Sencha Touch 2 Allows Developers to Code iOS Apps With Windows PCs

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by werencole • 14 years ago

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superxor3• 14 years ago

> 'Sencha Touch 2 Allows Developers to Code iOS Apps With Windows PCs'

Stupid title. It's been a JS framework all along, it obviously can be coded on Windows/Linux.

I got the point though, Sencha Touch aims to look as native as possible. Well, that is really far fetched. I am working on a Sencha app, and Sencha Touch sucks. Especially the Sencha Touch docs are BS, single line descriptions, very pissing off.

But no other framework is as good as it, yet. Stuck with it for now.

m_st3• 14 years ago

No the title is correct, you can now create an iOS IPA for the App Store on Windows.

Did you encounter any other issues apart from the bad documentation? We're considering Sencha Touch for a new project and - as you said - no other framework seems to be as good as it.

AznHisoka• 14 years ago

I tried Sencha Touch. Light years better than JQuery Mobile and other platforms. But I agree - documentation is HORRIBLE. Both the standard ones and the ones you find in forums - hardly anyone discussing their problems in StackOverflow also. It was so horrible I decided to cut my losses and just make a native app.

superxor3• 14 years ago

I use PhoneGap/SenchaTouch to push apps to Appstore and Android market.

Major problem with sencha is it all seems merry initially, then one day you wake up and realize you are in deep shit. Bugs crop up out of nowhere, you WILL have to find work-around solutions.

I heard the official Sencha team is pretty much unresponsive, they mostly concentrate on serving paid clients.

Performance was very poor initially, but its ok now.

Sencha Touch team concentrates so much on iOS, that it is relatively very poor in Android. Just beats the reason to use a cross-platform platform.

superxor3• 14 years ago

The best thing to do is, download their demos and hack them.

But if you are looking for a clean solution, then go native, mobile web still sucks. (I so wish it dint)

cageface• 14 years ago

So, we spent time with device manufacturers understanding their implementations of WebKit and what we ended up doing is building specific implementations of our core performance APIs for each specific platform.

This is the problem with Android in a nutshell. Having to tune an HTML framework for each platform is just nuts.

dmix• 14 years ago

The important question is: have the fixed their awful documentation and clunky demo apps?

hyperionab• 14 years ago

the v2 docs look better: http://docs.sencha.com/touch/2-0/

werencole2• 14 years ago

Some of the demo apps are better, some basically the same. Overall improvement, I would say but kind of subjective.

aolczak3• 14 years ago

"The new layout engine in Sencha Touch 2.0 is so fast we had to use a high speed camera to measure it." source http://vimeo.com/30296006. Read "the improvement is so tiny you couldn't see it, so we slowed it down for you to see". The responsiveness on Android was horrible (check forums). Seems like the only real improvement so far.

Sencha Touch 2 Allows Developers to Code iOS Apps With Windows PCs

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