Sencha Touch in Action

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.

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

Table of Contents
PART 1 INTRODUCTION TO SENCHA TOUCH
• Introducing Sencha Touch
• Using Sencha Touch for the first time
• Sencha Touch foundations
PART 2 BUILDING MOBILE USER INTERFACES
• Mastering the building blocks
• Toolbars, buttons, and docked items
• Getting the user's attention
• Data stores and views
• Working with forms
• Maps and media
PART 3 CONSTRUCTING AN APPLICATION
• Class system foundations
• Building Sencha Touch applications