Jay Robinson

Tag: touch

  • A little less than two years ago, Dave Kaneda and Tommy Maintz got it on this couch in Palo Alto and made a baby called Ext Touch. Today, the Touch team releases Sencha Touch 2. What a beautiful thing to behold.

  • Sencha Tumblr: IGN’s new iPad app built with Sencha Touch debuted on the Apple App Store today. We’re particularly impressed with the lengths they went styling components for a custom theme, not to mention how responsive the app is in a native package. We highly recommend checking it out on the App Store, it’s free!

  • Sencha tumblr: Thrilled to see VHX, a Flash web app for time-shifting online videos, uses Sencha Touch for their HTML5 mobile app. One of my favorite web apps now has a Sencha Touch app!

  • P.J. Onori proposes a new standard for gesture icons, emphasizing legibility at small sizes: I believe today’s gesture icons are not hitting the mark because they lack the qualities associated with good icons. I have designed an icon system in attempt to address this issue. Excellent set, well thought-out.

  • Sencha tumblog: We’re huge fans of Xero’s work with Ext JS and Sencha Touch. And now they’ve been chosen as Business Insider’s App of the Week. Check out this outstanding app for iPhone and iPad. You can read more about Xero in our Spotlight articles for both Ext JS and Sencha Touch.

  • Sencha Touch 1.1 is now available, featuring BlackBerry support, new themes, new demos, and much more. Look at all those pretty devices!

  • Sencha Touch has quickly become the gold standard that other frameworks are measured against. Nice quote in this IBM whitepaper: “Mobile web application framework match-up” Via the Sencha tumblelog.

  • WebKitBits, via Sencha: Excitement has been building for some time for a BlackBerry device with a modern WebKit browser. Michael Mullany puts the brand new BlackBerry Torch through the paces, from the point of view of a web developer, to see what it can handle. The results? Pretty impressive… Check out his article on the…

  • Sencha Touch 0.91 Public Beta is out. This release offers huge improvements to the Scroller which now provides continuous events for a better experience in Grouped Lists. It also features a new, vertical carousel and a steady helping of bug fixes. (Release notes) We’re seeing a huge response on Twitter and our Forum. We hope…

  • Getting Sassy with CSS

    Getting Sassy with CSSDavid Kaneda: My newest post on the Sencha blog covering the wonders of SASS and Compass. Includes a full getting started guide and covers some of the techniques we used in developing the themes for Sencha Touch. Via Sencha tumblelog.

  • jQTouch and Sencha Touch: Which is right for you?

    jQTouch and Sencha Touch: Which is right for you?David Kaneda: Recently I had the pleasure of announcing Sencha Touch, a standards-based mobile app framework which I helped create. As expected, this has raised some questions about jQTouch, a similar library I created last year. As covered before, jQTouch will remain separate, maintained, and free under…

  • David Kaneda: “It is my honor to present Sencha Touch, a brand new HTML5/CSS3 app framework for touch devices.” We’ve been working on a lot of really cool stuff at Sencha, and now we can finally talk about it!

  • Luke Wroblewski, “Why Care About Touch Interfaces?”: “Apple sold 1 million multitouch-enabled iPads in 28 days. That’s 35,700 per day. Last quarter (Q1 2010) they sold 97,000 multitouch-enabled iPhones per day. In February, 2010 about 60,000 multitouch-enabled Android phones were being sold per day. Add that up and you are looking at 192,700 touch-based devices…