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Submitting a HTML5 Application to the Amazon Appstore

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The Amazon Appstore is not as big as the iOS or Android app stores, but it is the only one that will accept web applications. Here's how you can submit your app.

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Top 10 Tips: Sencha Touch Best Practices Review

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A little while ago Modus Create released the video and slides for a 'Sencha Touch Best Practices for Enterprise JavaScript Applications' webinar that took place on November 15th, 2013.

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Amazon Now Allows HTML5 Apps to Be Sold in Their App Store

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In a big step forward for web based HTML5 mobile applications, Amazon has just announced that they will allow developers to charge for HTML5 applications on the Amazon Appstore

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Can’t Load Record from a Sencha Touch Store?

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More often than not, if you're having trouble retrieving records from a store and receiving null or undefined values it is because the store was simply not loaded when the call was made.

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How to Play Music from a Users Library with the PhoneGap File API

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Getting the users own music to play from their music library was a big stumbling block for me but eventually I was able to get it to work for Android devices but not iOS.

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Creating a Stopwatch Timer with Sencha Touch

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In order to get it to work within Sencha Touch's MVC structure, a few changes were necessary but the bulk of the code is the same as the one I linked to.

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Implementing Facebook Paper UI in Sencha Touch

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But of course we're going to have to do a few other things if we want to get it working within the Sencha Touch framework. First of all you'll have to download the source file 'photoTilt.js'

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3 Things You Didn’t Know Sencha Touch Could Do

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The purpose of this blog post and possibly future posts is to highlight some cool things Sencha Touch can do that some people might not already know about.

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Converting a Native Android App to Sencha Touch: Part 4

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I won't go too in depth into SoundCloud integration because Phil has done a far better job at explaining than I ever will, so if you'd like to do this yourself head on over there.

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Using Custom Icons in a Sencha Touch Application

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The icons that are included out of the box will usually be enough to cover most situations, but of course there are going to be times where you want to use an icon that isn't included.

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Converting a Native Android App to Sencha Touch: Part 5

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It's finished! If you're not familiar with this series, I've been working on converting a native Android mobile application I created a little while ago into Sencha Touch. You can follow along from the start here.

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Using the Cupertino Theme in Sencha Touch

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I'm a fan of minimal design and favour the Cupertino theme over the default Sencha Touch styling, so let's take a look at how we can go about implementing this in our own application.

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10 Tools & Services I Use to Promote Mobile Applications

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There's a lot of 'stuff' that goes on around building mobile applications that doesn't involve building the application itself.

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Background Geolocation with Phonegap Build

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The only problem was that when users locked their phone during the run - a perfectly reasonable and expected thing to do - the GPS would stop tracking.

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Why You Need to Be Using App Inspector for Sencha Applications

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App Inspector is a Google Chrome extension for debugging Sencha applications. It was contributed to primarily by Arthur Kay, Stefan Stölzle and Bruno Tavares.

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The First 22 Days on the App Store

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This post is all about what has happened in the first (almost) month my app has been available on the iOS and Android app stores.

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Complete List of Useful Sencha Cmd Commands

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It can be a little hard to figure out exactly what each one is doing and why it's useful though. I've created this list to help clear up the commands you'll find yourself using most often.