Touch 2 will be issued on the gpl3 and sencha commercial license. While the themes are generally just css files you include, they are created using sass and compass ruby gems which precompile css, adding useful features like variables and functions. Sencha also provides some themes to style the components. See sencha help command for more information on a specific command. Chrome has a new flex layout support since version 29.
Linux or mac slice your themes for legacy browsers. When using sencha cmd a rebuild of the application might be required. In this exclusive excerpt from their book on the sencha touch mobile javascript. Use custom button icons in sencha touch techtalktone. Initial work by perdiga with thanks to armode for the help, publicated at sencha forum. The sencha touch sdk contains only the classes which contains the framework, plus examples and docs. You should replace this font with your own custom icon font that only includes the icons that your app will actually use. Fix this issue by changing the rule order of the stbox mixin. Touch1555 fixed switching of themes example on android. The compilation process of themes in ext js apps runs via sencha cmd.
Get handson experience building speedy mobile web apps with sencha touch 2. In part 2, ill focus on more advanced concepts including. In a previous post, i walked through the simple process of creating a custom ui for a toolbar in sencha touch. Explore the incredibly powerful sencha theme engine using sass and. It includes an updated and easier to use api, enhanced mvc, and documentation. Mac users get a break, since ruby is already installed on osx by default. Downloaded the latest sencha sdk and it created a touch2. Downloaded and installed latest sencha sdk tools 2. Previously, scaling icons required a great deal of overhead where the application had to draw the picture for the icon and then redraw, rescale, and change it as the app appeared on different browsers and devices. Creating a custom theme for a sencha touch application. Now, create the folder for your app, ive called it dinmu since that is shorter than the name doineedmyumbrella but its up to you. Sencha expands html5 platform with launch of sencha touch 2. 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.
When developing sencha touch themes, you must keep in mind that there is a significant tradeoff between performance and file size. Sencha touch can be that right tool if you are building a high level mobile application through the web. Sencha touch 2 takes advantage of the widest set of html5 apis for rich app functionality. You can directly switch to one of these themes and use it, or you can extend one of them and modify it.
Sencha touch is a user interface ui javascript library, or web framework, specifically built for the mobile web. Sencha touch, extjs, zend, linux, security, oracle, mysql and much more. Using the cupertino theme in sencha touch joshmorony. Maclionbuntu and macxbuntu and 2 themes for cinnamon macilinux and maclionbuntu, 2 icon sets macibuntu and. Visit the ext js product page to learn about the latest features and release. I am fully able to create custom themes, customize existing themes, implement.
If you needed a list of sencha touch 2 iconcls values, i hope this post has been helpful. Sencha touch comes with an array of beautiful icons for almost every need of your app. Built for enabling worldclass user experiences, sencha touch is the only framework that enables developers to build powerful apps that work on ios, android, blackberry, windows phone, and more. Use sencha touch 2 to enable facebook integration so that html5 apps can go social. Styling the user interface of a sencha touch application. You can read more about he universal app setup in the getting started guide.
However, if youve made a few apps youll realize that not all the icons in the resources folder work in the iconcls. The documentation even denotes this is a static method. Sencha themer provides a prebuilt example app that has many ext js, extangular and extreact components you can theme. Its core functionality for building mobile apps has been merged with ext js, which provides everything developers need to build dataintensive, crossplatform web and mobile applications. Sencha touch javascript html5 swift ios development mac os app. Sencha cmd provides several categories of commands and some global switches. Custom themes are based on default themes included with the ext js sdk. Styling the user interface of a sencha touch application creative. Sencha architect app development is a practical, handson guide that will teach you how to develop a complete application with ext js and sencha touch. Sencha touch installation on mac osx stack overflow. Of course youll probably want to add your own custom icons to your sencha touch app at some point, so here are some resources for that. There are a few more things i did in my spotifext theme to make it look awesome.
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. Model is a static method on the class definition, not an instance. You can read more about this at steve drucker blog changes to sencha touch 2. Sencha touch 2 mobile javascript framework ebook, 20.
It can be used by web developers to develop user interfaces for mobile web applications that look and feel like native applications on supported mobile devices. You can easily theme global variables including base color, background color, font, gradient, and more. Developed so many apps based in different2 functionality and third party frameworks. Ext js is a pure javascript application framework for building interactive cross platform web applications using techniques such as ajax, dhtml and dom scripting. Create sencha touch project with sencha architect 3. In this series we will create the sencha touch 2 version of the notes application, an application that allows its users to take notes and store them on the device running the app. Touch2527 removed the custom getvalue method form checkbox so the proper functionality works as expected and documented. If you want to see the full theme switching at work go to ext js. Lee boonstra is a trainer for sencha, teaching sencha. Once you have installed all of the above requirements for theme building, you can proceed with creating a fully customized theme. How to upgrade a sencha touch app to ext js 6 modern toolkit part 2 jan.
This is an awesome feature, because this offers the following new features. You can use this tutorial to help you build your theme for the sencha application theming contest. Sencha touch provides a base theme that you can customize. Sencha touch has different layouts defined in its library though we. 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. Sencha touch provides a number of themes to be used in your applications. However, you can catch a glimpse of them in this sencha blog post which also mentions sencha touch 2. There is no limit in the complexity of the applications to create, since there is always the chance to include custom scripts made by a developer. In this video, we have put together a demonstration of how easy it is to add themeswitching. Using iconography as steve mentions on his blog, touch sdk ships with the pictos font, and it already loads some basic icons for you to use directly on buttons. In most cases, the first step is to generate an application based on a sencha sdk such as ext js or sencha touch.
Also, at times you may need to make your own app specific icons and personalize your app. The best theme to modify is neptune or the new triton. Sencha touch 2, a html5 mobile application framework, is the cornerstone of the sencha html5 platform. Advanced users may wish to pass in parameters to the java virtual machine vm to customize the runtime environment of openfire. The fix for sdktools898 see below means that packages with extra content in their package.
Sencha touch theming lets you group together css styles as a theme so that you can. Macilinux how to and tutorials sencha touch, extjs. Now that you know the concepts behind sencha touch themes, and have an app to experiment with, it is time to begin building your custom. Would it also be possible to give us a list of all the already available iconcls by default in sencha app. 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. This bundle is released under the mit license and can be used for both ext js and sencha touch. Sencha touch delivers an html 5 framework to mobile devices. Layout is the way the elements are arranged in a container. Facebook integration is one of the many new features in sencha touch 2. Themes let you customize the css in your application for different platforms. Sencha touch, a highperformance html5 mobile application framework, is the cornerstone of the sencha html5 platform.
You will learn everything from creating the project, including creating the models, views, controllers and stores, to the build to production. 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. This framework enables developers to develop thick clients. You can create custom themes by customizing any base theme including material, triton, and ios. Implement and handle forms, and construct a custom theme. Additionally, the theming system is augmented with compass recipes, another open source project david kaneda works on. So heres a playbyplay of what to do this is for windowsi assume mac is similar, just in case you suffer from a similar level of stupidity. Im a fan of minimal design and favour the cupertino theme over the default sencha touch styling, so lets take a look at how we can go about implementing this in our own application. Sencha touch 2 is optimized for the latest tablets powered by apple, android and blackberry.
Just make sure it is the right fit for your project before going. A zoomable image viewer class for the sencha touch 2. Sencha touch 2 mobile javascript framework is a stepbystep tutorial that will show you how to use sencha touch to produce attractive, exciting, nativequality, user friendly, easytouse mobile applications, that will keep your visitors coming back for more. Mac os x theme hi, i work in this moment in a mac os x theme for extjs, when i finish all i put the images and css code, but i show the first result working with this theme style. Download ext js and extract the ext js development kit sdk to a location of your choosing. This maintenance release contains improvements and fixes for many issues reported by our friend in the community. This beta release supported devices running android, and. Ive been trying to install sencha touch 2 on my mac but without any success. Sencha touch themes take sass and compass one step further, by providing variables and mixins whose functionality is specific to sencha touch. Now, open your command line msdos prompt or mac os x terminal. It is built for enabling worldclass user experiences.
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