Sencha Touch itemtap

Question

I have a list of contacts that sencha touch is displaying in a list. Then when you click a name in the list it should slide to the right and say Hello {contact name}! but wh

Answer 1

The first argument passed to the itemtap event isn't the record of the List item tapped, it's the DataView itself.

From the docs:

itemtap : ( Ext.DataView this, Number index, Ext.Element item, Ext.EventObject e ) Fires when a node is tapped on

Listeners will be called with the following arguments:
this : Ext.DataView
    The DataView object
index : Number
    The index of the item that was tapped
item : Ext.Element
    The item element
e : Ext.EventObject
    The event object

You can grab the tapped record by using:

dataView.store.getAt(index); // where 'dataView' is 1st argument and 'index' the 2nd