From: Adam Date: 2009-01-09T13:24:51+09:00 Subject: Rhodes 0.2 released 0.2 Release of Rhodes – the open source mobile application framework Rhomobile announces the 0.2 release of Rhodes, an open source framework for building apps for smartphone operating systems: iPhone, Windows Mobile, Research in Motion Blackberry, and Symbian devices. Developers write their applications one time and they run on all devices: This release, available at the popular open source repository GitHub (http://github.com/rhomobile), features: • Symbian support (for popular smartphones from Nokia, Samsung, and others) • access to PIM information (use the contacts from the device in your app) • build scripts for all operating systems (no need to use XCode, Visual Studio, or other platform-specific development environments) • much faster performance (via incremental synchronization and precompilation of Ruby app sources) The Rhodes development community is eager to start leveraging the new framework capabilities: “Rhodes will allow me to get our mobile interface to Basecamp, TrailGuide, working on all major smartphones, beyond only Windows Mobile which we support today. Writing the app in Ruby and HTML is so much easier than writing it in C# or Objective C. Release 0.2 will allow us to integrate with the device’s contact information which opens up other opportunities for us. ” - Michael Morris, CEO, Carry the Day What is Rhodes? ---------------------- Rhodes is an application framework based upon our own groundbreaking mobile implementation of Ruby for iPhones, Windows Mobile, Blackberries and Symbian. Like Rails, Merb, and other web frameworks it provides an easy to build, maintain, and understand Model-View- Controller structure for developing applications. Rhodes applications are not web applications - they run locally on the mobile device with high performance and reliability due to operating on local data (transparently synchronized to backends via the open source component RhoSync). All this with user interfaces optimized for the device, and taking advantage of unique device capabilities such as GPS and local PIM data. The Rhomobile Mission ------------------------------- Rhomobile, http://www.rhomobile.com, is the open source mobile framework for enterprise applications and data. Our components include the Rhodes mobile application framework (http://github.com/rhomobile/ rhosync/tree/master) and the RhoSync web service synchronization solution (http://github.com/rhomobile/rhosync/tree/master) .