Kumar - Sencha Touch Cookbook

Ajit Kumar started his IT career with Honeywell, Bangalore in the field of embedded systems and moved on to enterprise business applications (such as ERP) in his 13 years' career. From day one, he has been a staunch supporter and promoter of open source and believes strongly that open source is the way for a liberal, diversified, and democratic setup, such as India. He dreams, and continuously strives to ensure, that architecture, frameworks, and tools must facilitate software development at the speed of thought.

Ajit holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Bihar Institute of Technology, Sindri. He co-founded Walking Tree, which is based out of Hyderabad, India where he plays the role of CTO and works on fulfilling his vision.

Prior to writing this book, he worked on the following titles by Packt Publishing :

I would like to thank my wife Priti for her untiring support, my family, and my team at Walking Tree for their constant motivation, the readers of the first edition of this book for their encouraging feedback, and the team behind the Sencha Touch framework.

Joseph Khan is a Senior Web Developer at GoldSpot Media where he specializes in HTML5 standard mobile web apps, JavaScript/CSS3 standard rich media apps, and other Rich Internet Applications (RIA). Before moving into mobile web development, he was working with Adobe Flex, Action Script, and Flash technologies and developed data visualization and enterprise dashboard-based applications for clients such as Cisco, The World Bank, AADI, and other global organizations. His liking for mobile web development occurred recently and he has been hooked ever since. He also likes Phonegap, PHP, Drupal, and Python.

He has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from N.I.T Silchar, India and has been working on the Web and related technologies for six years.

Besides his regular work he also likes to design cars and motorbikes, ride his Yamaha, and look for good food. Find out more about him and all his work at http://jbkflex.wordpress.com/.

He is also the author of Instant Adobe Edge Inspect Starter , Packt Publishing .

I would like to dedicate this book to my parents and my wife Nilofer without whom I would not have been here, and especially to my 5-month-old baby boy Ayaan.

Michael McCurrey has been working in the software development industry for over 15 years. He has been party to the success of many notable software startups including SalesLogix and Trans-soft. Besides technical editing titles, he works as the Software Development Manager at Ping Golf in Phoenix, Arizona. He lives in Arizona with his wife, Sunni, and their three children Mickie, Zachary, and Daimon.

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Preface

Sencha touch is a versatile HTML5-based framework for developing mobile web applications that look and feel native on touchscreen devices; with it, you can write your code once and deploy it to both iOS and Android, saving you both time and money.

The Sencha Touch Cookbook Second Edition has a comprehensive selection of recipes covering everything from installation right through to HTML5 geolocation.

This book really is your one-stop resource for cross-platform HTML5 application development. It covers the basics such as setting up an iOS, Android, and Blackberry development environment right through to much more complex development issues such as animation, rich media, geolocation, and device features. Every recipe is practically focused. Maximum action. Minimum theory.

What this book covers

, Gear Up for the Journey , covers the steps required to set up the environment to develop, deploy, and test Sencha Touch-based applications.

, Catering to Your Form-related Needs