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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 Development Environments—IDE


There is no shortage of Ruby-supported IDEs. You can use any IDE of your choice that supports Ruby. All are cross-platform, and have plenty of nice features. I encourage you to try them and see if they work for you. The following IDEs are my personal choices that I would recommend:

  • Macintosh OS X: textmate

  • Linux: gedit

  • Windows Netbeans, Redrails, Ruby-mine, Scite

You can choose any one of the above IDEs. Also, Rhomobile recently launched RhoStudio Beta, the IDE for Rhomobile. It is a local Eclipse IDE that performs app generation, editing, and build of all Rhodes projects. You can download Rhostudio from https://github.com/rhomobile/rhostudio/.

What just happened?

We have just installed your favourite IDE on the platform that you are using. Now we are ready to create our first application.