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Getting Started with Sencha Touch 2: Build a Weather Utility App (Part 3)

| Lee Boonstra

In this Sencha Touch tutorial, you will build the Do I need my Umbrella? app, a simple utility app that loads weather information from a web service — worldweatheronline.com. Based on weather codes, this app can predict if you need your umbrella or not. In part 3, we’ll talk about builds, and you’ll use Sencha Cmd and PhoneGap/Cordova.

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Using the New App Watch Command in Sencha Cmd 4

| Don Griffin

Perhaps the biggest new feature introduced in Sencha Cmd 4 is the “sencha app watch” command. This command greatly streamlines the continuous process of making small changes and seeing them run seconds later. In this article, we will cover the basic operation of the app watch command and how you can customize its behavior.

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Leveraging PhoneGap within Sencha Touch

| Ross Gerbasi

With the release of Sencha Touch 2.3 and Sencha Cmd 4, creating your cross platform hybrid applications has never been easier. PhoneGap is now a first class citizen in the Sencha Touch mobile workflow integrating seamlessly into the newly released, NodeJS based, PhoneGap command line interface. In this article, we’ll take a look at creating an app with Sencha Touch and PhoneGap.

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Understanding Sencha Cmd Packages

| Don Griffin

In April of this year, as part of the rollout of Ext JS 4.2 and the new Neptune theme, we introduced support for packages in Sencha Cmd 3.1. In this article, we’ll dig into some of the inner workings of packages and see how to leverage them for perhaps their most common use case: to share code between applications.

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Top Support Tips

| Team Sencha

The Sencha Support team shares their top tips for using Sencha frameworks in the Sencha newsletter each month. In this article, we’ll give you a few new tips and a round-up of the top tips from earlier this year.

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Top 5 Tips — Get Started with the Latest Sencha Product Releases

| Lee Boonstra

While the whole world is discussing the new iOS 7 release, or locking themselves in front of the game console to play GTA 5, Sencha has delivered several updates to its frameworks and tools: Sencha Touch 2.3, Ext JS 4.2.2, Sencha Cmd 4 and Sencha Architect 2.2.3. To celebrate the new product releases, we’re sharing some of the best tricks to get your app development started quickly.

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Announcing Sencha Touch 2.3 – Touch Grid, Cordova Support, and New Themes

| Gautam Agrawal

Today we’re releasing Sencha Touch 2.3 with lots of new features, an iOS 7-friendly theme, as well as an exclusive Touch Grid for our product bundles (Sencha Complete and Sencha Touch Bundle). Sencha Touch 2.3 includes 3 new themes: Cupertino (themed for iOS 7), Cupertino Classic (themed for iOS6.x and below), Mountain View (themed for Android), and enhancements to other themes (including BlackBerry 10 upgrades).

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Top Support Tips: July 2013

| Greg Barry

Increase App Performance by Disabling Image Slicer
Cmd’s image slicer is awesome when you have to compensate for some of Internet Explorer’s CSS3 deficits. Learn how to customize Sencha Cmd to run your apps sans slicer.

Hello Global — Using Ext JS Custom Functions
Users always need to utilize custom functions and variables in a global perspective but knowing how to integrate them can be a little tricky. Here’s a tip that saves the day!

Building Responsive Apps Using Button Sensitivity in Sencha Touch
As device resolution gets bigger and better, some users may experience issues with the button sensitivity in Sencha Touch. We introduced a new event recognizer configuration item called moveDistance in Sencha Touch 2.2.0. We’ll show you how to use it.

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