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

  • Explore all of Rhomobiles 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 Rhomobiles four products: Rhodes, RhoSync, RhoHub, and RhoGallery

In Detail

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 Beginners 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 Beginners Guide gives you the freedom to create a mobile web application on the platform of your choice, for the smartphone of your choice.

Create mobile applications for almost any smartphone quickly and with ease

What you will learn from this book

  • 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

Approach

Part of Packts Beginners Guide series, this book is packed full of practical examples and screenshots to make building your application straightforward and fun.

Who this book is written 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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Rhomobile Beginner's Guide

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Abhishek Nalwaya

Reviewers

Deepak Vohra

Brian Moore

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Development Editor

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About the Author

Abhishek Nalwaya is a Ruby, Rhomobile, and Rails enthusiast. He is a regular participant at Ruby/Rails meetups and has taken technical sessions on Rhodes framework within the company and at Ruby meetups. His blog is listed on the official third-party tutorial section at the Rhomobile site.

He was associated with Tata Consultancy Services and is presently working as an application developer with Column Software Technology. He has worked on many projects providing solutions to Fortune 500 companies using Ruby, Rhodes, and Ruby on Rails.

I would like to express my gratitude to my family and friends especially Akshat Paul, Manu Singhal, and Anuj Bhargava who saw me through this book, who provided support, talked things over, read, wrote, offered comments, without which conceiving this book wouldn't have been possible. Also, I would like to thank Sarah, Kartikey, Shubhanjan, and the PacktPub team who allowed me to quote their remarks and assisted in the editing, proofreading, and design. Writing a book was not my cup of tea but they made this complicated journey effortless.

About the Reviewers

Deepak Vora is a consultant and a principal member of the NuBean.com Software Company. Deepak is a Sun Certified Java Programmer and Web Component Developer, and has worked in the fields of XML and Java programming and J2EE for over five years. Deepak is the co-author of the Apress book Pro XML Development with Java Technology and was the technical reviewer for the O'Reilly book WebLogic: The Definitive Guide . Deepak was also the technical reviewer for the Course Technology PTR book Ruby Programming for the Absolute Beginner , and the technical editor for the Manning Publications book Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action . Deepak is also the author of the Packt Publishing book JDBC 4.0 and Oracle JDeveloper for J2EE Development, Processing XML documents with Oracle JDeveloper 11g , and EJB 3.0 Database Persistence with Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g .

Brian Moore is a Senior Engineer at Rhomobile, father of two, and quintessential hacker. Brian began coding at the age of 12. His early love for everything technological led to a job with Apple shortly after high school. Since that time Brian has worked at a series of start-ups and tech companies taking on interesting technical challenges. Brian has become the technical face of Rhomobile as he leads the Rhodes community in the latest Rhomobile innovation during the Friday webinars. When not guiding the next generation of Rhodes developers or hacking on a new debugger, Brian can be found climbing a hill in a remote Southern California desert in his baja bug.

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Preface

The Rhomobile Beginner's guide will speak to every developer's mind, and especially to the technocrats looking for a reliable cross-platform framework encouraging them to explore and try out these wonderful products by Rhomobile. This book guides you step by step to build an enterprise mobile application from scratch, through to deployment.

What this book covers

, What is Rhomobile?: In this chapter, we will briefly discuss the various products of Rhomobile and their architecture.

2, Installation and ConfigurationHow to Set Off: In this chapter, we will learn to install the necessary softwares that are required before developing our mobile application using Rhomobile.

, Instant GratificationCreate Your First Application: In this chapter, we will create our first application and understand how Rhodes structures the application.

, RhomPlaying with the Local Database: In this chapter, we'll explore Rhom, which is an Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) provided by Rhodes and take a look at how it manipulates data in our application. We'll find how ORM manages table relationships in this chapter and also dig into the ORM object life cycle.

, RhoSyncSynchronizing your data: In this chapter, we will learn about the synchronization framework RhoSync that keeps application data current and available on user's smart phones. We will create a sample RhoSync application and connect with a Rails application to put the current data on the device.

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