For Mobile developer Sencha App Platform Adds Desktop, Android Features

With app management platforms proliferating in the new mobile-first era, Sencha Inc. has added some new twists to its offering such as including desktop applications in the mix and addressing the "Android fragmentation" problem with its Web-based cross-platform approach.
Sencha is known for its suite of mobile development tools targeting different platforms and OSes, choosing an HTML5-based approach where the browser is the application platform. That's in contrast to other mobile approaches where separate native apps are built for each target, or where hybrid apps use much of the same code base and are customized for separate platforms through different means, such as wrapping them in containers that access native functionality through JavaScript API calls or compiling them to separate native apps.
Along with pure development tools, more vendors are producing app management platforms that coordinate development with testing, auditing, deployment and other ancillary tasks.