1. A method for providing HyperText Markup Language (HTML) directed adaptive features for a mobile application, the method comprising: downloading the mobile application from an application marketplace, the mobile application including a local file manifest and a native binary including all of executable binary code of the mobile application; executing the native binary of the mobile application, the native binary implementing a plurality of Uniform Resource Locator (URL) handlers each registered to a function of the mobile application; determining the local file manifest of the mobile application needs to be updated, the local file manifest referencing a HTML document including a plurality of URLs associated with a subset of the plurality of URL handlers; updating the local file manifest of the mobile application from a remote server without updating any of the executable binary code of the mobile application, the updating modifying the plurality of URLs in the HTML document; rendering the HTML document from the updated local file manifest on a display.