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

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?

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

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

“ 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 Rhodes app RhoSync client ORM (Rhom) Rhodes runtime Ruby interpreter HTML templates model controller model HTML templates controller Backend app mobile device source adapter Backend app model model We provide: rhogen source adapter You write:

Write An App Rhogen app Rhogen model (all your models) Edit your HTML templates Rake –T Rake run:iphone:app

Rhogen app

Rhogen model

(all your models)

Edit your HTML templates

Rake –T

Rake run:iphone:app

RhoHub First “Development as a Service for mobile” (DaaSM?) Public beta announced at Interop on May 17th 700 developers signed up since then 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

First “Development as a Service for mobile” (DaaSM?)

Public beta announced at Interop on May 17th

700 developers signed up since then

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

Developer Community Metrics RhoHub developers: 700 Watchers on GitHub: 299 Total downloads: ? (GitHub does not provide) Number of apps out there: ? (GPL users don’t inform us) BUT… RhoHub will provide exact metrics of: Number of developers Their number of apps Their number of total users User behavior

RhoHub developers: 700

Watchers on GitHub: 299

Total downloads: ? (GitHub does not provide)

Number of apps out there: ? (GPL users don’t inform us)

BUT…

RhoHub will provide exact metrics of:

Number of developers

Their number of apps

Their number of total users

User behavior

Rhodes Apps Issues to Go – VDG Group (on the AppStore) Interface to public bug tracking systems such as LightHouse PixalPedia – Carry the Day (on the AppStore) Take a picture with device camera, it geotags it, shows you map of location and retrieves Wikipedia article On My Means – Paul Oremland Budgeting app, written in less than 40 hours by developer with no knowledge of Rhodes. Accepted by AppStore in 4 days Wikipedia – Wikimedia (Hampton Catlin) threw away their iPhone Objective C app, rewrote it in Rhodes with 20% of code Rho-See-Bell – Dan Bikle Interface to Siebel CRM RhoCRM – Rhomobile (to be sold to third party) Interface to SugarCRM, includes “map my accounts”, sync to local device contacts PLUS 26 contest entries released as open source on May 24 th !

Issues to Go – VDG Group (on the AppStore)

Interface to public bug tracking systems such as LightHouse

PixalPedia – Carry the Day (on the AppStore)

Take a picture with device camera, it geotags it, shows you map of location and retrieves Wikipedia article

On My Means – Paul Oremland

Budgeting app, written in less than 40 hours by developer with no knowledge of Rhodes. Accepted by AppStore in 4 days

Wikipedia – Wikimedia (Hampton Catlin)

threw away their iPhone Objective C app, rewrote it in Rhodes with 20% of code

Rho-See-Bell – Dan Bikle

Interface to Siebel CRM

RhoCRM – Rhomobile (to be sold to third party)

Interface to SugarCRM, includes “map my accounts”, sync to local device contacts

PLUS 26 contest entries released as open source on May 24 th !

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 Chat/follow/watch us Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/rhomobile IRC: #rhomobile Twitter: rhomobile GitHub: http://github.com/rhomobile/rhodes/tree/master

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

Chat/follow/watch us

Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/rhomobile

IRC: #rhomobile

Twitter: rhomobile

GitHub: http://github.com/rhomobile/rhodes/tree/master