Can Sencha Touch do this? - 3 things I need to know before I start

[Osifer]

1. iPhone has the main app screen which has apps and a background which you can slide form side to side to see a new group of apps. Is it possible to duplicate this set up?
2. Also like the iPhone home screen, will the framework allow you to press and hold an icon till it shakes?
3. The iPad has the iworks apps, specifically Keynote. It has a great design for editing the size, shape, color, angle, etc of objects, can sencha do this?

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Sencha Touch is not a replacement for iOS.

[jeffremer]

None of these features are available out of the box so to speak - but Sencha provides the framework that would let you replicate some of them, albeit with a lot of work, in a web app.

iPhone has the main app screen which has apps and a background which you can slide form side to side to see a new group of apps. Is it possible to duplicate this set up?

This would involve using a Sencha carousel component, and a grid of buttons on each child panel, then using your own CSS styling to achieve the same look. The carousel feel is similar to the drag/swipe feel of the iPhone home screen.

Also like the iPhone home screen, will the framework allow you to press and hold an icon till it shakes?

Again, not out of the box. However Sencha does allow you to monitor all kinds of touch events, you would have to detect if your button was tapped and held for a certain time period, then apply some animation to it either through CSS3 animations or javascript.

The iPad has the iworks apps, specifically Keynote. It has a great design for editing the size, shape, color, angle, etc of objects, can sencha do this?

You'd basically have to rewrite whatever functionality you want in Javascript - it'd be very time consuming. There are a few good canvas drawing libraries and there have been other requests for canvas drawing components in this forum.

[Osifer]

Sencha Touch is not a replacement for iOS.

I'm aware that it isn't a replacement... with that said, the applications I've seen getting developed with Sencha Touch are awesome and have all the features that seem to be worth investing time and money into.

I'm creating a table management application and have it all planned out. When I went to developers for iOS to create the app, it turned into a $15,000 project. It wasn't cost effective for me to do it that way yet. I will in the future also get that up and running but after I start getting some money in.

My business partner has experience with Javascript and all things PHP, he's been having a tough time with the library and has been running into some issues.

I would gladly join forces with another programmer to get this project done in a quicker time frame. Known anyone?

[Osifer]

This would involve using a Sencha carousel component, and a grid of buttons on each child panel, then using your own CSS styling to achieve the same look. The carousel feel is similar to the drag/swipe feel of the iPhone home screen.

With any luck, it will lend well to having multiple slides(components of the carousel), and it won't have issues with adding or removing new slides. I need an enterprise application, one that has all the bugs figured out and has no issues. Hopefully I can get something like this up and bug free within 6 months.

[Osifer]

I wanted to show you an example of what kind of screen, using the iPad, it would look like.

[AndreaCammarata]

As already said, Sencha is not a replacement of iOS but a great framework wich will allow you develope some amazing apps.
You have to consider that Sencha Touch is a new born project, so it's normal you still have not seen some big application using it, but i suggest you to take a look at the application I'm working on, that, maybe, will show you what you can really do with Sencha Touch.
Take a look at this post.

http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthre...-jabber-server)

As you will see in the application I almost replicate the iOS home screen according to my needs, so maybe this partial reply to you doubts on this amazing framework.

Cheers

[Osifer]

It absolutely helped, I will send that to my programmer. Thanks for the reply, if you by chance feel like giving away some free code... I'd love to see how you did the carousel with the buttons.

[AndreaCammarata]

I'm glad I helped in some way.
I will try to cut out some application code to show you how I develope the carousel with buttons but is really hard at the moment.
But I will check what I can do about it!

Cheers

[madhusudhan]

Staying on the subject of what sencha does and does not.could anyone pls tell me if Sencha touch supports the use of canvas