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Offline First Web Development

By : Daniel Sauble
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Offline First Web Development

By: Daniel Sauble

Overview of this book

When building mobile apps, it’s easy to forget about the moments when your users lack a good Internet connection. Put your phone in airplane mode, open a few popular apps, and you’ll quickly see how they handle being offline. From Twitter to Pinterest to Apple Maps, some apps might handle being offline better—but very few do it well. A poor offline experience will result in frustrated users who will abandon your app, or worse, turn to your competitor’s apps Expert or novice, this book will teach you everything you need to know about designing and building a rigorous offline app experience. By putting the offline experience first, you’ll have a solid foundation to build upon, avoiding the unnecessary stress and frustration of trying to retrofit offline capabilities into your finished app. This basic principle, designing for the worst-case scenario, could save you countless hours of wasted effort.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Offline First Web Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Implementing mapping support


The map is the other big chunk of functionality that's currently missing. When you create a new to-do item, you should have the option to select a point on the map. When you near this point, your phone will remind you of the related item on your to-do list.

Creating a custom map component

As with the image selector, we'll create a custom map component to replace the temporary fieldset that we created when we were mocking the views. Create a new file in todo-app/app/view/ named Map.js and give it the basic component structure:

Ext.define('TodoApp.view.Map', {
  extend: 'Ext.form.FieldSet',
  alias: 'widget.todo-map',
  requires: [
    'Ext.Map'
  ]
});

Sencha Touch provides a map component, which wraps the Google map API. We require the Ext.Map class here but we also need to include the JavaScript that is backing this API. Add the following element to the js array in todo-app/app.json:

{
  "path": "http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?sensor=true"
}

Now, back in Map.js...