Mobile Awesomeness Blog

Sencha (formerly Ext JS) recently announced a new mobile framework for WebKit browsers called Sencha Touch. This seems to be by far the closest competitor to JQtouch for iOS and Android web development, with some really great functionality right out of the box. Here's a brief demo outlining the framework:

Urban Airship is a service that provides developers with the ability to enable push notifications and in-app purchases in their apps without having to write a bunch of server-side code to communicate with Apple. The big news for web developers using PhoneGap is that Urban Airship push notifications are now supported (not in-app purchases yet). Here is a blog post with the details ...

SproutCore (the javascript library running Apple applications like Mobile Me and iWork.com) now has a "touch" version meant for use on the iPad and iPhone. That's rad. Read all about it here.

PhoneGap is an ambitious open source project that strives to help developers build platform-independent mobile applications using HTML and Javascript. For any web developer, this is music to our ears! And the beautiful thing is ... it works. This framework is a game-changer in the iPhone and mobile web development space.

Writing anything further simply would not do this project justice, so watch this video and learn about it in their words:

Recently we were sent a new mobile resource that has a really interesting business model, and could be a huge benefit to developers not wanting to spend days optimizing for all the various mobile handsets.

The site is called Mobile Elements. Basically you create a website using standard XHTML, then call their various APIs, which will optimize your code for mobile handsets based on their extensive device database of literally thousands of phones.

The service also gives you the ability to override any of the device profiles in order to make your site display perfectly. Although a little pricey for most websites right now, we think it's a wicked cool idea.