AppMobi, a maker of mobile development solutions, launched its latest project. The jQ.Mobi JavaScript framework rolled out into private beta under an MIT X11 license, and puts a big emphasis on the “other” type of cloud in the consumer space, enhancing the ideals the mobile industry in particular has adopted.

jQ.Mobi is specifically designed to power mobile web-pages, unlike other frameworks that were originally built to power desktop websites. It’s heavily based on components ported over from the popular jQuery in HTML5, and features major enhancements that boost speed and performance on Android and iOS devices.

AppMobi’s latest brainchild packs a query selector engine, a user interface (UI) library and several plug-ins, in addition to a major edge over the competition. According to tests, it outperforms jQuery by about 292 percent on Android and by 223 percent on iOS, and the gap is even greater when compared to Zepto. On average, jQ is five times faster across all Android versions, and four times faster on iOS. On top of that it’s also tiny: the jQ.Mobi engine comes in at 3741 bytes and the UI code at about 15,000, making them both much smaller than both of the other frameworks noted above.

“Apple set the bar high with its Cocoa Touch mobile interface and until now, similar quality UX tools haven’t existed for web-based mobile developers, and that is why we’ve put this project into play.  We’ve started this project with high expectations, focused around delivering speed, size advantages, and cross platform uniformity, and we look forward to seeing where the open source development community takes it from here,” said Sam Abadir, appMobi CTO and founder.

HTML5 is big in mobile 

HTML5 is going to be and to some extent already is big in the mobile space. AppMobi has been quick to tap this trend. Last year it released an HTML5 SDK with major improvements to audio.