Mobility solutions for tomorrow’s organisations

No other technology has caused disruption as much as mobility has caused in last few years. Recent figures indicate that mobile devices has overtaken PC shipments globally, this clearly indicates the dominance of mobile technology in today’s world. 

Businesses so far have been slow in embracing mobility compared to consumers but that is being changed slowly. 

The infographic below illustrates the direction in which the mobile commerce is headed, and shows the race between iPhone and Android.

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What is Sencha Touch?

"Sencha Touch was the first HTML5 mobile JavaScript framework for web applications that feel native on Android, BlackBerry, and iOS. Our extensive tutorials, screencasts and resources are a great way to learn the framework." - Sencha.com

What is JQuery Mobile?

"A unified, HTML5-based user interface system for all popular mobile device platforms, built on the rock-solid jQuery and jQuery UI foundation. Its lightweight code is built with progressive enhancement, and has a flexible, easily themeable design." - Jquerymobile.com

If we read the definition carefully, we can see that Sencha is a Framework, that means it provides a complete development stack, including in built composite UI controls, also it has its own UI designer app (commercial) which gives you a kind of WYSIWYG interface for building apps quickly. 

While on other hand JQueryMobile is not a framework it's a user interface system in their own words, it does not have its own tools for UI generation (however there are third party web based tools) or their own composite UI controls (may eventually come).

How many times you have seen a decent looking website on your mobile phone (or tablet) and you got amazed? That's because they are either optimized to look great on mobile or they are specifically made for mobile devices.

Here at Intellial, when client comes to us asking to make his website look good on mobile devices, we guide him by presenting various approaches available and discuss which is most suitable for him in terms of both cost and efforts. Here I give you some highlights of which approaches we follow:

Inc.com has an interesting article on why it's more important than ever to focus on mobile strategy for businesses. Here are some excerpts:

Mobile Websites

Several companies have a subdomain set up specifically for mobile phones. So, for example, when users type www.ESPN.com into a smartphone, the ESPN site actually figures out that they are visiting the site from a mobile device and redirects them to a subdomain. The user experience from the phone is different than the user experience at a computer.