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Creating Mobile Apps with Sencha Touch 2
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Everyone has had the perfect idea for a mobile application. Creating Mobile Apps with Sencha Touch 2 can help you bring that idea to life by providing clear examples, in depth explanations, and walking step-by-step building 10 different Sencha Touch mobile applications. You can use these applications as a base for your own applications or leverage your new skills to create something truly unique.
"Creating Mobile Apps with Sencha Touch 2" offers you 10 different applications complete with source code. The applications include a task manager, RSS feed reader, time tracker, charting application, flash cards, cataloguing, social networking, integration with WordPress, a project workbook, and a basic game. The book also covers working with the Sencha Architect, Sencha.io, and compiling applications with Sencha Command.
Learn the Sencha Touch mobile programming language by building 10 different applications. Each application focuses on a different feature of the Sencha Touch language.
Learn to build a range of applications for mobile devices. Take pictures with your application, create a simple game, or even create an application you can sell on the iTunes app store.
"Creating Mobile Apps with Sencha Touch 2" will help you learn by building, helping you create great applications.
Approach
Full of explained code and enriched with screenshots, this book is the practical way to take your Sencha Touch skills to the next level.
Who this book is for
This book is aimed at people who have a basic to intermediate understanding of Sencha Touch. If you understand the basic concepts, but you need to see how it all fits together, then this book is for you.
Everyone has had the perfect idea for a mobile application. Creating Mobile Apps with Sencha Touch 2 can help you bring that idea to life by providing clear examples, in depth explanations, and walking step-by-step building 10 different Sencha Touch mobile applications. You can use these applications as a base for your own applications or leverage your new skills to create something truly unique.
"Creating Mobile Apps with Sencha Touch 2" offers you 10 different applications complete with source code. The applications include a task manager, RSS feed reader, time tracker, charting application, flash cards, cataloguing, social networking, integration with WordPress, a project workbook, and a basic game. The book also covers working with the Sencha Architect, Sencha.io, and compiling applications with Sencha Command.
Learn the Sencha Touch mobile programming language by building 10 different applications. Each application focuses on a different feature of the Sencha Touch language.
Learn to build a range of applications for mobile devices. Take pictures with your application, create a simple game, or even create an application you can sell on the iTunes app store.
"Creating Mobile Apps with Sencha Touch 2" will help you learn by building, helping you create great applications.
Approach
Full of explained code and enriched with screenshots, this book is the practical way to take your Sencha Touch skills to the next level.
Who this book is for
This book is aimed at people who have a basic to intermediate understanding of Sencha Touch. If you understand the basic concepts, but you need to see how it all fits together, then this book is for you.
348 pages, Unknown Binding
First published April 1, 2013
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September 4, 2014As someone who worked with Sencha Touch when it first came out, it has been fun to watch the steady improvements that have been added over time to make Sencha Touch 2, so I was doubly excited to have the chance to review this book.
Creating Mobile Apps With Sencha Touch 2 is a very comprehensive guide for writing data-driven mobile applications, but it begins with the novice in mind. The first chapter, "A Simple Task List", walks us through creating a simple TODO list application. This chapter focuses on some of the fundamentals of Sencha Touch such as how to use Sencha Architect, which is essentially a WYSIWYG interface for creating Sencha apps.
Chapter 2 is titled "A Feed Reader." It walks us through working with remote data proxies. In addition to walk us through using JSONP, it also introduces more sophisticated options like using YQL to serve up data remotely.
Chapter 3 covers working with Sencha Touch in the command line using the Sencha CMD tool. I had just started using Sencha CMD on a project a few weeks before, so this chapter was especially interesting to me.
The 4th chapter gives us some information on working with Sencha Charts. I haven't had the pleasure of working with Sencha Charts on any of my projects yet, and the last time I had worked with EXT-style charts was 3 or 4 years ago, so I was pleasantly surprised at how easy they are to work with.
Chapter 5 guides us through working with Sencha.io, which is currently a free place where you can deploy Sencha Touch applications into the cloud. The cool thing about Sencha.io is that it handles all of the server-side database interactions for you so that you can totally focus on writing client-side code.
Chapter 6 is about writing APIs that work well with Sencha Touch. It specifically talks about REST-based APIs since the Sencha Touch Ajax proxy is geared toward that.
Chapter 7 is about working with external APIs that you don't write yourself. It specifically focuses on Foursquare and Google Maps.
Chapter 8 is about using profiles, which is an easy way that Sencha Touch has introduced to deal with multiple devices and screen resolutions inside the same app.
Chapter 9 delves into working with the native device camera. It shows you how to capture, store and display images on the mobile device.
The 10th chapter shows how you can even use Sencha Touch to create a functional mobile game. It also provides some great insights into how the Sencha Touch controller can be used.
This is a really helpful book whether you are just starting out with Sencha Touch, or if you have been using it for a while, but would like to improve your skillset. If you have already been using Sencha Touch, you may want to skip over the first few chapters, but there is still plenty to learn in this book.
Creating Mobile Apps With Sencha Touch 2 is a very comprehensive guide for writing data-driven mobile applications, but it begins with the novice in mind. The first chapter, "A Simple Task List", walks us through creating a simple TODO list application. This chapter focuses on some of the fundamentals of Sencha Touch such as how to use Sencha Architect, which is essentially a WYSIWYG interface for creating Sencha apps.
Chapter 2 is titled "A Feed Reader." It walks us through working with remote data proxies. In addition to walk us through using JSONP, it also introduces more sophisticated options like using YQL to serve up data remotely.
Chapter 3 covers working with Sencha Touch in the command line using the Sencha CMD tool. I had just started using Sencha CMD on a project a few weeks before, so this chapter was especially interesting to me.
The 4th chapter gives us some information on working with Sencha Charts. I haven't had the pleasure of working with Sencha Charts on any of my projects yet, and the last time I had worked with EXT-style charts was 3 or 4 years ago, so I was pleasantly surprised at how easy they are to work with.
Chapter 5 guides us through working with Sencha.io, which is currently a free place where you can deploy Sencha Touch applications into the cloud. The cool thing about Sencha.io is that it handles all of the server-side database interactions for you so that you can totally focus on writing client-side code.
Chapter 6 is about writing APIs that work well with Sencha Touch. It specifically talks about REST-based APIs since the Sencha Touch Ajax proxy is geared toward that.
Chapter 7 is about working with external APIs that you don't write yourself. It specifically focuses on Foursquare and Google Maps.
Chapter 8 is about using profiles, which is an easy way that Sencha Touch has introduced to deal with multiple devices and screen resolutions inside the same app.
Chapter 9 delves into working with the native device camera. It shows you how to capture, store and display images on the mobile device.
The 10th chapter shows how you can even use Sencha Touch to create a functional mobile game. It also provides some great insights into how the Sencha Touch controller can be used.
This is a really helpful book whether you are just starting out with Sencha Touch, or if you have been using it for a while, but would like to improve your skillset. If you have already been using Sencha Touch, you may want to skip over the first few chapters, but there is still plenty to learn in this book.
May 28, 2013
This is not a book you want to read if you are newbie to Sencha technologies, but for an intermediate level developer like me, this is pretty good because it has lot of code examples which explain important concepts. This is good book for budding mobile app developers because examples also deals with lot of non-sencha touch stuff like Google Maps, YQL, Sencha IO, Sencha Architect and Foursquare APIs which are very commonly used technologies in mobile apps. The source code package given with this book is awesome and most of the things work well without any tweaks, but the explanation and code snippets in book are off at many places which I hope they will fix it in next versions. Another problem I experienced was the non-linear way of explaining code because of which if you are new developer you would not understand what is the right sequence of writing your code. Go get your copy at http://www.packtpub.com/creating-mobi... if you like to learn by examples because it is one of the few books which uses Sencha Touch 2.1, which is latest stable release.
May 28, 2013
This book covers by creating ten unique applications in Sencha Touch 2. I really enjoyed reading this book and i have learned lot of new things that we can do with the help of Sencha Touch 2.
This book is for those who already has some basic understanding in Sencha Touch and likes to expand his knowledge in Sencha Touch. I really prefer this book for those who want to know the various application that we can develop with the help of Sencha Touch 2. This Book is not for those who want to start Sencha Touch 2.
There are lots of good and interesting information available in this Book for Sencha Touch Developers. Don't Miss it. For more information, Please click the below link
http://www.packtpub.com/creating-mobi...
This book is for those who already has some basic understanding in Sencha Touch and likes to expand his knowledge in Sencha Touch. I really prefer this book for those who want to know the various application that we can develop with the help of Sencha Touch 2. This Book is not for those who want to start Sencha Touch 2.
There are lots of good and interesting information available in this Book for Sencha Touch Developers. Don't Miss it. For more information, Please click the below link
http://www.packtpub.com/creating-mobi...
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