Alongside a number of significant underlying framework changes, there are also significant changes in the way that you bootstrap new applications using sencha cmd. Sencha has just released the much anticipated sencha touch 2. I got everything to work except for the check mark, it disappeared from all default checkboxes after i did away with the default pictos font. Creating mobile apps with sencha touch 2 is a very comprehensive guide for writing datadriven mobile applications, but it begins with the novice in mind. Therefore you need to override this class and not add a. Themes in sencha touch are a powerful way to quickly change the overall look and feel of your application. In a previous post, i walked through the simple process of creating a custom ui for a toolbar in sencha touch. This beta release supported devices running android, and ios on iphone, ipod touch, ipad. Sencha touch 2 mobile javascript framework will provide you with a handson approach to learning the language, taking you through the basic concepts and designs, to building a complete application from scratch. If this is your first visit, you may have to register before you can post. It is a pitty that you dont have a console where you can see it running like you can in terminal with linuxwindows.
It includes an updated and easier to use api, enhanced mvc, and documentation. This chapter focuses on some of the fundamentals of sencha touch such as how to use sencha. Sencha touch development environment and build process. Top 5 tips get started with the latest sencha product releases. Sencha touch supports android, ios, windows phone, microsoft surface pro and rt, and blackberry devices. Confirm that sencha cmd is correctly installed by changing to the sencha touch directory, and entering a sencha command, for example. Nov 25, 20 sencha touch 2 mobile javascript framework will provide you with a handson approach to learning the language, taking you through the basic concepts and designs, to building a complete application from scratch. So heres a playbyplay of what to do this is for windows. Changing the look and feel of your sencha touch app is an important step that you can take to give its users a unique experience. This basetheme is designed as the absolute bare minimum to get your app up and running, and contains no styling beyond what is required for making the framework operate.
In this video, we have put together a demonstration of how easy it is to add themeswitching. Additional improvements were made to the existing blackberry theme. Windows phone 8 and blackberry 10 unfortunately, sencha cmd does not support emulating and packaging apps to windows phone 8 and blackberry 10, although sencha touch 2. It can be used by web developers to develop user interfaces. You can add different themes in place of classic theme and see the difference in the output based on the device we are using for the application. Approaches to creating a custom theme in sencha touch. Sencha touch is a user interface ui javascript library, or web framework, specifically built for the mobile web. How to upgrade a sencha touch app to ext js 6 modern. Sencha touch provides a base theme that you can customize, or builtin themes for sencha touch. We can manually hide the button in the onitemdisclosure before pushing the. Creating a custom theme for a sencha touch application.
Sencha cmd, how to setup an ext js app based on neptune theme. These are just a few of the incredible new set of capabilities were bringing to touch 2. If you are already working with themes what i would suggest you then you can just place the new css code to your wp. I think everyone who deploy a first app on windows phone is facing the same problem.
Jul 18, 20 confirm that sencha cmd is correctly installed by changing to the sencha touch directory, and entering a sencha command, for example. Sencha touch build libraries loads the classes dynamically. Developing html5 mobile apps using sencha touch algoworks. Sencha touch helps in doing so with ease as it provide a number of build libraries to choose from, based on the development or production code along with the facility to create a custom build. The framework uses the windows and blackberry themes to. Filter by license to discover only free or open source alternatives. Sencha touch ships with a default theme and a couple of themes specific to the blackberry and windows phone platforms that provides the look and feel for your app if you do not use a custom theme. This is a weird looking selection from handson sencha touch 2 book. As you know touch sdk ships with the pictos font, and it already loads some basic icons for you to use directly on buttons with iconcls if you want to define more icons from the same pictos fonts, you just have to use the mixin icon. The organization of themes has greatly improved in sencha touch 2. Jun 14, 2016 while sencha touch 2 helps in building html5 mobile web applications, sencha touch offers everything you may need to create the most impressive of apps for ios, android, blackberry, windows and more. The view becomes visible, the navigation bar title is set, a back button is displayed, navigation is handled automatically.
How to reuse ext js models and stores in sencha touch 2. Bootstrapping and theming your app with sencha touch 2. You can see a div with a mytitlebar class which contain another one with the class xtitle. The most important change to be aware of is the move away from using mixins for each component. Sencha touch 2 navigation view, templates and forms. A platform can be a different browser such as chrome, internet explorer 10, or safari, or a device category. Sencha watch results are written to a log file where you can see them.
Default the default theme used for sencha touch projects. Styling the user interface of a sencha touch application. With over 50 builtin ui components and native looking themes for all major mobile platforms, sencha touch provides everything you need to create impressive apps that work on ios, android, blackberry, windows phone, and more. This is an awesome feature, because this offers the following new features. This theme was specifically designed for easy modification and is best as a base for custom themes.
Themes for ext js 6 modern toolkit use the same packages structure as ext js did. I created a workspace from scratch and a package from scratch. Alternatives to sencha touch for windows, web, mac, iphone, android and more. Icon fonts on windows phone sencha touch tech amigos. Touch 2 will be issued on the gpl3 and sencha commercial license. In this tutorial you will learn how sencha touch themes work, and what approaches you can take to create a custom theme for a sencha touch application. Themes let you customize the css in your application for different platforms. Though optional, sencha test can interoperate with sencha cmd 6. Rapidly style ext js applications by creating custom themes using powerful graphical tools without writing code using sencha themer. The magic lies in the fact that the smooth scrolling, fluid animations, and adaptive layout engines help in responding to user actions.
Even if you dont plan to create custom theme packages, theming is more advanced. Extending one of the default themes in sencha touch is also simple. Id like to have a few themes handy for demos so i can easily switch between them. The app is running fine, but where the heck are my icons.
We start with a foundation of javascript basics and work our way through the various components and features of sencha touch. All other devices uses the default sencha touch theme. Top 5 tips get started with the latest sencha product. Get handson experience building speedy mobile web apps with sencha touch 2. While sencha touch 2 helps in building html5 mobile web applications, sencha touch offers everything you may need to. I changed it to the location of the default theme in sencha touch with the all appended.
Sencha touch 2 mobile javascript framework ebook packt. Recently, i posted my version of a time picker in sencha touch 2. On top of all these performance features, sencha touch 2 will be built on the same architecture as ext js 4, so the class system, custom framework builds, and all the robust enterprise features from ext js will be available in touch 2. When the user is viewing the details, the add button should disappear. As you know touch sdk ships with the pictos font, and it already loads some basic icons for you to use directly on buttons with iconcls. Jul 15, 20 changing the look and feel of your sencha touch app is an important step that you can take to give its users a unique experience.
A facebook example which allows you to share when you jog. Are there any default themes that ship with the product. Windows phone 8 and blackberry 10 unfortunately, sencha cmd does not support emulating and packaging apps to windows phone 8 and blackberry 10, although. Oct 30, 2012 sencha just announced the support for windows phone 8 in sencha touch, a high performance html5 mobile application framework. Sass, short for for syntactically awesome stylesheets, is basically an extension of css that allows for lots of cool stuff that we all wish css hadvariables, nesting selectors, functions or mixinsyou know, that. How to upgrade a sencha touch app to ext js 6 modern toolkit part 2 jan 19, 2016. A sencha touch client which allows you to search twitter. Sencha touch provides a number of themes to be used in your applications. Fortunately, there is a much better and far less painful way to customize sencha touch themes. Sencha touch is the leading mvcbased js framework which is used for building crossplatform mobile web applications.
Use firebug or safari or chrome inspector to find out how divs are embedded in the dom here is what i have if i inspect the title of a titlebar. Since theming in sencha touch and extjs 4 are extremely similar, i thought id walk through the same process, but with an extjs 4 flair. Sencha just announced the support for windows phone 8 in sencha touch, a high performance html5 mobile application framework. Application styling architect 3 sencha documentation. I noticed that the theme code is missing from the kitchensink in the final version of st2. How to upgrade a sencha touch app to ext js 6 modern toolkit. In addition to the support for the platform, a new theme is available that. In older versions of ext js and sencha touch, the sass stylesheets were compiled on. The first chapter, a simple task list, walks us through creating a simple todo list application. The following themes are available for sencha touch projects. We will cover the installation process a bit later in this chapter, but we do need to lay a bit of groundwork before we can get started.
Creating a custom theme for a sencha touch application dzone. You can read more about this at steve drucker blog changes to sencha touch 2. The new default theme and any new themes are then built on top of that base. In part 1 of this blog post series, i discussed the changes in ext js 6. Sencha cmd integration can be disabled even if you are using sencha cmd. With this release we have done considerable internal refactoring to support the the latest sencha touch beta as well as add cordova integration and the new sencha app watch command. This theme provides support for the blackberry action bar.
We have abstracted our default theme into a base which consists of only the basic colors and layout of all components. Sencha touch 2, a html5 mobile application framework, is the cornerstone of the sencha html5 platform. An facebook example with phone and tablet views backed by node. Sencha touch and ext js are best suited when desktop and mobile offerings will differ substantially. Icon fonts on windows phone sencha touch 2 comments. A platform can be a different browser such as chrome, internet explorer 10, or safari, or a device category such as android, ios, blackberry 10, windows phone, or microsoft surface pro or rt. Sencha touch is a product of sencha, which was formed after popular javascript library projects ext js, jqtouch and raphael were combined. With this book, youll learn how to build a complete touch application, called find a cab, that has the look and feel of a native app on android, ios, windows, and blackberry devices. Compact overview of many sencha touch components with both a phone and tablet view. Ext js themes use sass, which stands for syntactically awesome stylesheets, and. How to theme sencha touch with sass on windows francis.
This is great, because it means that you can extend from your own theme packages, and you can generate custom themes with sencha cmd. The official set of extensions is offered through sencha touch bundle. If you look on the right you can see that the color attribute is carried by the xtitle css class. These themes augment the existing sencha touch default and windows phone themes. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. Then i created a package called foo using sencha generate package command.
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