Welcome to Instant Sencha Touch. This book is a hands-on guide that provides you with all that you need to explore the Sencha Touch framework and start building high performance cross-platform mobile applications. The book contains the following sections:

So, what is Sencha Touch? is a quick introductory section on Sencha Touch for new users. It explains the Sencha Touch framework and some of its features. This will help you understand more about Sencha Touch.

Installation gives you step-by-step details for downloading Sencha Touch SDK, understanding the SDK, setting up the development environment, and installing some of the useful tools for development.

Quick start – building a Hello World application gives you further introduction to the most used components and features of Sencha Touch in real-time applications. It includes the necessary UI components and data packages.

Top 12 features you need to know about introduces you to the most amazing features of Sencha Touch, such as animation, adaptive layout, event handling, component queries, charts, and the MVC structure. It also introduces you to native deployment and creating custom themes.

People and places you should get to know gives you references to resources available on various social media to know more about Sencha Touch.