients

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the Authors

Jay Garcia is a popular speaker, Sencha community advocate, and author of Ext JS in Action. Anthony De Moss is a professional web and mobile developer. Mitchell Simoens is a Sencha developer supporting the Sencha Touch and Ext JS products.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Introduction to Sencha Touch
Chapter 1 Introducing Sencha Touch
Chapter 2 Using Sencha Touch for the first time
Chapter 3 Sencha Touch foundations

Part 2 Building mobile user interfaces
Chapter 4 Mastering the building blocks
Chapter 5 Toolbars, buttons, and docked items
Chapter 6 Getting the user’s attention
Chapter 7 Data stores and views
Chapter 8 Working with forms
Chapter 9 Maps and media

Part 3 Constructing an application
Chapter 10 Class system foundations
Chapter 11 Building Sencha Touch applications