Rhomobile Beginner's Guide: Step-by-step instructions to build an enterprise mobile web application from scratch

Name: Rhomobile Beginner's Guide: Step-by-step instructions to build an enterprise mobile web application from scratch
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Abhishek Nalwaya

Jul 2011 · Packt Publishing Ltd

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Step-by-step instructions to build an enterprise mobile web application from scratchKey Features

Explore all of Rhomobile's features and products through the creation of a mobile web application
Step-by-step instructions help you to build an enterprise mobile web application from scratch, through to deployment
Clear guides for developing applications on iPhone, Blackberry, and other smartphones
Learn how to use Rhomobile's four products: Rhodes, RhoSync, RhoHub, and RhoGallery

Book DescriptionThe 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.What you will learn

Install Rhomobile products on Windows, Mac and Linux
Create a basic Rhodes 3 application that interacts with the database
Fetch data from backend services and display it on your phone
Create a native User Interface for your chosen smartphone
Write unit test cases for your application
Deploy your Rhosync 2.1 application to Rhohub to create a build for your smartphone
Generate views from the server using Metadata
Make use of device capabilities such as Push and GPS

Who this book is for

Whether you have prior experience of developing mobile applications or this is your first venture, all newcomers to Rhomobile will be able to quickly develop their own mobile application. This book is accessible for people who are completely new to Ruby, though having prior knowledge of it would be a huge advantage.

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About the author

Abhishek Nalwaya is the author of the book, Rhomobile Beginner's Guide. He is a Ruby enthusiast and loves to participate regularly at Ruby and Ruby on Rails meetup groups. He works for a Management Consulting firm. He has spoken at many conferences, meetups, and was the speaker at RubyConf India 2012 and RubyMotion Conference 2013.

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