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Sencha Architect 2: A WYSIWYG IDE for Building Desktop and Mobile HTML5 Apps

April 17, 2012—Sencha Architect 2 builds on the company’s HTML5 layout tool, Ext Designer, expanding its capabilities to offer a comprehensive application design environment for building desktop and mobile Web applications. Used in conjunction with Sencha Touch 2 and Ext JS 4, Sencha Architect 2 aims to increase developer productivity and drive best practices in application design patterns. InfoQ had a short Q&A with Aditya Bansod, senior director of product management at Sencha abut their new product. InfoQ

Sencha Architect 2: The New Name for HTML5 UI Tool Ext Designer

April 17, 2012—Developer tool and software company Sencha Inc. on Tuesday announced a new brand in HTML5 UI design and coding called Sencha Architect 2. The software is aimed at Web designers and users who want to create cross-platform HTML5 apps in a visual, drag and drop environment. betanews

Sencha Architect Targets Amateur Designers Interested in HTML5

April 17, 2012—HTML5 framework provider Sencha has introduced Sencha Architect 2, the evolution of its drag-and-drop Ext Designer application. Sencha Architect 2 builds upon Ext Designer by expanding the program’s support for building desktop and mobile Web applications. ZDNet

Sencha Architect 2’s New GUI Makes Mobile App Development Visual

April 17, 2012—A developer can put together an application using the tool's drag-and-drop capabilities, but writing code is also made easier. Sencha has introduced Architect 2, a cross-platform development tool for HTML5-based mobile and desktop apps that aims to make it easier to create applications with the help of a new graphical user interface, the company said on Tuesday. Architect 2 is an upgrade of Sencha's Ext Designer. But early on, the company decided it didn't want to develop just another interface designer, but a complete application builder, where the architecture and the interface of an app could be created and properly structured for development. InfoWorld Developer World

New Drag and Drop HTML5 App-Building Tool

April 17, 2012—Making an HTML5 app just got easier. Sencha, a provider of HTML5 frameworks and tools for desktop and mobile application developers, just released Sencha Architect 2. Sencha Architect 2, is a HTML5 visual app builder that was created using Sencha’s own HTML5 tools. It includes full code editing capabilities and built-in one-click native packaging for iOS and Android that eases app deployment to Apple’s app store and Google Play. I had the opportunity to ask the senior director of product management at Sencha, Aditya Bansod a few questions about the new release. HTML5 Blog

SAP’s Message Of Openness To Mobile Developers

April 13, 2012—SAP addressed its developer ecosystem this week by forming agreements with Adobe, Appcelerator, and Sencha to provide an open mobile application development framework on the company's own eponymously named mobile platform. Dr. Dobb's

SAP Plans to Dominate Enterprise Mobile Apps with HTML5 and New Partnerships

April 11, 2012—One of the largest software companies in the world just made a series of moves that could make it one of the most powerful enterprise mobile developers in the world. Hidden within SAP's Hana database platform announcement yesterday was the fact that the company signed three strategic partnerships with leading U.S. mobile development firms, signaling what could be a huge shift in the balance of power in the race for enterprise mobile dollars. ReadWriteWeb Mobile

SAP Makes Mobile Acquisition Takes On Oracle - Launches Real Time Venture Fund

April 10, 2012—In addition, SAP announced agreements with Adobe, Appcelerator and Sencha to provide developers with a mobile app development framework. Sencha Touch is an HTML 5 mobile application framework. The framework allows for development on iOS, Android, Blackberry and other platforms. Forbes

SAP Reveals Database, Mobile Roadmaps Through 2015

April 10, 2012—SAP unveiled its immediate and long-term plans for HANA and Sybase, demonstrating how the business management software provider aims to become a leading database vendor. ZDNet

HTML5 Roundup

April 09, 2012—Sencha, the company behind the popular Sencha Touch toolkit, has written an entry in its HTML5 Scorecard series about Apple's new iPad. Due to performance regressions and the removal of true localStorage persistence in application-embedded Web views, Sencha says that the new iPad is a step backwards for mobile Web developers. Ars Technica