rhodes

Official iPhone SDK for Mac needed to test/build RhoHub applications?

I've seen conflicting information on this. If I'm using RhoHub (Rhodes) to build an iPhone application, do I need to have a Mac in front of me or use their SDK with some kind of virtualized trickery? Or does Rhodes include a native Windows solution for testing/deployment? I'm currently in a Windows XP environment. ...

App development for both smartphone and website?

Hi all, I've been looking at mobile development frameworks including Rhodes, Titanium, and PhoneGap. As a large part of the application we're developing will also be integrated on the web (a game), we'd love to re-use code so as to not reinvent the wheel. Is there a best way to accomplish this? Is there a framework out there with whi...

RhoMobile LOV (List Of Values)

Does anyone know how to implement a LOV (List Of Values) search in an RhoMobile Application? I need to put a field with the customer's code, where the user can find the code by typing the name of the customer, that is one of more than a thousand of possible values. Thanks in advance. ...

What do you think of Rhodes framework?

When developing for mobile applications I want to target multi platforms, thus, i found that Rhodes Framework allows to code "a single application that works on all major smartphones". As it's a ruby framework and I'm not a ruby programmer, I want to know if it's worth it ! Is Rhodes working well in a production enviroment what custo...

What does "" (two double quotes) do in Ruby?

I've seen Ruby code in which there are only two double quotes ("") on a line. What does that line do? ...

Page navigation problem in Rhomobile Rhodes app

On a page in a model, I'm showing two links 'Choose Picture' and 'Take Picture'. I'm suceessfully successfully returning to that page after choosing picture and the chosen image is being shown correctly. However, when I click 'Take Picture', camera opens up, I take picture, the calling page loads with image shown and then immediately the...

Rhodes app signing for BlackBerry

I read that BlackBerry signing keys can be only installed on one PC. I'm compiling my Rhomobile Rhodes app on one PC. But the BlackBerry signing keys are installed on another PC. What I need to do in order to sign the app on another PC. PS: I've set bbsignpwd in rhobuild.yml. ...

Unzip files and/or streams in rhomobile

How do I decompress a compressed file in a rhomobile application? I saw that the zlib extension is unavailable in rhodes, because it needs a ruby port. Ruby uses the "zlib.c" or "zlib.h" source files and not a portable zlib. When running the rhodes application, in a line with the source: require 'zlib' it raises the error: no such f...

Writing a mobile phone radio station app - is Javascript/HTML/CSS viable, or do we need to go native?

I want to write an app that will stream MP3s from a server to any of the three major smartphone operating systems in the US (iPhone, Blackberry, and Android). Here is the tradeoff I'm concerned with: if I write the app natively, it will make for the best user experience and give me the capability to add many more features if I want, but...

asynchttp and rhomobile

Hello, How can i display JSON data in a rhomobile application without saving it to a database? thanks ...