Rhomobile cross-platfrom

Outline

What is RhoMobilie?

MVC model

What is RhoMobilie?

What is cross-platform development?

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“write once, run everywhere”

Should you design for multiple platform or not?

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Greater Reach

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Easy Marketing

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One Instead of Many

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Uniform Look and Feel

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Reduced Development Costs

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User Interaction

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Platform Integration

The Rhomobile

Rhomobile Inc. is a computer software company

that provides leading products for building the

new generation of mobile applications.

It offers an open-source Ruby-based mobile

development framework for business mobility

solutions through its four major products:

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Rhodes

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Rhosync

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RhoHub

The Rhomobile

It enables software programmers to build

straightforward applications for mobile

devices using HTML and Ruby instead of

proprietary languages such as Objective-C or

Java.

Currently, the Rhodes framework supports

development for the iPhone, Windows

Why Rhodes?

Rhodes is a cross platform mobile application framework used to build

native apps which runs in different smartphones…

Rhodes supports iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile, Research in Motion

(BlackBerry), Symbian, and Windows Phone 7…

 Unparalleled developer

productivity

 Synchronized data and easy

app integration

Why Rhodes for your

customer?

Your customer is always on the go

Most of your customers own a smartphone

Provide Real Time updates

Rhodes Architecture

RhoSync

App

Integration

Server

your app code

Rhosync mobile app

integration process…

 Easiest way to integrate with enterprise applications

 Fastest most scalable mobile sync server ever

RhoHub

First and only “Development as a Service for mobile”

More than 15,000 developers signed up in the last year

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~100 more per day

Hosted development – WRITE APPS FOR IPHONES FROM WINDOWS

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Web-based IDE for ease of use

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Build for all smartphones online – no need to install SDKs

Hosted runtime

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No need to set up RhoSync server

Collaboration

RhoGallery

RhoGallery provides a hosted mobile app

management solution.

It enables users to launch all of their important

enterprise apps from a single place

RhoGallery consists of a management console

for "app galleries" on RhoHub

RhoGallery makes it easy to expose those apps

to their users

Summary: Why Rhomobile?

Rhodes Runs Everywhere

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Write once – run on every smartphone

Only MVC framework for smartphones

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Use web development skills to write NATIVE apps

Only framework with sync

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Enables smartphone usage in the enterprise

Only Development as a Service for mobile

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Write apps without installing SDKs locally

Only Framework that is Enterprise Security Compliant

Rhodes vs. Competition

Only one that supports all devices

Only one with synchronized data

Only MVC framework

First Ruby on the device

Rhodes FAQs/Facts

Rhodes is Performant

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Rhodes apps are faster because of sync

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Actually faster on Android

Rhodes is Native

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Rhodes uses several “native controls” (date/time picker, native

mapping)

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With “native extensions” any Objective C (or C, C++) code can

be added to Rhodes

Rhodes is Acceptable on the App Store

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Rhodes has no runtime or interpreter

Rhodes is Beautiful

MVC

Model–view–controller is:

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a software pattern for implementing user interfaces.

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It divides a given software application into three

interconnected parts: Model, Controller, View.

MVC

Advantages:

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Professional

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Clarity of design

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Multiple views

MVC

Disadvantages:

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Knowledge on multiple technologies are

required.

How Rhodes stores data

Property Bag:

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is the default option available.

Property Bag

The table contains the following columns:

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Source_id

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attribute

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object

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value

Property Bag

Advantages

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It is simple to use, attributes are not required to be

specified before use.

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Don't need to migrate data if we add/remove

attributes.

Disadvantages

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Size is three times bigger than the fixed schema

Fixed Schema model

Fixed Schema model

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The developer is entirely responsible for the

structure of the SQL schema.

Advantages

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Smaller size, you can specify index for only

required attributes.

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Faster sync time than Property bag.

Disadvantage

Demonstration

Environment:

Demonstration

Demonstration

Set language for non-Unicode programs:

Demonstration

Demonstration

• Model: <model_name>.

rb

• Controller: <model_name>_controller.

rb

Demonstration

Resources

http://docs.rhomobile.com

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Tutorials

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Developer References

http://rhomobile.com/products/rhodes

http://rhohub.com

[email protected]

Rhomobile Google Group