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Sencha Touch Cookbook

By : Ajit Kumar
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Sencha Touch Cookbook

By: Ajit Kumar

Overview of this book

Sencha touch is a versatile HTML5-based framework for developing mobile web apps that look and feel native on touch screen devices, and 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 has a comprehensive selection of recipes covering everything from installation right through to HTML5 geo location. The Sencha Touch Cookbook really is your one stop resource for cross platform HTML5 application development. It covers the basics such as setting up an iOS and Android development environment right through to much more complex development issues such as touch gestures, animation, rich media and geo location. Every recipe is practically focused. Maximum action. Minimum theory.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Sencha Touch Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


When it comes to building mobile applications, there is one special case that is different to the mobile application from today's desktop applications—offline mode or the flight mode . However, this offline mode has been there on desktop applications for some time, where we had intermittent or slow network connections. However, they are now more common to the mobile world. This mode means the mobile is not on the network and does not have access to the WLAN or GPRS data connection.

There are several cases where it is necessary for an application to have an offline presence. For example, imagine that you are field maintenance staff and you work in areas where there is no network coverage. However, you need to carry the list of customers, their orders, and the order details containing the list of products the customer has ordered, their quantity, prices, and so on. As field maintenance staff, you are expected to fulfill the order, collect the payment, and issue a receipt to customers...