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Rhomobile Mission
Mobilize applications rapidly with a great user experience
Provide the high level productivity and portability of web programming
Device optimization and offline capability of “native mobile apps”
Open source for rapid adoption by developers
Background
Smartphone sales are exploding Five major smartphone operating
systems: iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian, Android Growth leaders are installed base laggards
“native apps” have won the day 800 million iPhone app downloads on a
platform with great browser installed
But …how do you write an app for all popular devices?
A Better Way… Rhodes
Build the app quickly in HTML and Ruby
Write it once and it runs on all smartphones
Work with synced local data Exploit device capabilities (GPS, PIM
data, camera, SMS) Available open source:
http://www.github.com/rhomobile
The Rhomobile Components
Rhodes “microframework” for building locally executing
natively optimized mobile apps Developers run app generator for their objects of
interest and then edit HTML templates Contains first mobile Ruby implementation
RhoSync Sync focused on web service data (needed in the
age of SaaS) Handles keeping your data local on the device
Rhodes Architecture
RhoSyncServer
synced data(SQLite)
Rhodes app
RhoSync clientweb server
ORM (Rhom)
Rhodes runtime
browsercontrol
Rubyinterpreter
HTML templates
model
controller
modelHTML
templatescontroller
Backendapp
mobile device
sourceadapter
sourceadapter
Backendapp
model
model
We provide:
Third party components:
You write:
Rhodes Apps Rhomobile provides sample apps
SugarCRM Siebel Field Service
Third party appsTrailGuide (Basecamp) - Carry the Day Mobile Lighthouse – VDG Group Wikipedia – Wikimedia (Hampton Catlin)PixalPediaBMC Remedy/Aeroprise
Building a Rhodes App Get your data (RhoSync)
Create a sync source Define your sync source adapter code Test it from the RhoSync web interface
Generate your app (RhoGen) Generate an app (in the Rhodes \apps subdirectory) Generate scaffold code for the model
Develop your app (Ruby/HTML editor of choice) Edit your HTML templates (ERB file)
Build, test, deploy (development environment for device) Build your app Test your app Make available for download (or submit to an AppStore)
Status 1.0 release! March 24th here at OSBC
Android Camera
RhoHub Hosted app development (edit online a la Heroku) Hosted build (don’t need to install all development
environment) Hosted provisioning (user downloading from URL) Hosted runtime (sync server) First 100 registrants on http://rhohub.com get in
private beta
Why Rhomobile?
Declarative tag-based approach (web programming) is more productive
Rich client against local data much better than remote web apps
Write it once and it works on all smartphones
Open source from the ground up http://www.rhomobile.com
