Emailing "Rhomobile Launches Elite Partners Program for Mobile App Development Platform "
Rhomobile has introduced Rhodes Elite Partners, a group of select mobile development shops who use the company's Rhodes "write once run on many" framework to create native apps for all leading smartphones, including iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Mobile and Symbian.
With the Rhodes platform developers czn use their existing HTML and Ruby knowledge to build native mobile applications, which take full advantage of smartphone capabilities such as GPS, PIM data, geo-location and camera. Using Rhomobile's RhoSync, users of Rhodes-based applications can work with their synchronized local data even when they are offline and disconnected.
"I am very proud to introduce the Rhodes Elite Partner network," said Adam Blum, CEO of Rhomobile, in a statement. "These are development shops that are not only using Rhodes to build native smartphone apps for their clients, but enabling their clients through training and ongoing support, to properly execute a mobile solution within their company."
Here is a list of Rhodes Features:
- Built from the ground up to leverage smartphones in the enterprise
- Allows developers to write app interface in Ruby and HTML and simultaneously build as native apps (not web apps) for all smartphones
- Support for Push Synchronized Data on iPhone and BlackBerry
- Built-in tools for test-driven development
- Database-based event logging
- Interactive debugger (Android/iPhone emulators)
- Allows users to work with synced local data for rapid access and ease of operation when disconnected or offline
-- Full access to device capabilities: GPS, audio and video, PIM contacts, native mapping, camera
Last week, Rhomobile updated Rhodes with new features such as the ability to debug in real-time and support for database-based logging. Another addition to Rhodes is support for the BlackBerry Java Development Environment v5.0, native mapping for BlackBerry and an API for returning screen size. The screensize API enables developers to conditionally handle different screen sizes smoothly, an important tool when approaching diverse platform environments including the BlackBerry and iPad, according to Rhomobile. After the break is a comprehensive list of new and existing Rhodes features.