World's First Mobile Development As a Service Offering Simplifies Native Smartphone App Development

CUPERTINO, Calif., Nov. 3 -- Rhomobile, the makers of the Rhodes smartphone app framework, today announced the production release of RhoHub, the world's first Development-as-a-Service for mobile. RhoHub simplifies the process of building native mobile applications for iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Android phones by offering a cloud-based development and hosting solution for crossplatform native smartphone apps.

"RhoHub has enabled us to generate, edit, compile and run our iPhone and Android app, TrackR - a mobile version of Pivotal Tracker - all on the web, giving us unmatched flexibility in our build environment," said Jonathan Tarud, CEO of Koombea. "RhoHub also provides automatic hosted sync - a huge differentiator over similar apps on the AppStore."

The RhoHub production release offers new features including public apps, collaboration with other users and building for iPhone. By offering Development-as-a-Service with RhoHub, Rhomobile is reducing development time allowing developers to build native smartphone applications without having to download the Rhodes framework or install specific smartphone OS SDKs on their machines.

Rhomobile's Rhodes smartphone app framework enables developers to leverage existing HTML and Ruby knowledge to build native mobile applications, which take full advantage of smartphone capabilities such as GPS, PIM data, geo-location and camera. Using Rhomobile's RhoSync, users of Rhodes-based applications can work with their synchronized local data even when they are offline and disconnected.

By allowing developers to code native smartphone applications in HTML on a hosted service instead of in difficult device programming languages on a desktop, Rhodes reduces development costs by up to five times, even for a single device operating system. RhoHub allows developers to collaborate on building native smartphone apps from any location. RhoHub generates client and server application code as HTML templates for the Rhodes client and source adapters for the RhoSync server, simplifying the development process.

"Developers have the ability to write code online from the RhoHub website anywhere making the build process faster and more affordable," said Adam Blum, CEO of Rhomobile. "Up until this point, RhoHub has been in beta and after hosting thousands of users on our service we wanted to enhance the service with collaboration-oriented features."

Rhomobile will be offering training on how to create native smartphone applications using Rhodes and RhoHub at the Rhomobile offices in Cupertino on Friday, November 6th from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. PT. Registration is available at http://rhomobile.com/documentation/training.

  RhoHub Features:
  --  Generate user interfaces and sync source adapters from a high level
      object description
  --  Rich web color syntax editor for HTML templates and Ruby code
  --  Automated build for all major domestic smartphones
  --  Collaborate with other users by sharing projects

  --  Hosting of synchronization server for backend app integration and
      availability of offline data


  About Rhomobile

Rhomobile, Inc. offers the world's leading open source framework for business mobility solutions. Founded in 2008 by a team of Silicon Valley veterans, the company's award winning software has hundreds of active developers and is ideal for independent software vendors, system integrators and enterprises of all sizes. Powered by a revolutionary approach to mobile application development, Rhomobile offers comprehensive, modern, highly adaptable and low-cost solutions and support services to developers around the world. Rhomobile, headquartered in Cupertino, CA, is a privately held company with backing from vSpring Capital. For more information, please visit www.rhomobile.com.

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