Mobile app development platform provider StackMob has added HTML5 support to its portfolio.

The company uses REST API and JavaScript Object Notation technology to allow developers to build apps for any mobile operating system without the need to use fragmented SDKs, which it said generate complicated code. The company has now made its tools – such as API creation and custom code, push notifications and analytics – suitable for HTML5, enabling developers to build and deploy mobile web apps.

StackMob co-founder and CEO Ty Amell started StackMob with Will Palmeri in January 2010 with the aim of lowering the barriers to a “network connected world” in which “everyone and everything was connected.”

“While Apple was revolutionising the world with the iPhone, we saw smartphones as just the first of many steps leading to an explosion of network connected devices,” Amell wrote in a blog post about the HTML5 support.

StackMob secured US$7.5 million of Series A funding in May 2011 after which it saw a 60 percent increase in developers using the private beta of the platform. The platform moved out of private beta in December last year.