Rhodes Framework
Rhodes is an open source Ruby-based mobile application
framework developed by Motorola Solutions Inc for building
native applications. These applications can run on the iPhone, Android,
Windows Mobile, Windows Phone 7, and RIM.
The developed applications work with with
synchronized data and device capabilities including GPS, PIM
contacts and calendar, camera, native mapping, push, barcode, signature
capture, Bluetooth and Near Field Communications (NFC). Rhodes also has
support for Model View Controller, a hosted build service.
The most common way to install Rhodes is to install RhoMobile
Suite. RhoStudio is an
Eclipse installation that facilitates development of native smartphone
applications.
Features include:
- Supports all major smartphones
- Microframework for building locally executing natively
optimized mobile applications
- Model–View–Controller - an
architecture that separates the representation of information from the
user's interaction with it
- App Store Accepts
- Barcode/Signature Capture / Bluetooth
- HTML5 support
- Hosted offering
- Offline Data sychronization
- Basic Sync
- Metadata Layer
- Uses native Push APIs
- Hosted SaaS Option
- Ruby implementation
- RhoGen app generator
- RhoSync sychronization engine client
- Rhom, a simple object relational manager
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