Introduction Developers have been using PhoneGap (and subsequently Cordova) to deploy hybrid mobile applications since 2009, when it was first created. By allowing web applications to run on native devices, the HTML5 community fully embraced PhoneGap and thousands of apps…

Over the last five years, there has been an explosion of innovation in both web and native technologies. With the rapid release of libraries, frameworks and tools, developers now have many options to create applications for this new world. But,…

A few months ago, Sencha released a package of connectors that combined the power of Sencha Touch with the capabilities of Windows Azure cloud services. The Sencha Touch Extensions for Windows Azure made building mobile cloud applications both easy and…

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Guest Blog Post Overview With the launch of Ext JS 5, Sencha introduced a new and more powerful Sencha Charts package, which has built-in support for touch events. This means you can use touch gestures to interact with the charts.…

Microsoft has a long and storied history in the field of web development. After Internet Explorer (IE) effectively won the first ”browser wars“ of the late 1990s and early 2000s, development on IE stagnated. IE6 was released in 2001 and…

We were as excited as everyone else with last week’s Apple iOS 8 release announcement. We have only had the iOS 8 GA bytes for a few days, but we wanted to do as quick and complete a write-up as…

Woop there it is — Ext JS 5. Now, you might wonder why you should upgrade. There are many reasons why you’ll want to upgrade your existing Ext JS 4 applications, but most important is optimizing your application to support…

Sencha Cmd provides a suite of tools for generating and building applications using Sencha frameworks (Ext JS arguably the best javascript framework and Sencha Touch). In addition to these bookends of the development process, Sencha Cmd also provides useful tools…