MiamiCoder

If you ever need to choose between jQuery Mobile and Sencha Touch, you need to consider these factors before making your decision:

About jQuery Mobile

• It’s a UI-only library, which relies on jQuery and jQuery UI for DOM manipulation, Ajax and other utilities
• To create UI widgets, you generally need to hand-code their html, and the library enhances their look and feel
• As it works by enhancing the html you create, it allows you to re-use or re-purpose existing html
• Some simple applications can be created using only html, without having to write JavaScript code
• It has a relatively small object model, which makes it faster and easier to learn, specially if you are familiar with jQuery
• It does not impose a coding discipline or structure, which gives you flexibility, but can lead to applications that are difficult to maintain
• Easier to integrate with other frameworks
• Targets more devices than Sencha Touch
• Not tied to a particular vendor

About Sencha Touch

• It’s a library that tries to do it all: UI widgets, DOM manipulation, Ajax and other utilities
• Does not depend on other libraries
• Follows a JavaScript-centric approach, where you are required to write little html
• Has a large object model, which provides more features out of the box, but takes longer to learn
• Imposes a coding structure and discipline, which generally results in well-organized code
• Provides built-in server and local storage abstractions, which make it easier to perform CRUD operations on relational data
• Has built-in facilities for creating iOS and Android native packages
• Targets less devices than jQuery Mobile

Now go ahead and start building that application.