Rhomobile Intros Rhodes Framework For iPhone 3G S

Rhomobile reportedly introduced its latest smartphone platform, the Rhodes development framework, for building applications to run with the iPhone (News - Alert) OS 3.0 and on Apple’s latest gizmo, the iPhone 3G S.

 

Officials at the company claim the Rhodes framework is based on a "write once and run on many" fundamental that significantly boosts developers’ efficiency since they can concentrate on creating and updating new Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML) based apps for the iPhone 3G S without having to rewrite code for every OS update.

 

This method reduces development effort, including the cost component, by at least five times than in the past because it enables developers to code native smartphone applications in HTML instead of in Objective-C, or other complex native device operating system languages. It also takes advantage of the smartphone capabilities, such as GPS, PIM data and camera.

 

In a somewhat similar scenario, a market sampling exercise of code reuse had previously resulted in saving more than 316,000 staff years, which in turn translates to holding on to (and not spending) tens of billions of dollars in development cost efforts, TMCnet reported.

 

"Rhodes is a very easy way to make an application for the iPhone," said Adam Blum, chief executive officer of Rhomobile, in a statement. "The Rhodes framework enables anyone, from enterprise developers who want to mobilize their workforce to a consumer who wants to build fun and clever apps, to build powerful mobile applications with about twenty percent of the code used in iPhone apps today."

 

The new framework is also available as open source realtime on public repositories; allows developers to write apps for all smartphones and mobile platforms used such as iPhone, BlackBerry (News - Alert), Windows Mobile, Symbian and Android. Users can work with synced local data for rapid access when disconnected or offline, according to the company.

 

 The company says that the Rhodes framework is now available at flexible pricing options suitable for a range of Smartphone application efforts with dual license models - under GPLv3 for open source apps and commercial licensing options for enterprises and Independent Software Vendors.