Sencha Touch or jQuery Mobile? – Read This Before You Make a Decision

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

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

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

I have a selection of Sencha Touch and jQuery Mobile tutorials that will help you build great applications. Check them out using these links: