Mobile UI frameworks & other UI scripts

Question

I'm looking for the best cross browser compatible swipe script for android, iphone and other touch phones. Has anyone used any of the available frameworks or have you used custom scripts? What is your experience with these?

SenchaTouch jQTouch Phone Gap Unify Project

Any others? I am joining a mobile task force and would like to get more involved in one or more of these communities so I can provide some UI support.

Thanks, Seth

Answer 1

First of all, let's sort out the apples and oranges.

PhoneGap and Appcelerator Titanium are NOT UI frameworks. They are both Web to Native bridging technologies. They provide JavaScript API's for mobile capabilities like accelerometer, contacts, GPS, telephony, etc. Also, they facilitate the creation of a deployable mobile app (versus a web page)

Sencha Touch, jqTouch, and jQuery Mobile are mobile UI frameworks that provide support for mobile UI concepts, like touch, swipe, transitions, small screen sizes, etc. They can run in a pure web page or be used in conjunction with PhoneGap or Appcelerator Titanium in a mobile app.

I'm not too familiar with the Unify Project, but it seems to be a bundle of PhoneGap plus their own UI framework.

Both Sencha Touch and jQuery Mobile are in early days, but already have some great capabilities and they're moving fast.