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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


Imagine how good it would be to build an application which can automatically determine the user mobile location and provide local searches such as suggests places of interest, hotels, nearest police station, and so on. Imagine how the user would feel if, after determining their location, we display the relevant information and the routes on a map, which gives clear directions on how to reach a place. Another example could be providing an application which can tell my average speed while I am jogging or an application which can help track the fleet of trucks, provide a route map which is less congested, send an SOS message to a friend with my location details, and so on.

All of this is feasible and possible with the newly introduced Geolocation specification from the W3 Consortium (http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html).

This specification provides us the required objects, methods, and events to get the location detail and work with it.

In this chapter, we will look at the...