After trying to find a work-around myself and opening a support ticket with Kendo UI (#709522), it seems that Kendo UI is not compatible with Cordova 2.7. This is potentially due to the location.hashchange-related bug in Cordova (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-2602?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel). Initializing the Kendo UI Application after deviceready does not seem to fix it either. If anyone comes up with a work-around that works on Android and iOS, I'd love to know about it. Until then, Kendo UI Mobile users seem stuck on Cordova 2.4.