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March 7, 2012—Sencha has released the next version of its HTML5-based development framework for touch screen applications. Sencha Touch 2 brings improved performance, especially for applications targeting Android.
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March 7, 2012—The big news about Sencha Touch 2 is that it lets web developers create native apps for Android and iOS that can be distributed through their respective app markets. This also means that developers who use Windows as their development platform can now create iOS apps for iPhone and iPad without buying a Mac, learning Objective C, and using Xcode.
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March 6, 2012—Sencha Touch 2 forms the cornerstone of the Sencha HTML5 Platform, the suite of Sencha technologies that spans the entire app development lifecycle, including the design, development, packaging, and deployment of HTML5 applications. This latest version of the industry’s most popular mobile development framework includes new features that enable developers to tap into native device APIs and Web data sources to and enhance the functionality and power of their HTML5 apps.
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March 6, 2012—Developers now have the ability to create natively packaged iOS applications from both Mac- and Windows-based computers with today’s release of Sencha Touch 2. Sencha Software, a provider of software tools to create and deploy mobile and desktop applications for multiple platforms, announced the release of Sencha Touch 2, which the company is calling a “cornerstone” in its HTML5 development ecosystem, which also includes Sencha.io, Ext JS and Sencha Designer.
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March 6, 2012—Sencha, a company that develops JavaScript libraries, announced this morning the availability Sencha Touch 2, a major new version of the company’s framework for building mobile Web applications. The new version brings improved performance, broader platform support, and additional functionality. We discussed the update with Aditya Bansod, the senior director of product management at Sencha. He described how Sencha Touch fits into the company’s product roadmap, which includes an evolving suite of tools, frameworks, and services for building applications with standards-based Web technologies. We also conducted some hands-on tests with the new version of the Sencha Touch framework and used it to build a simple mobile application.
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March 6, 2012—With this release, Sencha’s engineers aimed to make standards-based Webapps rival native apps on all the top devices and browsers. Sencha Touch 2 includes an updated and easier to use API, enhanced MVC, and richer documentation. To harness local hardware and system services, Sencha Touch 2 provides access to a wider set of native device APIs, allowing HTML5 developers to take advantage of hardware features.
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February 27, 2012—Today, there is little doubt the industry has embraced HTML5 as the best solution for cross-browser, cross-device rich application development and delivery. Witness the demise of Flex, the repositioning of Flash, and Microsoft’s announcement that Silverlight 5 would be the last version for the browser.
Performance “has been the one area that keeps people up late at night,” said Aditya Bansod, senior director of product management at development platform provider Sencha. … “User experience and what works well on mobile devices have been well-defined in the last three years. There’s a lot of knowledge being built up around that.”
February 27, 2012—
Facebook today announced it is joining over 30 device manufacturers, carriers, and developers that are accelerating the improvement and standardization of mobile browsers: the W3C Mobile Web Platform Core Community Group. Companies in the group include: Samsung, HTC, Sony Mobile Communications, Nokia, Huawei, ZTE, TCL Communication, AT&T, Verizon, Vodafone, Orange, Telefónica, KDDI, SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp., Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc., NVIDIA, ST-Ericsson, Intel Corporation, Texas Instruments, Broadcom, Mozilla, Opera, Microsoft, Adobe, Netflix, VEVO, Zynga, @WalmartLabs, Electronic Arts, Sencha, and Bocoup.
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February 27, 2012—A coalition of 30 technology companies hopes to turn the Web into a competitive platform for building mobile applications. They have launched a Core Mobile Web Platform (coremob) community group through the W3C to provide a venue for collaborating on next-generation mobile Web standards. … In addition to Mozilla and Facebook, the coremob community group also includes major mobile network operators, hardware manufacturers, mobile platform vendors, and other Web companies. The lineup includes AT&T, Verizon, Samsung, HTC, Nokia, Intel, Microsoft, Opera, Adobe, Netflix, Zynga, Sencha, among others. Conspicuously absent from the list: Apple and Google.
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