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I am planning to create a mobile or rather a tablet version of my existing web app. The devices supported would be iPad, Xoom (android).
I am not sure which JS library to use jQuery Mobile Vs Sencha Touch
My page would contain srandard componenrs like carousel, tab bars, etc
How should I decide which library to go for ?
As of now, I am comfortable with jQuery syntax..so that is inclining me to think towards jQuery mobile. But guess that would be a wrong way to shortlist the JS library..
Please provide as much suggestions as you can.
Sencha Touch is the most obvious option here, jQuery Mobile is still no where near the quality of the Sencha Touch library.. although jQuery mobile degrades a lot more gracefully on non iOS and Android devices.
Seeing as you are aiming to support only Android and iOS then this shouldn't be a problem (Sencha Touch also supports BlackBerry OS 6 on the Torch 9800 handset too).
I found the responsiveness of jQuery Mobile to be supbar, and there are still a lot of rendering issues and kinks they need to iron out. I wouldn't expect a stable release until early 2012 at best.
You will find Sencha Touch to provide a more "native app" experience too, with a lot of great learning resources that you won't find for jQuery Mobile yet.
One final note, Sencha Touch supports a more MVC style application design (should you choose to go that way with your app), whereas jQuery mobile will simply be a load of markup and a load of jQuery script converting your HTML elements into touch friendly interface components.
TL;DR - Sencha Touch is the more complete package providing you want to put in the time.
The jQuery Mobile library is still in Alpha development.
I was at a conference in May, and the jQuery Touch developers were among the presenters. They even said that it was still in heavy development and probably not ready for prime-time use yet.
