Rhomobile announced that its Rhodes smartphone app framework now supports Android 2.0, allowing interested companies to utilize their HTML and Ruby skills and create native applications for the Android platform. As a result, using the company’s RhoHub, development costs can be reduced by up to five times.
Among the RhoHub features we highlight:
- Support for multiple platforms — including iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian and Android
- Developers can write apps in HTML and simultaneously build for all smartphones
- Generate UIs and sync source adapters from a high level object description
- Collaborate with other users by sharing projects
- Hosting of synchronization server for backend app integration and availability of offline data
As for the availability information, RhoHub comes in three “flavors”: the Free tier is for public apps with 3-runtime users and 50MB disk space; the Basic service allows for 3 private apps, 3 private collaborators with 100-runtime users and 2GB disk space; and RhoHub’s Premium service which offers 100 private apps, 100 private collaborators with 1000-runtime users and 20GB disk space… Additional information is available from Rhomobile’s website.