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Developers have long complained of the fractured nature of mobile app development, requiring them to rebuild apps for each specific mobile platform they want to target. HTML5 has been touted as the solution--a way to create content once and publish everywhere, giving users the content they want on whatever device they are using.  However, there are still problems with implementing certain types of apps in HTML5.

At Sencha we build Web application frameworks that are used by millions of developers worldwide. Every day, we see our customers bring more and more amazing apps to market leveraging pure open Web technology. We'd seen firsthand what HTML5 was capable of, and we knew for a fact that Web technologies were not the reason why the Facebook app was sluggish.

It's one of the ironies of the developer community that being successful can come at a price--a steep one if they have opted to use a cloud-based service as part of the process of creating and running an app.  Source: Creative Commons

In early December, Google ( NASDAQ:GOOG ) released the latest major upgrade to its Android mobile operating system, Android 4, codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich. For Web developers, this represented a prime