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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

Push data to your phone


RhoSync has a simple Ruby API for sending push notifications to a user's device. This API can be called directly, queued as a resque job, or called remotely via the RhoSync REST API. The push message can trigger the following actions in the Rhodes application: alert with a message, sync one or more sources, vibrate, display a badge, play a sound file.

We will now show you how to use the RhoSync application to deliver push messages on each platform and how you can handle the push notification in your Rhodes application.

Set up the Rhodes application for Push

First, enable push in your Rhodes application in build.yml:

capabilities:
  - push
  - vibrate #=> if you want to enable vibrate in your push messages

Next, your RhoSync application should be running on a network that is accessible to your device. For example, you might have your RhoSync application running on a LAN with IP 192.168.1.40, PORT 9292. Then make sure your device is connected to the same LAN and set up...