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Creating Mobile Apps with Sencha Touch 2

By : John Earl Clark, Bryan P. Johnson
Book Image

Creating Mobile Apps with Sencha Touch 2

By: John Earl Clark, Bryan P. Johnson

Overview of this book

<p>Everyone has had the perfect idea for a mobile application. Creating Mobile Apps with Sencha Touch 2 can help you bring that idea to life by providing clear examples, in depth explanations, and walking step-by-step building 10 different Sencha Touch mobile applications. You can use these applications as a base for your own applications or leverage your new skills to create something truly unique.<br /><br />"Creating Mobile Apps with Sencha Touch 2" offers you 10 different applications complete with source code. The applications include a task manager, RSS feed reader, time tracker, charting application, flash cards, cataloguing, social networking, integration with WordPress, a project workbook, and a basic game. The book also covers working with the Sencha Architect, Sencha.io, and compiling applications with Sencha Command.<br /><br />Learn the Sencha Touch mobile programming language by building 10 different applications. Each application focuses on a different feature of the Sencha Touch language.<br /><br />Learn to build a range of applications for mobile devices. Take pictures with your application, create a simple game, or even create an application you can sell on the iTunes app store.<br /><br />"Creating Mobile Apps with Sencha Touch 2" will help you learn by building, helping you create great applications.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Creating Mobile Apps with Sencha Touch 2
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating the Evolver application


The Evolver application takes an RSS feed from a WordPress website and translates the feed into data in a Sencha Touch store. We did something similar in our previous Feedback application with the RSS feed. However, we are going to need a bit of extra help to get all of the information we need out of WordPress.

About WordPress

For those of you who don't know about WordPress, it is a content management system that was initially designed for blogging. WordPress allows a user to easily create posts and pages using simple web-based forms. Posts tend to be shorter, time-sensitive items, while pages contain longer, more general information.

When WordPress began to gain popularity, users quickly began to use it for all kinds of websites from personal, to business and shopping. Current estimates are that the WordPress site numbers somewhere north of 55 million, comprising an estimated 15 to 20 percent of the active websites on the Internet.

With the ease of installation...