Interview with Rhomobile: GPL3 Cross-Platform Mobile App Development In Ruby
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In this interview with Rhomobile founder Adam Blum we discuss their GPL3 framework for creating cross-platform mobile apps, their GPL3 mobile data sync-server, their hosted offering to simplify cross-platform mobile app builds, and the work they did to get Ruby onto an iPhone.
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For easy scanning of the interview, here is what was covered and when:
- 1:00 The “future of mobile” — tag/imperative programming approaches; occasional disconnectedness; web standards, but with a delay
- 4:00 Overview of Rhodes cross-platform app creation
- 5:00 Rhodes: MVC framework, native apps atop html templates
- 6:00 Ruby on iPhone
- 10:00 Minimalist ORM persistence model
- 11:00 Data synchronization with Rhosync
- 12:00 Native experience from HTML UI?
- 15:00 Performance
- 19:00 Cross platform considerations
- 20:00 RhoHub: build for other platforms on their servers
- 21:00 Open source licensing, commercial options
- 22:00 Non GPL pricing
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