Rhomobile Beginner's Guide

The four Rhomobile products – Rhodes, Rhosync, RhoHub, and Rhogallery – provide a complete toolkit for creating a mobile application. Rhomobile is cross-platform and so allows you to build your application for many different types of smartphone – including iPhone and Blackberry – just with a single codebase. This makes it the most preferred and quickest way of developing mobile apps. As you create a native Rhomobile application, you can use the built-in device features such as GPS, Push, and Camera, all with offline capabilities.Rhomobile Beginner's Guide is filled with practical examples to help you to create a mobile application from scratch. You can choose on which operating system to build, as well as for which smartphone to develop your application, giving you the freedom to create a customized mobile application quickly and easily.Once you have learned how to install Rhomobile on Windows, Mac, or Linux, you will create a simple application, which will be used to explore the products of Rhomobile one by one. Things really get going when you write unit test cases for your application before deploying it to the server and making builds for your chosen Smartphone.

You will learn about the different aspects of Rhomobile, starting with Rhodes 3, which helps you to build a native mobile application. Rhosync 2.1 carries out the offline device capabilities and RhoHub deploys the code on the server and creates a build for the different smartphones.

Rhomobile Beginner's Guide gives you the freedom to create a mobile web application on the platform of your choice, for the smartphone of your choice.

Type
ebook
Category
Mobile
publication date
2011-07-26
what you will learn

Install Rhomobile products on Windows, Mac and Linux

Create a basic Rhodes 3 application that interacts with the database

Fetch data from backend services and display it on your phone

Create a native User Interface for your chosen smartphone

Write unit test cases for your application

Deploy your Rhosync 2.1 application to Rhohub to create a build for your smartphone

Generate views from the server using Metadata

Make use of device capabilities such as Push and GPS

no of pages
264
duration
528
key features
Explore all of Rhomobile's features and products through the creation of a mobile web application * * Step-by-step instructions help you to build an enterprise mobile web application from scratch, through to deployment * * Clear guides for developing applications on iPhone, Blackberry, and other smartphones * * Learn how to use Rhomobile's four products: Rhodes, RhoSync, RhoHub, and RhoGallery
approach
Part of Packt's Beginner's Guide series, this book is packed full of practical examples and screenshots to make building your application straightforward and fun.
audience
Whether you have prior experience of developing mobile applications or this is your first venture, all newcomers to Rhomobile will be able to quickly develop their own mobile application. This book is accessible for people who are completely new to Ruby, though having prior knowledge of it would be a huge advantage.
meta description
Step-by-step instructions to build an enterprise mobile web application from scratch
subtitle
Step-by-step instructions to build an enterprise mobile web application from scratch
keywords
Rhomobile, Rhodes, RhoSync, RhoHub, RhoGallery
Product ISBN
9781849515160