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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 – Creating a gallery


To get started with RhoGallery, follow these steps:

  1. Create a new gallery by clicking Create Gallery.

  2. A dialog box will be open; enter Name, Description, and choose an Icon for your gallery and then click Create Gallery:

  3. Add a new application to your gallery by clicking Add a new App:

  4. Now, there are four steps to create an application. In the first step, enter your App Name, Description, and Icon for your application:

  5. Now, specify the target device, Application Version, Application ID, Security Token, and click Next. Here, the target device is the platform for which we want to generate the build. Application Version is for the versioning of your application. App ID is generated by Apple and Security Token is for restricting the access to the application which is the same as that mentioned in your application's build.yml:

  6. Upload build files, link to external builds, or add existing RhoHub builds to your application:

  7. Go to http://bit.ly/getrho on your mobile device...