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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 – Three steps to build the Rhodes code


First, make sure that all your latest changes have been committed to the remote repository:

git push origin master. 

We will create build for different devices from the RhoHub account in three easy steps:

Step 1) Click Build: Click on Build at the top of your Rhodes application, a Dialog Box will open:

Step 2) Fill the form: Select the target Device and OS version in the form and click Create a New Build:

Step 3) Yippee! There is no step 3. Wait for the build to complete as it may take a few minutes to complete. Once the build is finished, you will see a green button. Click on the green button to download a zipped file containing an .apk file. The .apk file is an Android executable. All you need to do is to put the .apk on an http server and browse to it from a device and you will be prompted to install the application.

What Just Happened?

In this section, we have learned to create build for different devices and versions from your RhoMobile...