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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

RhoHub online editor


RhoHub 3.0 has an HTML5 project editor complete with a Git interface. We can edit the code directly from the web interface and commit that code.

RhoHub editor supports:

  • Editing Ruby/HTML/CSS/JavaScript files

  • Viewing image files

  • Uploading of local files into the editor

  • Adding, removing, and renaming of files and directories

  • Git commit and reset actions to files

To open the editor, click on the Launch Editor link on your current project:

It will open the code for both the Rhodes and the RhoSync applications:

We can observe that on the left-hand side there is a full menu showing our Rhodes and RhoSync application files. We can open these files by clicking them and we can also edit them. We can even open multiple files together. The RhoHub editor also allows you to perform the following tasks with your Rhodes and RhoSync applications:

  • Creation of Models for your Rhodes application

  • Creation of Builds of your Rhodes application for various platforms

  • Creation of a source adapter for your...