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Sencha Touch is the first HTML5 Mobile app Framework
Brandon Davenport
Just 5 years ago, developing “web apps” meant developing a great website — and I’m not even sure if the term “web apps” had even gone mainstream 5 years ago. Since the release of iPhone, Android (and especially iPad), web designers and developers have been scrambling to create and revise apps using HTML5, Javascript and CSS3 to be compatible with todays mobile technology — but there hasn’t really been an easy way of creating mobile, in-browser apps until now.
Say hello to Sencha Touch, a company that builds web applications. They have developed the first, full blown HTML5 web application platform, and this gives you the ability to avoid the app-stores and provide a rich, in browser apps.
The stuff you can make with this framework is quite astounding, and even though your creations will be inside the browser, they will look and feel like an app from the App Store. Sencha has a fantastic demo page which showcases what you can create.
Sencha Touch is currently in public beta, so the suite is free, and available to download, but once it becomes solidified in v1, there will be some fees involved — a basic license starts at $99, and plans run all the way up to $1,800 and beyond (for commercial licenses).
In short, this is the first of it’s kind, so we strongly suggest you take advantage of the public beta, and get familiar with Sencha Touch.
Learn more - About Sencha Touch and see some demos
Scrape Through - Sencha’s API documents
