Loiane Groner - Sencha Architect App Development

Loiane Groner lives in So 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.

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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Preface

Welcome to Sencha Architect App Development . The goal of this book is to help you learn how to use Sencha Architect to boost your productivity when developing Sencha (Ext JS and Sencha Touch) applications by guiding you through a series of complete examples and tips and tricks.

Sencha Architect is an HTML 5 visual app builder that allows you to create Sencha Touch (mobile) and Ext JS (desktop) applications by dragging-and-dropping components and previewing your application live. All code built in Sencha Architect is designed to be best practice compliant, making it easy to build large applications or simply to learn. And all the code that is generated could be written manually by you, which demonstrates how powerful this tool is.

What this book covers

, Introducing Sencha Architect , introduces Sencha Architect and its interface features such as project basics, the toolbox, the config panel, the project inspector, and the design canvas.

, Creating an Ext JS App , demonstrates how to create a complete Ext JS application using the MVC architecture and Sencha Architect and also how to execute a project for the first time.

, Creating a Sencha Touch App , covers how to create a complete Sencha Touch application using the MVC architecture and Sencha Architect. This chapter also demonstrates how it is possible to integrate a Sencha Touch application with Phonegap.

, Tips and Tricks , explores some valuable tips and tricks that can help a developer on a daily basis when working with Sencha Architect. Some of the topics covered are using third-party plugins, multilingual apps, creating custom components for reuse, and much more.