11. The mobile device of claim 8 , wherein the modifying of the plurality of URLs is by modifying a URL from the plurality of URLs.
8. A mobile device providing HyperText Markup Language (HTML) directed adaptive features for a mobile application, the mobile device comprising: a memory including a mobile application, the mobile application including a local file manifest and a native binary; a processor configured to: 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; execute 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; determine 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; update 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; render the HTML document from the updated local file manifest on a display.