Rhomobile drives in with the latest rendition of the powerful smartphone app framework known as Rhodes 2.0. Through the new software, developers can formulate native apps for smartphones such as Symbian, BlackBerry, iPhone, Windows Mobile, Android and iPad. Developers can expect optimized native styling, faster sync, a metadata framework and advanced multimedia support.
The Rhodes 2.0 provides support for bi-directional audio and video streaming. This allows seamless addition of playback capabilities and live audio and video capture to smartphone apps. The software brings to the forefront metadata framework for better communicating with backend enterprise systems with changing schemas. With the help of the latest offering, developers can alter the attributes in the back-end enterprise application which can directly be seen on the application.
Adam Blum, CEO of Rhomobile commented, “Rhodes 2.0 is faster, more powerful and now, through the MIT license, is completely free. With exclusives including an Object Relational Manager and the only Model View Controller framework for smartphone app development, Rhodes allows developers to rapidly create cross-platform mobile apps with the logic and features required by the enterprise mobile workforce.”
True sync to mobile apps is achieved as Rhodes integrates with RhoSync which in turn allows data to be more accessible to users’ who are either offline or disconnected. The employment of Rhodes 2.0 in memory data caching makes sync much quicker. The smartphone app framework lowers development time by up to five times on a single OS, according to the company. Rhodes also offers integrated tools for test-driven development as well as interactive debugger for Android and iPhone emulators.
Rhodes 2.0 can be acquired absolutely free of cost. The public beta is already underway while the final framework will be available later this month. The company will be showcasing this software during the Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco.