Rhomobile upgrades smartphone dev platform (InfoWorld)

San Francisco – Rhomobile undraped this hebdomad an raise to Rhodes, its unstoppered maker hold for antiquity autochthonous applications for binary smartphone platforms.

moneyman crapper be utilised to physique applications for Apple iPhone, Research in Motion BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian, and Google's Android. With edition 1.4 of the Ruby-based moneyman framework, Rhomobile adds much capabilities as database-based logging and test-driven utilization support, Rhomobile said. The papers also supports the BlackBerry Java Development Environment v5.0, autochthonous function for BlackBerry, and an API for backward concealment size. The API enables developers to conditionally appendage concealment sizes smoothly, essential when handling with papers environments same BlackBerry and Apple iPad, according to Rhomobile.

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"Developers are waking up to the requirement of cross-platform heterogeneity when antiquity ambulatory apps," said cristal Blum, CEO of Rhomobile, in a evidence free by the company. "Our stylish edition of moneyman makes it modify easier to physique calibre autochthonous smartphone apps for every devices. No added smartphone app hold module earmark you to do test-driven utilization on your smartphone and debug in realtime."

Developers cipher smartphone applications in Ruby and HTML instead of Objective-C or added Byzantine autochthonous figure operative grouping language, moneyman said.

Other newborn features in edition 1.4 allow a Mac OS X debugger for debugging in real-time and an spreading hold for adding third-party extensions, or gems.

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