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Rhomobile roadmap
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- 2. 2 Current state andplan about integration into Rhodes repository 2015 2016 2017 2018 1.0 5.2 1.1 5.4 5.5 6.0 7.0 TAU Platform is a fork of Rhodes In Q1 2016 Zebra released last version of Rhomobile Suite - 5.4 TAU Technologies will release last version (1.1) of TAU Platform in Q1-Q2 2016 TAU Technologies will merge all changes from TAU Platform repository into the Rhodes repository and release Rhomobile Suite 5.5 which will include all features from Rhomobile Suite 5.4 and TAU Platform 1.1. TAU Platform repository will be deprecated and TAU Technologies team will continue work in Rhomobile repositories in order to create new features etc. Rhomobile Suite 6.0 is scheduled for Q1 2017. Minor RMS versions starting from RMS 5.5 will be released on a regular basis.
- 3. 3 Web Technologies ● Enterprisemobile development migrates to Web technologies ● Many HTML5/JS/CSS developers are involved into the enterprise development(desktop apps, web portals, mobile apps etc) ● Node.js is extremely popular server-side web technology and grows very fast. Most popular full-stack solutions based on Node.js are MEAN.js and Meteor.js ● Our plan is to support Node.js and set of JS frameworks(based on Node.js - Express.js, Meteor.js etc.) inside of Rhodes. Initially Rhodes was developed based on the client-server model but using Ruby On Rails server technology. Currently JavaScript is the most popular programming language and we have to support JavaScript as a language for local server controllers via the most popular server-side technology - Node.js. ● JXCore is a solution to run Node.js apps on the mobile platforms. ● NoSQL DB (like MongoDB) is extensively used in JS frameworks. Currently Couchbase Lite is NoSQL DB solution for mobile devices ● All above features allow Node.js developers to be able to make applications for mobile devices just using their existing development experience. 2016 2017 Node.js(JXCore) integration Couchbase Lite integration Express.js integration MEAN integration based on Couchbase Meteor.js integration
- 4. 4 Architecture Improvement 2016 2017 Accessto CommonAPI from Native Support Cordova plugins Improve our CommonAPI technology : ● Implement all existing functionality via CommonAPI (MapView, Calendar, Contacts etc. which haven’t CommonAPI interface yet) ● Support Cordova plugins: developers should be able to use existing Cordova plugins in Rhodes application. There are many Cordova plugins which provide a lot of functionality for mobile development. ● Currently CommonAPI is accessible only from WebView’s Javascript and Ruby controllers. We should also provide an access from native code on all platforms. We should refactor current Rhodes code to make internal Rhodes architecture more flexible. For instance it’s necessary to support different Ruby or JavaScript VMs etc. Rhodes code refactoring Implement all existing API via CommonAPI
- 5. iOS 10 Android 7 5 Platforms/ Third-party components Platforms: ● Support Windows 10 ● Support upcoming iOS versions ● Support upcoming Android versions Third Party Components: ● Migrate to Ruby 2.3 ● Migrate to SQLite 4 ● Add CrossWalk webview on Android (performance improvement, same HTML look on all Android releases) ● Add WebView based on open source WebKit on WinCE/Mobile to support HTML5/CSS3 and deprecate WebKit from Ekioh. 2016 2017 Windows 10 Ruby 2.3 iOS 11 Android 8.0 CrossWalk on Android WebKit for WinCE SQLite 4 Android 6
- 6. 6 RhoConnect Improvement ● Rhoconnectserver performance improvement (Rubinius VM support) ● Rhoconnect server integration into IBM BlueMix platform in partnership with IBM. It will greatly improve performance, fault- tolerance and scalability 2016 2017 Rubinius VM support BlueMix integration
- 7. 7 RhoBrowser RhoBrowser ● RhoBrowser solutionwill allow to run multiple hybrid enterprise apps inside single native container ( in different tabs etc ). RhoBrowser will provide an easy way to manage such applications ( install, update etc ) ● Ruby and Javascript both will be supported in RhoBrowser ● EMML will be deprecated. 2016 2017 RhoBrowser
- 8. 8 Developer Experience ● Debug(Ruby & JS) from RhoStudio on real devices ● Live update on Windows Phone 8 and Windows 10 ● Build system improvement ○ Build will be faster and no compilation of large amount of native sources will be required. Platform core should be delivered with pre-compiled binaries. ● Component installer ○ Platform bundle will be split to a number of separate parts. At first time user will just install a lightweight core and required components will be downloaded on demand. ○ optional iseq. It is not required to have precompiled Ruby sources for in-house enterprise apps. An ISEQ compilation should be an optional (defined in build configuration). ○ NPM installer ( standalone installer ). In case of support Ruby GEM installation (familiar for Ruby developers), we should also support the similar Node.js package installation solution - NPM (familiar for Node.js/Javascript developers). 2016 2017 Debug Ruby+JS LiveUpdate on WP8 & W10 Build system improvement optional ISEQ NPM installer
- 9. Web technologies Architecture RhoConnect RhoBrowser Developer experience Platforms 9 RMSRoadmap 2016 2017 RMS 5.5 - 5.X RMS 6.0 - 6.X Node.js(JXCore) integration Couchbase Lite integration Express.js integration Meteor.js integration MEAN integration based on Couchbase Access to CommonAPI from Native Support Cordova plugins Implement all existing API via CommonAPI Rhodes code refactoring iOS 10 Android 7 Android 6 Windows 10 Ruby 2.3 iOS 11 Android 8.0 WebKit for WinCE SQLite 4 crosswalk on Android Rubinius VM support BlueMix integration RhoBrowser Debug Ruby+JS LiveUpdate on WP8 & W10 Build system improvement optional ISEQ NPM installer