Questions tagged [rhodes]

Rhodes is an open source Ruby-based cross-platform development framework designed to create native applications. Developers utilize a standard MVC architecture using Ruby and HTML-templating (ERB), including constructs to interact natively with the device. The framework's write-once:deploy-many approach currently supports building to iOS, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Mobile, Big Windows (XP, 7 and 8) and Windows Phone.

Rhodes is an open source framework with MIT license that allows to build cross-platform native mobile applications using web skills. It's part of the RhoMobile Suite.

Source code of Rhodes are available on the public github repository.

The RhoMobile Suite is an enterprise mobility suite of products distributed by Motorola Solutions to develop, integrate, deploy and manage your enterprise mobile applications.

Components of the RhoMobile Suite are:

  • RhoStudio - IDE based on Eclipse for Windows and OS X
  • Rhodes - Opensource Frameworks with MIT license to build B2C application
  • RhoElements - based on Rhodes, adds functionality like support for Windows Mobile, requires a license to be used without a nag-screen
  • RhoConnect - Integration and synchronization engine - requires a license to be used
  • RhoHub - Cloud service to develop Rhodes/RhoElements apps & hosting RhoConnect
  • RhoGallery - Enterprise Application Management. Simple and Easy to use

Motorola Solutions has built Launchpad, a community site with recorded webinars, documentation, blogs and public forum for all the interested developers. is part of the suite of RhoMobile (now a Motorola company) products used for developing client side mobile applications.

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Save a picture of a signature to a file in Rhodes on Android

I am trying to implement signature capture using Rhodes targeting an Android tab. I have managed to get the canvas and scribble on it. But am unable to save the signature at a desired location. The signature_uri takes the default location as…
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How do cross-platform mobile app development frameworks work?

How are Rhodes, Phonegap, and Appcelerator able to take Javascript or Ruby, and compile them into binaries for app SDKs that normally require apps to be written in Obj-C, Java, and others?
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How to get github token using username and password

I am developing mobile apps using rhodes. I want to access private repo of github. I am having only username and password. How to get token of given username and password.
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Developing Cross Platform Mobile application in latest frameworks (Rhodes, PhoneGap, jQTouch)

We have recently developed an iPhone, iPad, Android application with the Rhodes framework and have found it to be painful to say the least. As we are approaching the finishing stages and now testing the app in mobile devices we find more bugs than…
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ruby on android : ruboto vs rhodes?

Has anyone tried developing an Android app using Ruby? If so, which tool would you recommend? What are the advantages and disadvantages, comparing (between) both? Any sharing of experience, insight, etc., would be much appreciated.
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AngularJS $sce.getTrustedResourceUrl(templateUrl) error

I am working on a simple application in RhoMobile and I am using AngularJS with it. When defining routeProvider, I have come to the strangest issue I have seen. I tried many things, like chaning the path for templateUrl defining an explicit one, but…
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how to invoke a method for every second in ruby

I wanted to create a stopwatch program in ruby so I googled it and found this SO Q. But over there, the author calls the tick function with 1000xxx.times. I wanted to know how I can do it using something like (every second).times or for each…
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Xml processor module not found error when try to consume soap service by using soap4r

I am trying to consume soap web service by soap4r gem. I am using ryby 1.8.7 rails 2.3.4 soap4r 1.5.8 rhodes 3.2.3 I tried the following in IRB. require "rubygems" require "soap/wsdlDriver" wsdl =…
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Rhodes or Titanium for Rails app in iphone?

Hi i wanted to develop an iphone app with Ruby.. Is Rhodes or Titanium the best option? i need to integrate GPS and google maps
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jquery mobile flashes previous page after transition

Have page have list with link to show item. when I click back to list item from show page, it goes back to list, flashes show page and comes back to list.
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Rhodes : Error!!! Wrong Android API version

I just did un-installation of instant_rhodes-2.4.1.exe and install instant_rhodes-3.0.0.exe to Windows 7 Now when I rhodes app HelloWorld cd HelloWorld rake run:android it show me Error!!! Wrong Android API version how do I correct this…
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Rhodes v/s Titanium

Which is the best framework to develop cross platform application. Especially for android and iphone. I have been through the reviews present over the internet, but those seem to be pretty old. I believe both Titanium and Rhodes have developed much…
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Rhomobile : How to remove bottom toolbar in device

Am working on mobile applications using Rhomobile Rhodes. Everything is working fine but I'm having trouble figuring out how to remove the bottom toolbar (with the back, foward, home, refresh) in device. So How to remove the bootom toolbar in…
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"Cannot find Rhodes" creating a new Rhodes application in Eclipse

I just started with Rhodes cross platform mobile application development. I followed the rhostudio tutorial to install RhoStudio and to start creating a Rhodes application. Once I click the Finish button in create new project wizard I get an error…
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Can't run sample rhodes application

I installed Android sdk version and Andorid ndk . Using Android SDK and AVD Manager, i installed SDK Plaform Android 2.2, API8, rev3 and 1.6, API4, revsion3 When i try rake run:android I got the error…
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