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PhoneGap By Example

You're reading from   PhoneGap By Example Use PhoneGap to apply web development skills and learn variety of cross-platform mobile applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785285318
Length 368 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installing and Configuring PhoneGap FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up a Project Structure with Sencha Touch 3. Easy Work with Device – Your First PhoneGap Application "Travelly" 4. Integrating the Travelly Application with Custom Service 5. Crazy Bubbles - Your First HTML5 Mobile Game 6. Share Your Crazy Bubbles Game Result on Social Networks 7. Building a Real-time Communication Application – Pumpidu 8. Building "Imaginary" – An Application with Instagram-like Image Filters 9. Testing the PhoneGap Application 10. Releasing and Maintaining the Application Index

The initial application's MVC structure

After preparing some debugging tools, we can move back to our "Travelly" application development itself.

We should organize our views, controllers, and models. Let's start with views.

Views

Earlier, when we created a basic Sencha Touch application, we described the launch method in the main entry point:

launch: function() {
    Ext.fly('appLoadingIndicator').destroy();
    Ext.Viewport.add(Ext.create('Travelly.view.Main'));
}

This code destroys the loading indicator and adds our Main view to the viewport. A loading indicator displays the process when the application is not ready yet and initiating all the components. This is pretty clear, right? By default, the Main view extends the Ext.tab.Panel Sencha component.

Tab panels are a great way to allow the user to switch between several pages that are all full screen. Each component in the tab panel gets its own tab, which shows the component when tapped on it. Tabs...

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