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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

Creating the first view using metadata


We will now create the first view using metadata. You may be wondering what a view means. Basically, a view is an erb file, which contains HTML and a little bit of Ruby code. These views are traditionally meant to be at the client device but metadata allows you to have them at the server. The advantage of having these views at the server is: if you want to change any view, you just need to change it at the server and it would be reflected at the client without the need for reinstalling at the client.

Generally, we will use metadata when our views are not fixed and keep changing. For using metadata there are many templates available that can be used directly. A view can be a collection of a number of templates.

The following labels are reserved and used by the metadata framework for specifying the template to be used:

  • :type : Type label is used to define the template which we want to use. There are various templates available with rhodes-translator gem...