Sencha Touch Cookbook

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Sencha Touch Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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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

Chapter 1. Gear up for the Journey

Introduction

Setting up the Android-based development environment

Setting up the iOS-based development environment

Setting up the Blackberry-based development environment

Setting up the browser-based development environment

Setting up the production environment

Detecting the device

Finding information about features that are supported in the current environment

Initializing your application

Tweaking your application to configure itself using profiles

Responding to the orientation change

Chapter 2. Catering to your Form Related Needs

Introduction

Getting your form ready with FormPanel

Working with search

Putting custom validation in the e-mail field

Working with dates using DatePicker

Making a field hidden

Working with the select field

Changing the value using Slider

Spinning the number wheel using Spinner

Toggling between your two choices

Checkbox and Checkbox group

Text and TextArea

Grouping fields with FieldSet

Validating your form

Chapter 3. Containers and Layouts

Introduction

Keeping the container lightweight

Working with Panel

Adding items to a container at runtime

Building wizards using CardLayout

Panel docking using DockLayout

Fitting into the container using FitLayout

Arranging your items horizontally using HBoxLayout

Arranging your items vertically using VBoxLayout

Mixing layouts

Chapter 4. Building Custom Views

Introduction

Basic HTML templating using Template

Using XTemplate for advanced templating

Conditional view rendering using XTemplate

Designing a custom view using DataView

Showing the filtered data

Responding to the user action

Chapter 5. Dealing with Data and Data Sources

Introduction

Creating models

Loading the form using a data model

Working with Store

Converting incoming JSON data into models using JsonReader

Converting incoming XML data into models using XmlReader

Validations in models

Defining the custom validation

Relating models using association

Persisting session-specific data using SessionStorageProxy

Persisting data using LocalStorageProxy

Accessing in-memory data using MemoryProxy

Loading data through AJAX using AjaxProxy

Sorting of the data

Data grouping

Filtering data

Using a cross-domain URL in your application

Chapter 6. Adding the Components

Introduction

Working with Button

Creating a sheet of buttons with ActionSheet

Carousel

Managing a list of data using List

Grouping items in a List

Navigating through a list of data using indexBar

Working with a list of nested data using NestedList

Picking your choice using Picker

Switching between multiple views using SegmentedButton

Working with Tab panels

Quicker access to application features using Toolbar

Creating a new component

Extending an existing component capability

Overriding a component behavior

Adding behavior to an existing component using plugins

Chapter 7. Adding Audio/Visual Appeal

Introduction

Animate me!

Ding-dong! You have a message!

Working with videos