In addition, theming provides access to icons as fonts, which lets you display and scale icons in your app quickly with reduced overhead on your app. Using this framework you can develop mobile web apps that look and feel like native apps on ios, android, blackberry, and windows mobile. This is done using sass, a stylesheet language built over css. The default sencha touch theme has a number of global sass variables and mixins that you can modify in order to create a custom theme. This separation allows large scale applications to be flexible and easy to maintain. He has over eight years of experience designing in a variety of fields, from architecture and fashion to education and software.
Sencha touch lets you define platforms so that you can load resources in your application depending on the platform on which your app runs. Sencha touch is a versatile html5based framework for developing mobile web apps. Sencha touch comes with several different themes that can be used, if you take a peek inside the themes folder you. Touch theme layer already has a big object on sass. If you want to modify this theme source, please use compass compile srcsass and. Installation instructions for sublime text 2 package control. Sencha touch is a product of sencha, which was formed after popular javascript library projects ext js, jqtouch and raphael were combined. I have converted it to be usable with sublime text 2, as well as adding additional functionality for ext 4. Easily share your publications and get them in front of issuus. How to theme sencha touch with sass on windows francis. How to sass with ext js and sencha cmd enovision gmbh.
About me jakob westhoff i more than 11 years of professional php experience i more than 8 years of. Sencha touch 2 theming using ruby gem compass and ubuntu. With this book, youll learn how to build a complete touch application, called find a cab, that has the look and feel of a native app on android, ios, windows, and blackberry devices. Sass, short for for syntactically awesome stylesheets, is basically an extension of css that allows for lots of cool stuff that we all wish css hadvariables, nesting selectors. Create theme for sencha extjs components and charts. Sencha touch follows the mvc pattern which separates the application data, the control code and view. Youre probably familiar with the default blue sencha touch theme you. Sencha touch supports android, ios, windows phone, microsoft surface pro and rt, and blackberry devices. This is a not a book with advanced indepth information about sencha touch or sencha technologies.
Fortunately, sencha touch makes theming ridiculously easy, and there are a lot of resources available to help with getting started with that. This bundle was originally written by ed spencer for textmate. Browse other questions tagged sencha touch sencha touch 2 themes sass sencha touch 2. Problem in customizing theme including whole color and. How to upgrade a sencha touch app to ext js 6 modern toolkit. Sencha cmd is a crossplatform command line tool that provides many automated tasks around the full lifecycle of your applications from generating a new project to deploying an application to production. Using the cupertino theme in sencha touch joshmorony learn. For more information about installing and getting started with sencha cmd see introduction to sencha cmd. As i already stated, sencha s ext js and touch frameworks use sass and compass to build their themes so creating css sprites with the same technology seems like a logical next step. Some of the nativelookalike themes are cupertino classic for ios6.
There are thousands of sass variables build in ext js and touch and more than once, one variable relates to another variable. If youre building a website with a nontrivial css file arent we all, aa sass aa makes managing the css a lot simpler. Sencha touch is a user interface ui javascript library, or web framework, specifically built for the mobile web. Apr 04, 20 20 thoughts on changes to sencha touch 2.
Ext js themes use sass, which stands for syntactically awesome. An introduction to theming sencha touch not completely relevent, as this is for sencha touch, but this is an article i wrote about theming sencha touch, which has a similar architecture to the new system in jqtouch. I tried extjspanelui mixing in my theme and its not working. In my windows machine, i installed java, sencha cmd, sencha doc, ruby, compass and i generated one sencha application in that i try to compile app. In this post i record the steps taken to successfully setup sass syntactically awesome style sheets with sencha touch on windows. You can create themes using sass, which installs for you with the new sencha cmd 3. I teamed up with sencha s cto, james pearce, to design an app called roookies.
Generating css sprites with sass and sencha cmd aka web. Sencha touch 2 theming using ruby gem compass and ubuntu 11. It refers to sencha theme name, that much is obvious, but its not entirely clear how sencha packages themes. Fortunately, there is a much better and far less painful way to customize sencha touch themes. Embedding regular css if all this talk of sass and compass is confusing, the good news is that even an. The following two lines import the default sencha touch theme. These themes augment the existing standard sencha touch and windows phone themes. Sass is an extension of css3 which adds nested rules, variables, mixins, selector inheritance, and more. It can deliver close to native performance on mobile devices. I could take most of my styling directly from my sencha touch application. 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.
The next step in creating your custom theme is to select which theme to extend. Mar 28, 2012 the first thing we need to cover is a basic overview of the tools used by sencha touch that make theming your application possible. For some reason the fonts are not recognized by compass as being part of the sencha touch distribution. Would it also be possible to give us a list of all the already available iconcls by default in sencha app. This rapidly speeds up development of custom themes based on the default sencha touch. But it might not be immediately clear how to use these. 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. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. All sencha theme packages are part of a larger hierarchy of themes. The custom sass css classes will be stored in the sasssrc folder.
The best practice is to manually go through all the views in your browser, and check to see if the styling is. Get handson experience building speedy mobile web apps with sencha touch 2. Sep 23, 20 in this article we saw that how we provide the custom look and feel for the application using sass and sencha cmd. Ive been researching this in my evenings and weekends and am at the point where i want to change how sencha touch looks. To build a theme in ext js, you must have sencha cmd 6 or higher installed on your. I teamed up with senchas cto, james pearce, to design an app called roookies. How to reuse ext js models and stores in sencha touch 2 ext jssencha. The theme names of windows and blackberry cause the touch framework to branch internally. Bootstrapping and theming your app with sencha touch 2. Now, ill cover a practical example of how to create a mobile web app using sencha touch. Ext js themes use sass, which stands for syntactically awesome stylesheets, and yes, its indeed awesome. 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.
The new default theme and any new themes are then built on top of that base. 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. Formsfields 1 touch 5227 blackberry eye to show password on password field. Mar 03, 2014 this is a robust and mature framework that also utilizes modern technologies available in the latest browsers. This basetheme is designed as the absolute bare minimum to get your app up and running, and contains no styling beyond what is required for making the framework operate. To use this new feature it is mandatory to setup your project with sass. In this article we saw that how we provide the custom look and feel for the application using sass and sencha cmd. This is the look that most of sencha s samples feature, and the look that you get when you initially create an application. Being shipped with so many widgets, tools, and themes, touch can certainly cut development time significantly. When you use sencha cmd like i do, you can open your terminal or dos prompt and assume to. This entry was posted in javascript, open source and tagged compass, sass, sencha cmd, sencha touch, sencha touch 2 by ryan. Sencha touch has an inbuilt dom manipulation interface which negates the dependency on other ui frameworks like jquery.
Sencha touch is a user interface ui javascript library, or framework, specifically built for mobile web. Jul 16, 2015 in older versions of ext js and sencha touch, the sass stylesheets were compiled on top of ruby on windows, you had to install ruby with administrator rights. The \resources\ themes folder doesnt contain individual theme folders such as default. Sep 28, 2014 in this post you will focus on the version of the file located in the \theme1\touch\resources\ themes \stylesheets\senchatouch\default\var directory. This beta release supported devices running android, and ios on iphone, ipod touch, ipad. Compass does not compile with unix lineendings on windows. Sencha touch may the best win qafoo gmbhcrosscan gmbh october 25, 2012 jquerymobile vs. Learn how to use the power of css3, sass, compass, and sencha tools to create consistent and crossplatform themes for ext js 4 and sencha touch. Sencha cmd is a commandline tool used to package and deploy ext js applications.
Styling the user interface of a sencha touch application. Sencha touch theming lets you group together css styles as a theme so that you can tailor your apps appearance to match the visual cues of a platform or operating system. The organization of themes has greatly improved in sencha touch 2. In older versions of ext js and sencha touch, the sass stylesheets were compiled on top of ruby on windows, you had to install ruby with administrator rights. In this article i will show how to setup an ext js app with sencha cmd version 4. Sencha touch ships with a default theme and a couple of themes specific to the blackberry and windows phone platforms that provides the look and feel for your app if you do not use a custom theme. Once everything was set up, you could start compiling the themes, but that compilation took a lot of time especially when you had a large codebase and an advanced theme. The reason is that our customer demands pink based color theme and they want to change font size by clicking buttons smallmiddlelarge.
This guide will teach you how to generate a sencha theme with sencha cmd, to start theming with sass. The theme parameter is one i havent been able to figure out. I checked the api document, it doesnt have the mixins section at all for panel and all the components i checked. Ive been researching this in my evenings and weekends and am at the point where i want to change how sencha. Sass drives the theming, with plethora of variables and mixins supplied to make quick restyling a breeze. So far, weve looked at some basic concepts related to how to approach modifying a sencha touch app theme, as well as walked through exactly how all the pieces fit together in the sass magic.
Creating a custom theme for a sencha touch application. This bundle is released under the mit license and can be used for both ext js and sencha touch. Jun 20, 2014 using the cupertino theme in sencha touch. The javascript portion of sencha touch generates lots of very complex html, in order to display the various components, such as toolbars and panels. Its a handson book for showing tips and tricks and i am trying to focus on the beginner to intermediate sencha touch developer. Developing themes for sencha touch was made simple with the use of sass, compass and their features. Jul 15, 20 changing the look and feel of your sencha touch app is an important step that you can take to give its users a unique experience. For this you have to copy the folder themes fonts in your sencha touch distribution to a new folder called stylesheets in the folder styles. Sass both provides a simpler, more elegant syntax for css and implements various features that are useful for creating manageable stylesheets. We covered file structure for extjs theme, creating custom themes and using with extjs application, how to override the default styles for components, definging custom ui. In prior versions of sencha touch you would use the sass pictosiconmask mixin to encode a png file and add appropriate style references into your generated css file. If your project not yet including sass, take a look at this article theming sencha touch with sass.
We have abstracted our default theme into a base which consists of only the basic colors and layout of all components. For information on optimizing the use of themes in css, see 4 tricks for smaller css. It should output a version number for ext js 6, the cmd version should be 6. We covered file structure for extjs theme, creating custom themes and using with extjs application, how to override the default styles for components, definging custom ui and using it with components and custom theme for charts etc. Build snappy web apps for mobile devices with sencha touch 2, the user interface javascript framework built. Sencha just announced the support for windows phone 8 in sencha touch, a high performance html5 mobile application framework.
In a freshly generated application you should be greeted with something like this. Contribute to shinobukawanosenchatouchflatuitheme development by creating. If any of you out there have previous experience theming sencha touch apps, this should come as a huge step in right direction. During the course of developing your sencha touch app, you will inevitably get around to themingafter all, while the default styles are nice, they dont exactly scream individuality. How to upgrade a sencha touch app to ext js 6 modern toolkit part 2. Go to the ruby installer for windows website and download the latest ruby version usually the fist file at the top of the list. I got everything to work except for the check mark, it disappeared from all default checkboxes after i did away with the default pictos font.
In this tutorial you will learn how sencha touch themes work, and what approaches you can take to create a custom theme for a sencha touch application. Android, and windows lookalike themes are shipped with the entire package. This means that you will be creating a custom theme for all targeted devices except blackberry and windows phone ones. Sencha touch has a full list of the variables that can be altered to change the look and theme of an app. Building our custom stylesheet with sass ok, lets recap. Note that sencha cmd will also install ant, ruby, sass. Sencha touch provides a base theme that you can customize, or builtin themes for sencha touch, internet explorer 10, and blackberry 10 devices. To make any modifications on sass files in ext js or touch, you have copy the structure of the foldersfiles as they are in the theme sass folder of the sencha distribution. Sencha touch provides a number of themes to be used in your applications. Were mac systems faster than windows in processing performance. 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. Using the cupertino theme in sencha touch joshmorony.
Roookies helps dribbble newbies gain exposure on the network by featuring only rookie artwork. However, every now and then i will try to share some advanced tips and tricks. Sencha touch themes take sass and compass one step further, by providing variables and mixins whose functionality is specific to sencha touch. I am not using a workspace and generate the app directly. Problem in customizing theme including whole color and font size we are trying to create 3 similar theme in ext js 4. Create an htmlcss mobile web app using sencha touch. Oct 30, 2012 sencha just announced the support for windows phone 8 in sencha touch, a high performance html5 mobile application framework. Since the framework is uicentric, developers usually wind up modifying the default theme.
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