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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 – Filling data from RhoSync


Let's understand how to transfer data to our employee application using the RhoSync server.

First, update the query method in your source adapter company.rb:

  def query(params=nil)
    # TODO: Query your backend data source and assign the records 
    # to a nested hash structure called @result. For example:
@result = {
      "1" => {"name" => "Google"},
      "2" => {"name" => "Microsoft"}
    }
end

In @result, we have hash of hashes where the hash key of the outer hash is the ID of each object (as described above in the query method). Each hash key in the inner hash represents an attribute of an individual object. Whatever value we store in @result, the same values will be sync to device. Note that, all data types must be strings (so the hash values need to all be strings not integers). For example:

@result = {
      "1" => {"name" => "Google"},
      "2" => {"name" => "Microsoft"}
    }

These values will be updated in the...