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Sencha Touch

Sencha Touch Spotlight: United Heritage Life Insurance Company

United Heritage Life Insurance Company, the life insurance subsidiary of the United Heritage Financial Group, has been providing quality life insurance and annuity products since 1934. As customer needs have evolved, the software development team at United Heritage has upgraded…

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Sencha Touch

Building a Tizen App With Sencha Touch

Introduction In Sencha Touch 2.3.1, we added support for the Tizen platform, which is a “Web-based OS” and allows developers to use HTML5 technologies to write applications. The web browser bundled with Tizen is one of the most standards-compliant of…

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Ext JS

Writing an Ext.Direct Backend in Node.js

Some of you may have tried it, but there are still many developers who haven’t used this hidden gem — Sencha Ext.Direct. It was announced in 2009 and named one of the best features introduced in Ext JS 3.0. In…

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Cmd

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

In this three-part 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…

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Cmd

Using the New App Watch Command in Sencha Cmd 4

What's Sencha Cmd 4's biggest new feature introduced to date? It's the “Sencha app watch” command! This command focuses on streamlining small changes. That is, it enables these changes to continuously process, running automatically just seconds later. In this article,…

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Ext JS

Top Support Tips: December 2013

Making the most of TaskRunner By Seth Lemmons Sometimes, it's helpful to have a reusable running task that you can start and pause at will. Fortunately, setting a reusable task with Ext JS is quite easy. Ext.util.TaskManager is a singleton…

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Ext JS

Using Custom Icons in Your Ext JS Apps

Do you like the glyph attribute in Ext JS 4.2 as much as I do? With glyphs, you can implement an icon that is created from a font. There are advantages to using icon fonts — they are vectors and…

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Architect

Building a User Extension and Integrating It Into Sencha Architect 3 (Part 1)

Regardless of the type of application you’re building, there is almost always room to create a custom component or user extension that can be used across projects or teams. There is a rich ecosystem of user extensions surrounded by the…

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Architect

Re-skinning Your Apps Just Got Easier with Sencha Architect 3

There are many reasons why you might want to change the look of your app. That’s why we came up with the Themes feature in Sencha Architect 3. Theming was one of the most requested features, and I’m proud to…