Sencha themer provides a prebuilt example app that has many ext js, extangular and extreact components you can theme. Initial work by perdiga with thanks to armode for the help, publicated at sencha forum. Themes let you customize the css in your application for different platforms. Sencha touch 2, a html5 mobile application framework, is the cornerstone of the sencha html5 platform. In most cases, the first step is to generate an application based on a sencha sdk such as ext js or sencha touch. You should replace this font with your own custom icon font that only includes the icons that your app will actually use. When developing sencha touch themes, you must keep in mind that there is a significant tradeoff between performance and file size. Model is a static method on the class definition, not an instance. It includes an updated and easier to use api, enhanced mvc, and documentation. The sencha touch sdk contains only the classes which contains the framework, plus examples and docs. You can read more about this at steve drucker blog changes to sencha touch 2. Now, create the folder for your app, ive called it dinmu since that is shorter than the name doineedmyumbrella but its up to you. A zoomable image viewer class for the sencha touch 2. In this video, we have put together a demonstration of how easy it is to add themeswitching.
Implement and handle forms, and construct a custom theme. Downloaded the latest sencha sdk and it created a touch2. Sencha cmd provides several categories of commands and some global switches. Sencha touch provides a base theme that you can customize.
The best theme to modify is neptune or the new triton. Chrome has a new flex layout support since version 29. This framework enables developers to develop thick clients. Once you have installed all of the above requirements for theme building, you can proceed with creating a fully customized theme.
Sencha touch 2 takes advantage of the widest set of html5 apis for rich app functionality. There are a few more things i did in my spotifext theme to make it look awesome. This beta release supported devices running android, and. Developed so many apps based in different2 functionality and third party frameworks. 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. Sencha expands html5 platform with launch of sencha touch 2. 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. Sencha touch comes with an array of beautiful icons for almost every need of your app. 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. Download ext js and extract the ext js development kit sdk to a location of your choosing.
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. However, if youve made a few apps youll realize that not all the icons in the resources folder work in the iconcls. Sencha touch provides a number of themes to be used in your applications. 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. 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. Sencha touch is a user interface ui javascript library, or web framework, specifically built for the mobile web.
In a previous post, i walked through the simple process of creating a custom ui for a toolbar in sencha touch. This is an awesome feature, because this offers the following new features. 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. 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. How to upgrade a sencha touch app to ext js 6 modern toolkit part 2 jan. Linux or mac slice your themes for legacy browsers. Ext js is a pure javascript application framework for building interactive cross platform web applications using techniques such as ajax, dhtml and dom scripting. 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 theming lets you group together css styles as a theme so that you can. Mac users get a break, since ruby is already installed on osx by default. 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.
The compilation process of themes in ext js apps runs via sencha cmd. If you needed a list of sencha touch 2 iconcls values, i hope this post has been helpful. This bundle is released under the mit license and can be used for both ext js and sencha touch. I am fully able to create custom themes, customize existing themes, implement. Sencha touch themes take sass and compass one step further, by providing variables and mixins whose functionality is specific to sencha touch. Touch 2 will be issued on the gpl3 and sencha commercial license. Use sencha touch 2 to enable facebook integration so that html5 apps can go social. Sencha touch, extjs, zend, linux, security, oracle, mysql and much more. Custom themes are based on default themes included with the ext js sdk. 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. Using the cupertino theme in sencha touch joshmorony. 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. 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. Lee boonstra is a trainer for sencha, teaching sencha.
Sencha also provides some themes to style the components. 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. Additionally, the theming system is augmented with compass recipes, another open source project david kaneda works on. Sencha touch installation on mac osx stack overflow. Sencha touch, a highperformance html5 mobile application framework, is the cornerstone of the sencha html5 platform. Just make sure it is the right fit for your project before going. Use custom button icons in sencha touch techtalktone. Sencha touch can be that right tool if you are building a high level mobile application through the web. Visit the ext js product page to learn about the latest features and release.
You can use this tutorial to help you build your theme for the sencha application theming contest. Get handson experience building speedy mobile web apps with sencha touch 2. This maintenance release contains improvements and fixes for many issues reported by our friend in the community. Now, open your command line msdos prompt or mac os x terminal. Layout is the way the elements are arranged in a container. Would it also be possible to give us a list of all the already available iconcls by default in sencha app. See sencha help command for more information on a specific command. Create sencha touch project with sencha architect 3. Styling the user interface of a sencha touch application.
In this exclusive excerpt from their book on the sencha touch mobile javascript. Sencha touch javascript html5 swift ios development mac os app. Touch1555 fixed switching of themes example on android. You can read more about he universal app setup in the getting started guide. Facebook integration is one of the many new features in sencha touch 2. 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 delivers an html 5 framework to mobile devices. Also, at times you may need to make your own app specific icons and personalize your app. Sencha touch 2 is optimized for the latest tablets powered by apple, android and blackberry. Macilinux how to and tutorials sencha touch, extjs. Ive been trying to install sencha touch 2 on my mac but without any success.
The fix for sdktools898 see below means that packages with extra content in their package. You can directly switch to one of these themes and use it, or you can extend one of them and modify it. 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. 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. Maclionbuntu and macxbuntu and 2 themes for cinnamon macilinux and maclionbuntu, 2 icon sets macibuntu and. Sencha touch 2 mobile javascript framework ebook, 20. In part 2, ill focus on more advanced concepts including. 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. It is built for enabling worldclass user experiences. The documentation even denotes this is a static method. If you want to see the full theme switching at work go to ext js.
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. Explore the incredibly powerful sencha theme engine using sass and. Fix this issue by changing the rule order of the stbox mixin. You can easily theme global variables including base color, background color, font, gradient, and more. Styling the user interface of a sencha touch application creative. Sencha touch has different layouts defined in its library though we. Advanced users may wish to pass in parameters to the java virtual machine vm to customize the runtime environment of openfire. When using sencha cmd a rebuild of the application might be required. You will learn everything from creating the project, including creating the models, views, controllers and stores, to the build to production. Downloaded and installed latest sencha sdk tools 2. However, you can catch a glimpse of them in this sencha blog post which also mentions sencha touch 2. 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. Touch2527 removed the custom getvalue method form checkbox so the proper functionality works as expected and documented. You can create custom themes by customizing any base theme including material, triton, and ios.
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