Adam Blum

We are proud to announce that Rhomobile has been acquired by Motorola Solutions (MSI).  For those who are not familiar with MSI, this is the part of the original Motorola that focuses specifically on solutions for businesses and governments.  All Rhomobile products will continue to be sold and supported globally.  Rhodes will continue to be available open source under the MIT License. With our shared passion in enabling enterprise mobility, Motorola Solutions is an ideal partner: We have the shared focus on the enterprise with a strong commitment to partners. Motorola Solutions will provide the scale, resources, industry knowledge to accelerate universal adoption of Rho technology. Motorola Solutions is strategically committed to the Rhomobile suite of products Motorola Solutions is committed to supporting the Rhomobile community and continuing the open source her... (more)

More about RhoConnect

It’s one thing when we talk about how much time, code, and problems are saved using RhoConnect — it’s another when a customer validates it publicly. Solid Innovation is a successful and established company that provides route accounting systems, allowing mobile invoicing and inventory control for store distribution with everything fully integrated into the backend ERP system. For Solid Innvoation, the integration with ERP is a must and they have spent the last 11 years developing their own integration capability. That’s all changing with RhoConnect. As Kris Peters, their head o... (more)

Zero Source Code Mobile App Integration: Announcing RhoConnect 3.0!

Rhomobile has always been focused on providing a modern open and standards-based way to mobilize enterprise apps. The first product we offered for that was Rhodes, an open source framework which makes it easy to build native smartphone apps using your web skills. But we also offered RhoSync, a modern mobile sync server that synchronizes data from backend applications down to the Rhodes apps on devices. We were proud that we made mobile data synchronization much easier, faster and more scalable than any of the other aging MEAP platforms that offer synchronization today. What we ... (more)

The First Mobile Ruby

Our open source framework Rhodes contains the first implementation of Ruby for every major smartphone operating system: iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Symbian. The primary benefits of the Rhodes framework are: the productivity and portability enabled by writing interfaces in HTML once (and compiling to native smartphone apps), access to device capabilities from a common library used on all smartphone devices and the ability to easily incorporate synchronized data for offline use. But that said, we may have been underestimating the benefits that Ruby has for mobi... (more)

App Store Rules

The iPhone and the Apple App Store have been THE critical agents in changing the mobile consumer’s attitude with regard to mobile applications.  Specifically they have converted virtually all smartphone users (beyond just the iPhone) to wanting and expecting to use native apps on their mobile devices.  This is a huge sea change in behavior, especially for U.S. consumers.  As enabling technology for building smartphone apps, we (Rhomobile) are hugely grateful for the investment that Apple made here and resulting success of this new category of software.  I also personally apprec... (more)