Since its initial launch, Sencha Touch has quickly become the gold standard for developing rich mobile web applications with HTML5. Sencha Touch is the first HTML5 mobile JavaScript framework that allows you to develop mobile web apps that look and feel like native apps on both iPhone and Android touchscreen devices. Sencha Touch is the world’s first application framework built specifically to leverage HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript for the highest level of power, flexibility and optimization. It makes specific use of HTML5 to deliver components like audio and video, as well as a localStorage proxy for saving data offline. Sencha Touch also makes extensive use of CSS3 in its components and themes to provide an incredibly robust styling layer, giving you total control over the look of your application.
Sencha Touch enables you to design both Apple iOS and Google Android apps without the need for learning multiple arcane programing languages. Instead you can leverage your existing knowledge of HTML and CSS to quickly create rich web applications for mobile devices in JavaScript. This book will show you how you can use Sencha Touch to efficiently produce attractive, exciting, easy-to-use web applications that keep your visitors coming back for more.
Sencha Touch Mobile JavaScript Framework teaches you all you need to get started with Sencha Touch and build awesome mobile web applications. Beginning with an overview of Sencha Touch, this book will guide you through creating a complete simple application followed by styling the user interface and the list of Sencha Touch components explained through comprehensive examples. Next, you will learn about the essential touch and component events, which will help you create rich dynamic animations. The book follows this up with information about core data packages and dealing with data and wraps it up with building another simple but powerful Sencha Touch application.
In short, this book has the step by step approach and extensive content to make a beginner to Sencha Touch into an ace quickly and easily.
Exploit Sencha Touch – a cross-platform library aimed at next generation, touch-enabled devices
What you will learn from this book
Make use of technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3 to provide native-quality application experiences without the need for plugins
Create a sample application using Sencha Touch that will run on Apple iOS and Google Android
Efficiently use the list of components available in Sencha Touch framework libraries such as tab panels, scrollable list views, and toolbars
Add custom touch events like tap, double tap, swipe, tap and hold, pinch, and rotate
Discover the rich event communication that is available in every Sencha Touch component, allowing you to quickly respond to your users and create intuitive, native-quality applications
Completely control the look of your application with Sencha Touch themes and styling options.
Quickly put together simple components backed by the data package
Allow your users to store information with forms, or access remote information from other services like Google maps and Flickr
Learn about web storage features to store data offline, or communicate with online databases for richer storage options.
Explore expert topics like syncing data and compiling applications for sale on an App store.
Approach
This book is a step-by-step tutorial aimed at beginners to Sencha Touch. There is ready sample code explained with essential screenshots for better and quicker understanding.
Who this book is for
This book is ideal for anyone who wants to gain the practical knowledge involved in using Sencha Touch mobile web application framework to make attractive web apps for mobiles. If you have some familiarity with HTML and CSS, then this book is for you. This book will give designers the skills they need to implement their ideas, and provides developers with creative inspiration through practical examples. It is assumed that you know how to use touch screens, touch events, WebKit on mobile systems, Apple iOS, and Google Android for Mobiles.
