TheOpenAnalyst

A startup called Rhomobile announced the first formal release of its dual-licensed, open-source framework for smartphones. Rhodes 1.0 enables “write-once” development, using HTML and Ruby, of native smartphone applications for iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian, and now Android, the company says.

Rhodes reduces development costs by “up to five times” by eliminating the need to develop similar applications for each mobile operating system (OS), and by using HTML instead of “diverse and complex native device OS languages,” claims Rhomobile. The Rhodes framework supports commonly implemented smartphone capabilities such as GPS, PIM data, and camera functionality, says the company. The Android support was added in time for the final release, adds Rhomobile.

Open-source mobile framework supports Android

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