GXT 3 mobile support

Question

Support GXT 3 responsitive design out of the box or is there another way to get a good mobile application with GXT running. I know about Sencha Touch but I don't want to develop two standalone apps..

Regards, Markus

Spiculum

Answer 1

2015-01-22 update without mentioning a date, but looks promising: sencha.com: Taking a Look at Sencha GXT and GWT

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it seems in summer 2014 (around now :-)) we should get this natively with GXT 4.0 from Sencha: http://www.sencha.com/blog/gxt-roadmap-update/

• full tablet support (touch gestures, smooth scrolling, drag and drop, and more...)

But it seems with touch4j (http://emitrom.com/touch4j) (A simple to use Java API for Sencha Touch, Google Maps and Apache Cordova(PhoneGap)) as mentioned here:

http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?125865-GXT-to-incorporate-Touch-interface-for-mobile-and-IPad&s=77af04972b2d8e9a218a28f2faf0532b&p=886769&viewfull=1#post886769

it seems already possible now to leverage GXT/GWT/Sencha Touch coding only Java

I'll try this out sometime soon.

Dumpy

another related thread, but still not out yet: sencha.com/forum/… – Dumpy

repo link with latest versions RCs etc.: mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.sencha.gxt/gxt – Dumpy

But! As I had just to learn: Firefox Browsers (more specific Gecko-engine-based ones) are NOT SUPPORTED :-(. Webkit is so dominating in the mobile world that there seems to be not enough reason to do this currently: 2014/07: sencha.com/forum/…, 2012/07: sencha.com/forum/… and wrapping WebKit seems almost impossible: wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Layout/CSS_Compatibility – Dumpy

the gwt-touch Google Code project seems to be a dead child since 2011: code.google.com/p/gwt-touch/source/list – Dumpy

it seems that only a hybrid (at best well code-separated/interfaced) jQuery mobile-GWT-solution is the only reasonable way to get broad desktop/mobile browser support in a more robust, centralized, enterprise-level development project: jquerymobile.com/gbs – Dumpy

so jqm4gwt seems to be a good candidate to try out as a best-of-bread solution for me: github.com/jqm4gwt/jqm4gwt (latest version: 1.4.3 (2014/07)) it even supports the very good GWT UIBinder technology – Dumpy

jqm4gwt is really fantastic! The first project implementation went pretty cool where as a 2nd one just based on statically served content based on jQM with docpad also went very smooth! Very nice :-) – Dumpy

Answer 2

Yes with GWTP its easy to use Form Factors and create specific versions of your project;

I would use Form Factors instead of responsive design because the table/mobile versions need a different screen approach. In addition Sencha/IDERA GXT 4.0.X has already some touch-screen support with a Gesture System and Touch Scroller.

Grinnell