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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 – Installing Android SDK


This section describes step by step ways to install the Android SDK and set up your development environment for the first time:

  1. Run <sdk>/tools/android on OS X or Linux (<sdk>/SDK Setup.exe on Windows).

  2. Go to Settings | check Force https://... sources to be fetched using http:// and press Save&Apply. Skip this step if you are using the latest version of SDK.

  3. Go to Available | Expand https://dl-ssl.google.com.

  4. Download the latest SDK version, latest platform (SDK Platform 2.2, for example), and the latest Google APIs available.

  5. Click on I nstall:

  6. Set the environment variables ANDROID_HOME to the [directory] where you installed the SDK, and add <sdk path>/tools to PATH.

  7. Download and install the Android NDK.

iPhone SDK installation

If you want to develop and build an application for iPhone then you just need to install the SDK for iPhone. This will also include the iPhone simulator, which will help in testing the code.

Which Operating Systems...