This document discusses cross-platform mobile application development using Rhomobile and jQuery Mobile. It provides an overview of the Rhomobile platform, how to get started with Rhodes for developing apps, and live demos of sample apps. Contact and community information is also included.
4. List the Native Smart Phone Languages
Store Operating System Language
App Store IOS Objective C
Android Market Android OS Java and NDK
App World BlackBerry Java ME + custom API’s
Windows Market Place Windows Mobile and .NET, C#, Sliver light
Windows Phone
Palm App Store Palm WebOS HTML/JS/C/C++
Nokia OVI store Symbian C++ and others
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5. Mobile Web Frameworks
• jQuery Mobile : Mobile HTML Framework
from JQuery
• Sencha Touch : Mobile JavaScript Framework,
counterpart to the Ext JS framework
• jQTouch : Mobile HTML Framework(Not Under
development)
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6. Mobile App vs Native App
Mobile App Native Apps
Use of advanced browsers. Make use of device
characteristics.
Requires very little Potential to have offline
knowledge related to capabilities
device.
Works on all devices Better usability because it’s
irrespective of OS. device specific
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7. Cross Platform Mobile App
• What ?
– Write once and build it for all SmartPhone
Operating System
• Why ?
– Building applications for each
device(iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile and
more)requires different frameworks and
languages
– Single Codebase
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8. List of Cross Platform Mobile
Frameworks
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11. Rhodes - Overview
• Rhodes is a framework for building cross-
platform mobile apps.
• Execute locally
• Access to all device capabilities
• Store data locally
• Synchronize to enterprise systems using
RhoConnect (RhoSync)
• Generic HTTP access (AsyncHTTP)
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12. Supported Platforms
• BlackBerry
– BlackBerry 4.6, 4.7, 5.0, 6.0
– 4.2 and 4.5 are supported but database access is very
slow on these devices.
• Windows Mobile
– Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, 6.0 Standard
• Android
– Android 1.6 and greater
• iPhone
– All versions of iPhone 3.0 or greater, iPad
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