Sencha Architect App Development

120 Pages·2013·2.53 MB·English

by  Loiane Groner

Table of Contents
Sencha Architect App Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Introducing Sencha Architect
Getting started
Presenting Sencha Architect
Running Sencha Architect for the first time
The toolbar
The toolbox
The config panel
The canvas
The visual editor
The code editor
The project inspector
Online documentation
Logs
Preparing the environment
Summary
2. Creating an Ext JS App
Implementing the Ext JS app
Creating the project
A quick word about MVC
Configuring the app
Creating the model
Creating the store
Creating the books grid
Creating the viewport
Linking the grid to the viewport
The output so far
Creating the controller
The final project structure
Summary
3. Creating a Sencha Touch App
Implementing the Sencha Touch app
Creating the project
Configuring the app
Creating the model
Creating the store
Creating the contacts proxy – PhoneGap
Creating the list view
Creating the controller
Adding PhoneGap
The final project structure
Summary
4. Tips and Tricks
Exporting and importing an existing project
Using Sencha Architect with Eclipse
Creating a custom component for reuse
Adding HTML code to app.html
Using third-party plugins (non-native plugins)
Creating multilanguage apps
Creating util and custom classes
Working with sub-packages
Summary
5. Working with Resources
The Library resource
Setting the local SDK
Upgrading projects
Native themes
Creating/linking CSS and JavaScript files
Working with Google Maps
Working with custom themes
Summary
6. Simulating, Building, Packaging, and Deploying an App/Project
Previewing, publishing, and building a project
Previewing a project
Publishing a project
Introducing Sencha Cmd and Sencha Architect
Emulating a Sencha Touch app
iOS
Troubleshooting
Android
Packaging (native) a Sencha Touch App
iOS
Android
Windows Phone 8 and Blackberry 10
Summary
Index
Sencha Architect App Development
Sencha Architect App Development
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Credits
Author
Loiane Groner
Reviewer
Michael Barry
Acquisition Editor
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Commissioning Editor
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Technical Editors
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About the Author
Loiane Groner lives in São Paulo, Brazil and has over 8 years of software
development experience. While at university, she demonstrated great interest in
IT. She worked as a teaching assistant for 2 and a half years specialising in
teaching algorithms, data structures, and computing theory. She represented
her university at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest,
Brazilian Finals (South America Regionals), and also worked as Student
Delegate of SBC (Brazilian Computing Society) for 2 years. She won a merit
award in her senior year for being one of the top three students with the best
GPAs in the Computer Science department and also graduated with honors.
She has already worked at multinational companies, such as IBM. Her areas of
expertise include Java SE, Java EE, and also Sencha technologies (Ext JS and
Sencha Touch). Nowadays, she is working as Software Development Manager
at a financial institution, where she manages overseas solutions. She also
works as an independent Sencha consultant and coach.
She has also authored books such as ExtJS 4 First Look and Mastering JS for
Packt Publishing.
She is passionate about Sencha and Java, and is the CampinasJUG
(Campinas Java Users Group) leader and ESJUG (Espirito Santo Java Users
Group) coordinator, both Brazilian JUGs.
She also contributes to the software development community through her
blogs: http://loianegroner.com (English) and http://loiane.com (Portuguese-BR),
where she writes about IT careers, Ext JS, Sencha Touch, Spring Framework,
and general development notes, and also publishes screencasts.
I would like to thank my parents for giving me an education, guidance, and
advice through all these years and helping me to be a better human being
and professional. A very special thanks to my husband for being patient and
supportive and giving me encouragement. Also a big thanks to my friends
and readers for 
all the support.
About the Reviewer
Michael Barry has been a professional web developer since his retirement as
a Computer Forensics Analyst in 2009. Over the years, he has worked with
many different technologies on projects ranging from public websites and web
applications to large intranet content management systems. Although he has
never considered himself a specialist in any particular field other than the
general topic of web technology, lately he has devoted most of his time to the
Sencha JavaScript libraries and Sencha Architect. Currently, he is heading his
own company (tundarum.com) where he designs and builds flexible web-based
interfaces for data-processing applications using ExtJS and Sencha Touch.
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