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Rhomobile Beginner's Guide

By : Abhishek Nalwaya
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Rhomobile Beginner's Guide

By: Abhishek Nalwaya

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Rhomobile Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – Build it for different smart phones


It's time to make the first build for our application and see the magic that the Rhogen command has done. We will build our employee application for iPhone, Android, and Blackberry.

Let's go to the application directory and build it for iPhone, Blackberry, Android, and Windows phone:

$ cd employee_application

We will now learn about the rake command, which will help us when building our application. To get all the options available with the rake command, go to your application directory and type:

rake -T

You will get a list of all the options available with rake command:

rake clean:android              # Clean Android
rake clean:bb                   # Clean bb
rake clean:iphone               # Clean iphone
rake clean:win32                # Clean win32
rake clean:wm                   # Clean wm
rake clobber_rdoc               # Remove rdoc products
rake config:checkbb             # Check local blackberry configuration
rake device:android:debug...