Rhodes Framework for Android™ Platform and BlackBerry® Smartphones

verfasst von: Deepak Vohra

Verlag: Springer US

Buchreihe : SpringerBriefs in Computer Science

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The Rhodes framework offers several advantages over other mobile frameworks. Some of the unique features of the Rhodes frameworks are as follows:

- The only smartphone framework to offer support for the Model View Controller pattern

- The only smartphone framework to offer support for the Object-Relational manager

-The only smartphone framework to offer offline, disconnected access to data with the Rho-Synch server

- The only smartphone framework to support all mobile devices including Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, Symbian, and Windows

- Provides Ruby implementations for all smartphone device operating systems

-Provides a web-based Integrated Development Environment for developing mobile applications for all smartphone platforms with the RhoHub development service

This book discusses developing Rhodes applications for Android and the BlackBerry platform, as these are the two most commonly used mobile platforms. For each, an application for creating a catalog and another application for getting RSS feed will be developed.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter

Chapter 1. Rhodes on Android™ Platform

Abstract

Smartphones have proliferated in recent years creating a need for smartphone apps. Android™ is the most commonly used smartphone platform. Ruby is an open source, dynamic, interpreted programming language. Rhodes is the only framework for mobile devices that supports MVC architecture, and provides an Object Relational Manager. In this chapter we shall, first, introduce using Rhodes on Android, and subsequently develop a Rhodes application to get RSS feed for a magazine on Android. To parse XML Rhodes includes the RhoXML parser and support for the ReXML parser may be added.

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Chapter 2. Rhodes on BlackBerry® Smartphones

Abstract

BlackBerry® has more than 30% (ranked 2nd) of the smartphone market share. In this chapter we shall, first, introduce using Rhodes on Blackberry JDE, and subsequently develop a Rhodes application to get RSS feed for a magazine on Blackberry JDE. Rhodes uses XRuby to generate the Java code from Ruby code. XRuby compiles Ruby classes to Java class files. Though the Rhodes application is a Ruby application, actually the BlackBerry JDE runs Java, which has been compiled from Ruby. The Ruby and Rhodes installation and configuration procedure is the same as in Chap. 1, but is discussed in this chapter for completeness. The Rhodes application is also the same as in Chap. 1, but is discussed in the context of BlackBerry.

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Titel: Rhodes Framework for Android™ Platform and BlackBerry® Smartphones
verfasst von: Deepak Vohra
Verlag: Springer US
Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4614-3579-2
Print ISBN: 978-1-4614-3578-5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3579-2