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September 28 2010

RhoHub adds iPhone/iPad build capability

Hello Smartphone Developers, Today we are proud to announce the ability to perform iOS builds on RhoHub, our hosted service for smartphone app development. Yes, this means that you can now build iPhone and iPad apps right from your Windows or Linux-based computer (and Macs of course). We provide instructions on how to generate certificates [...]

September 28 2010

BlackBerry validates the the “write native apps with web skills” category that Rhodes created

We were excited to read about the BlackBerry WebWorks Application Platform which was released yesterday. It is yet more validation of the “use your web skills to write native smartphone apps” approach that Rhomobile invented two years ago. For developers that want to target all smartphones (not just BlackBerry), or provide synchronized offline data, or [...]

September 09 2010

Apple update

Hello Rhodes scholars, Today Apple clarified that use of frameworks (a category which Rhomobile invented two years ago with the Rhodes framework) is completely acceptable. The only thing that an app can’t do is download code on the fly. Rhodes has always taken extra steps (such as disallowing “eval”) to make this very difficult to [...]

September 05 2010

Rhodes 2.1 native UI enhancements and RhoSync 2.0 support for Objective C

This was an exciting week of releases all across the product line at Rhomobile. As blogged about last week, RhoHub 2.0 was launched. This is a complete rearchitecture of the original RhoHub product. It allows for use of local IDEs and editors while still getting the benefits of hosted build, collaboration and hosted RhoSync 2.0. [...]