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Reserve your space at the Americas AppForum June 4th-6th

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Space and Time Is limited. Reserve your seat by May 18th! If you have not registered yet, time is running out. Click the banner above for more information on the conference. We will have a dedicated RhoMobile Suite track with breakout sessions covering…

Creating an NPAPI Plugin for RhoElements

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Overview Speaking with many of our customers one common question I get asked all the time is "how can we extend the functionality of our RhoElements applications with native code" and one way to do this is by writing an NPAPI plugin. NPAPI (Netscape…

RhoElements New Release Available

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Version 1.0.3.11 has just been released. It is recommended that you upgrade your RhoElements clients to this release. Most notably this is the first release for the ET1 Android platform. Additionally there has been several performance enhancements in…

Rapid Prototyping Mobile Apps With Fluid Layout

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This is another great presentation brought to you by Marakana Tech TV. In this session, Matt Kelly, Lead Software Engineer at interaction design firm ZURB, discusses solutions for rapidly prototyping sites and web apps that work on any kind of device,…

Test

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Using RhoConnect without Rhodes: Objective C Client API The RhoConnect Client is a library that adds sync data capability to your non-Rhodes applications, such as applications created in XCode or Android Java. Using this library, you can enable…

Advanced HTML5 JavaScript

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Although this presentation is geared towards an online multiplayer game, it has some great content covering advanced Javascript/HTML5 APIs: appCache localStorage/sessionStorage History API Web Sockets Web Workers Local Files This video is brought to…

HTML5 RealTime & Connectivity

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In this presentation to the San Francisco HTML5 User Group, Peter Lubbers takes an in-depth look at the different APIs that make up HTML5 communication, as well as some related standards. Topics covered include: *Web Origin Concept *Cross Document…

RhoElements App Spotlight

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Check out this video of a real world implementation of a RhoElements application. It was developed and showcased by one of our partners, Stella Nova, at the Motorola Solutions NRF booth this past week in New York. This application is a great example of…

Licensing RhoElements

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I get a lot of questions about how the licensing model for RhoElements works. You can license your RhoElement runtime by visiting https://softwarelicensing.motorolasolutions.com/. The following documentation is taken from https://softwarelicensing.…

Introduction to Rhodes Platform

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It has been a busy few weeks since my post supporting a few regional developer events as well as promoting this community (which by the way, I am proud to say we are very close to hitting the 1000 user mark). One of the areas I have been spending time…

RhoElements Video Tutorials

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I am blogging to you from our AppForum in Barcelona Spain, where we have been getting some really great feedback on RhoElements. There is a lot of interest in HTML5 and the ability to harness the power of the device capabilities all from within HTML and…

Part 2b - AppForum Dev Lab - Save Scan Data

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Before we get into saving the scan data, let's first load the breakout session data into a drop down so the user can select the presentation that they will be scanning attendees for. Let's open up the index.html file and replace our placeholder inside…

Part 2 - AppForum Dev Lab - WebSQL

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So far we have a basic HTML file (our app) that has placeholders for content and simple javascript functions for enabling the scanner and handling the decode event. In this part of the series, we will discuss WebSQL storage and incorporate that into our…

Adding Finger Scrolling To Your RhoElements App

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You may have read a feature which allows you to do some pretty amazing things, but in this post I will be showing you how to get some simple finger gesturing into you application where you may require scrolling. Right now, the current RhoElements…

Participating Right From Email

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So most of us probably still live very much in an email world. You may love facebook, twitter, etc to communicate with your friends and family, but from a business point of view email is still king. So here are some tips for getting the most out of…

Staying Informed

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So you have registered for a Launchpad account, now what you say? The next thing you should do is follow the spaces you are interested in. Before we get into that, all content in Launchpad is centered around the concept of a Space. Within each space,…