Building Native Smartphone Apps with Rhodes
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Rhomobile is a smartphone app framework that allows developers to write once and deploy apps to multiple smartphone platforms like iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and others. It uses HTML, CSS, JavaScript and the Ruby programming language. Apps are built using the Model-View-Controller framework and can work offline by synchronizing data. Rhomobile also offers a hosted development platform called RhoHub that allows collaborative app development in the cloud without needing local SDK installations.
Building Native Smartphone Apps with Rhodes
- 1. Rhomobile, the Smartphone App Framework
- 2. Background Smartphone sales are exploding Six major smartphone operating systems: iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian, Android, webOS (and more coming) “ native apps” have won the day >3 billion iPhone app downloads on a platform with a great browser installed But …how do you write an app for all popular devices?
- 3. A Better Way… Rhodes Build the app quickly in HTML and Ruby Write it once and it runs on all smartphones: BlackBerry, iPhone, Windows Mobile, Android, Symbian, WebOS Work with synchronized local data even when offline Exploit device capabilities (GPS, PIM data, camera, push/SMS, native mapping) No one else provides productivity, portability and performance equivalent to Rhodes
- 4. Save TONS of Development Effort Rhodes iPhone (Obj. C) mobile device Android (Java) WinMo (C#) RIM (Java) Symbian (C++) Up to 25 times Faster!
- 5. Rhodes Architecture RhoSync Server your app code RhoSync client ORM (Rhom) Rhodes components Ruby executor HTML templates model controller model HTML templates controller Backend app mobile device source adapter Backend app model model We provide: Rhodes app generator Backend app Device capabilities smartphone device source adapter You write:
- 6. Some Customers - mobile SugarCRM – home healthcare point of care – mobile CRM for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry – mobile BMC Remedy for BlackBerry and iPhone – Track-R, mobilized PivotalTracker for iPhone and Android – #53 public app on AppStore – university portal – HSA balance, emergency services locator, ID card - bidirectional HD audio/video streaming, shipping to multiple carriers on all smartphones
- 7. RhoHub First and only “Development as a Service for mobile” Launched November 4 th Over 3000 developers signed up since then Hosted development Web-based IDE for ease of use Build for all smartphones online – no need to install SDKs Hosted runtime No need to set up RhoSync server Collaboration Work with other developers on same project over the web Sign up at http://rhohub.com
- 8. Summary: Why Rhomobile? Rhodes Runs Everywhere Write once – run on every smartphone Only MVC framework for smartphones Use web development skills to write NATIVE apps Only framework with sync enables smartphone usage in the enterprise Only Development as a Service for mobile Write apps without installing SDKs locally
- 9. Backup
- 10. Rhodes Versus Other “Me Too” Frameworks Only one that supports all devices Only one with synchronized data Only MVC framework First Ruby on the device First and only hosted development service for mobile
Editor's Notes
- #5: For example, Wikipedia in Objective C was five times the size of their rewrite in Rhodes