Complete Guide Of Sencha Touch Development

Introduction

Apps help businesses to reach a lot of potential customers. It also helps in building customer loyalty. It acts as a bridge between the business and the customers. So it is more effective when compared to other promotional tools like email marketing, social media marketing, etc.  There are many application development frameworks to help in the development process. Sencha Touch is one among them. Are you planning to go for Sencha Touch development? If yes, you should know a few important details about it. Here is an overview of Sencha Touch. Go ahead and read further.

What is Sencha Touch? 

Sencha is a base for a wide variety of popular products. Its products include Sencha Architect, Sencha Animator, and Sencha Ext JS Touch, etc. Sencha Touch is also one of its products. It is one of the leading cross-browser app development frameworks. Sencha Touch is based on JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3. It not only helps app developers to design rich UI but also simplifies their work in many ways. Sencha Touch is based on the MVC pattern. As MVC codes are reusable, it accelerates the speed of app development. It is a powerful framework that helps in building customizable apps. 

Sencha Touch – A Peep into Its History

Sencha is a popular name in app development tools. On July 17, 2010, Sencha first released the beta version 0.9 of Sencha Touch. Then, it released the first stable version 1.0 in the month of November of the same year. Subsequently, another updated version 2.4 was released in June 2015. Now, it has been merged with Ext JS. 

The beta version supports Android and IOS devices. The first stable version supports Blackberry devices too besides Android and IOS. The 2.4 version supports more devices including Windows, Mobile Safari, and Tizen. 

What are the features of Sencha Touch? 

Sencha Touch has a lot of unique features. These features give richness and power to apps. It is a powerful tool in mobile app development because of its features. Here is a list of the features. 

1. Sencha Touch comprises a set of components to use within mobile and web apps. These components are GUI-based. 

Its components include:

• Buttons that are device-specific
• Sliders
• Combo boxes
• Index bar
• Toolbars
• Menu and 
• Movable tabs etc. 

Additionally, it has a map component that supports gestures like pinch and zoom. 

1. Navigation view – This feature allows you to make animated transitions. It also provides additional automatic button management.
2. It provides Ajax support.
3. This framework also provides DOM manipulation.
4. You can theme the controls and components using Sass, a style sheet language. 
5. Web and hybrid applications have the same look and feel on all types of platforms. 
6. One of the unique features is its adaptive layouts. 
7. Animation and smooth scrolling are great features that give a better user experience. 
8. Sencha Touch also has eight inbuilt transition effects that include flip, over, under, pop, and slide, etc. 
9. Moreover, it supports many touch gestures like a scroll, pinch, tap, swipe, and double-tap. 
10. The themes are available for all main platforms. 
11. Finally, there are 300 icons that are of great help to developers. 

Advantages of Sencha Touch

The following are the benefits of using Sencha Touch:

1. Unparalleled user experience – First, the user experience is amazing. You are assured of smoother animations and scrolling.
2. Powerful plugins – ‘Load More’ and ‘Pull to Refresh’ are two newly updated plugins. They are very powerful. Hence, it provides a marvelous out-of-the-box experience. 
3. Powerful performance and memory – It has infinite carousels. Therefore, there are no concerns about managing performance and memory. Sencha Touch does it for you with carousels. You don’t have to worry about it. 
4. Easy navigation – It has a responsive touch feature. Hence, you can navigate easily.
5. Easy template creation – It has a component called Component Data View. This helps to create templates easily. 
6. Cost-effective – The biggest advantage is that it is cost-effective in spite of its high quality. 
7. Cross-platform – You can create a native app using Sencha Touch that runs on several platforms. 
8. High-speed – This framework provides high speed. Consequently, the users love it.
9. Easy to understand – From the perspective of the developers, Sencha Touch is easy to understand. Therefore, the developers prefer this. 
10. Complex applications – Finally, it helps to build complex applications because it has a novel layout engine. 

What are the cons of Sencha Touch? 

1. There is one major disadvantage. Developers need a push notification facility but this framework lacks this feature. 
2. Moreover, it does not have access to contacts and cameras.  
3. To create commercial apps you have to pay for a subscription for Sencha Touch. But in reality, most of the developers prefer free versions to save cost. 
4. It is not suitable for a few apps like gaming apps. 
5. There have been no new versions of Sencha Touch for quite some time. So it is not updated. Updated technology is a must for app development. Since it is not updated, developers are moving to other frameworks. 

If you want to develop an app with Sencha Touch, make sure you hire a competent company. Also, find out if the company has experience and knowledge in Sencha Touch.

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