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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 Blackberry SDK


This section describes the steps to install the Blackberry SDK and set up your development environment for the first time:

  1. Click on the Blackberry Windows installer and then press Next:

  2. Accept the agreement after reading it:

  3. Enter your User Name and Organization:

  4. Select the location where you want to install the Blackberry SDK. You can select the default location to install the SDK:

  5. Click on Install:

Your Blackberry SDK setup is complete and is ready to use.

Android SDK installation

If you want to develop and build applications for Android then we need to install the Android SDK and NDK. This will also include the Android simulator, which would help in testing the code.

Which Operating Systems are supported?

The following operating systems are supported by Android SDK:

  • Windows XP (32-bit), Vista (32- or 64-bit), or Windows 7 (32- or 64-bit)

  • Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later (x86 only)

  • Linux (tested on Ubuntu Linux, Lucid Lynx)

Where to get it from:

We need to install...