Rhodes Eu Ru Ko

Adam Blum [email_address]

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
1 billion iPhone app downloads on a platform with great browser installed (as of April 23, 2009)
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 realtime:
http ://www.github.com/ rhomobile
gem install rhodes
http://wiki.rhomobile.com

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 RhoSync Server synced data (SQLite) Rhodes app RhoSync client web server ORM (Rhom) Rhodes runtime browser control Ruby interpreter HTML templates model controller model HTML templates controller Backend app mobile device source adapter Backend app model model We provide: Third party components: source adapter You write:

Rhodes Apps
Rhomobile provides sample apps
SugarCRM
Siebel Field Service
Third party apps
Issues to Go – VDG Group
PixalPedia – Carry the Day-
Wikipedia – Wikimedia (Hampton Catlin)
BMC Remedy/Aeroprise
On My Means – Paul Oremland

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)

Upcoming Developments
1.1 release – this month
Testing framework for Rhodes apps + framework itself
improved database, client sync on Android/BlackBerry
RhoHub – public beta announced at InterOp
Hosted development
edit online a la Heroku
Build for all smartphones online
Hosted runtime
OTA provisioning (user downloading from URL)
Sync server
Register at http://rhohub.com
More
Ad service
device capabilities: accelerometer, video, audio, …

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
Follow us
Twitter: rhomobile
Facebook:
Rhomobile
Rhodes Developer Network (if you’ve written a Rhodes app and are interested in consulting referrals)

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Rhodes Eu Ru Ko

by Adam Blum on May 10, 2009

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