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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 RhoHub project


We will create an employee project on RhoHub. It will be a combination of Rhodes and RhoSync applications. Follow these steps:

  1. Log in to RhoHub with the login and password that you created during registration.

  2. Click on Create Project:

  3. A dialog box will appear for creating a project. Enter your project name and description. Uncheck Generate Apps as we already have an application that we will deploy. If you are generating an application you can also select the RhoSync version otherwise it will take that information from the configuration files:

  4. Your project detail will pop up on the screen that has all the Git commands to manage your application:

What Just Happened?

We have created an employee project in RhoHub. This contains a Rhodes and a RhoSync application.

Pop Quiz

1. Where can we host the RhoSync server?

a. We can host it on Heroku

b. We can host it on Amazon S3

c. We can host it on our own server.

d. All of the above

2. Can more than one developer work...