Present and Future of the RhoMobile platform. Migrating legacy applications, Node.js on mobile devices right now and more

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1 Present and Future of the RhoMobile platform Migrating legacy applications, Node.js on mobile devices right now and more

2 Key facts about RhoMobile and Tau RhoMobile founded RhoMobile acquired by Motorola Solutions. RhoMobile acquired by Zebra Technologies as part of Motorola s enterprise business. Tau Technologies founded by RhoMobile team members. Zebra opensourced RhoMobile. RMS 5.4 is the last release by Zebra. Tau becomes Zebra s technology partner and main contributor of RhoMobile. RMS 5.5 released by Tau in September This is the current fullfeatured release. RhoMobile Suite 6 is coming in June 2017 introducing new great features!

3 What Tau does Tau is a team of professionals founded by RhoMobile project members, who: Maintain and evolve RhoMobile toolkit to meet growing business needs. Support RhoMobile enterprise customers. Do custom development using various technology stacks. Provide consulting and learning services in the field of mobile development. Evolve community around RhoMobile platform. ( So please register at RhoMobile forum :) forums.tautechnologies.com )

4 What is RhoMobile now = RHOMOBILE SUITE + RHODES + RHOSTUDIO + TAU EXTENSIONS RHOCONNECT RHO BROWSER MITlicensed open source and free solution for crossplatform development. Hybrid or mixed hybrid approach for creation of mobile and desktop apps. Includes extendable programming platform, IDE, data sync solution and industrial web browser. Supports ios, Android, WinCE/WM, WP8, UWP, Windows desktop and soon OS X and desktop Linux. Powered by

5 Current situation OLD GOOD LEGACY DEVICES More than 80% of industrial mobile devices are running on Windows CE/Mobile Majority of devices shipped in 2016 were running legacy Windows OS Windows CE time is getting to an end: extended support is over soon ( really soon ) Android is going to be obviously dominant You will have to migrate

6 Migration cases Major scenarios for migration from legacy CE app to a modern platform Android or other: Mixed device park in large enterprise both legacy CE and new devices run simultaneously. A crossplatform solution which supports CE is a must have for this case. Onetime migration you only need to migrate to newer devices and drop support of legacy units. Choice of modern crossplatform solutions is available. Each scenario requires upgrade of the codebase. The app can t be just converted. You can upgrade your app s code with internal dev unit or request for thirdparty service. Tau has successful experience of app migration for several customers. Another option is to use some kind of industrial browser ( like RhoBrowser ) to create lightweight webapps that still have all advantages of hardware capabilities of enterprise devices.

7 Obvious benefits of hybrid cross platform solutions Web Technologies Webbased: used broadly or even dominant in some areas Shallow technology stack Code is written once and works everywhere Code of existing web apps may be reused Virtually unlimited choice of frontend frameworks

8 Obvious benefits of hybrid cross platform solutions Application is developed quickly Less developers needed Existing web developers may be involved Total cost of development and ownership reduced multiply

9 Obvious benefits of hybrid cross platform solutions Hybrid middleware = RHOMOBILE SUITE + RHODES Handles fragmentation hell Takes large part of development risks Provides support of new OS versions and hardware features Does not own your technology stack Provides means for backend integration + RHOSTUDIO + TAU EXTENSIONS RHOCONNECT

10 Obvious benefits of hybrid cross platform solutions Mobile Application Has uniform codebase Delivered in a required timeframe Easy to maintain Performs comparable to a native if using mixedhybrid solution like RhoMobile Utilizes any hardware capability Runs on any platform

11 Migration GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! ALL OF THE ABOVE APPLIES TO MIGRATION AS WELL

12 Result that you get when you use RhoMobile for migration We are Zebrafriendly: Tau is Zebra s technology partner and RhoMobile supports all Zebra devices. All hybrid benefits mentioned above. One application with united codebase that runs on all current and future platforms: WM/CE, Android, ios, UWP. Developers use widespread technologies like JS/Node, HTML5 and Ruby, the app is easy to maintain. Application performance is close to native. After migration is done app is not tied to any specific OS, but utilizing any hardware feature available. No platform fragmentation hell. Reliable middleware vendor: Tau provides full set of mobile development services including consulting, support and development. Time to market and cost of ownership is reduced greatly.

13 RhoMobile vs... PhoneGap: Limited (enterprise) functionality reduced performance for complex apps No WinCE support Xamarin ( it is really great, but ): Specific API you are bound to Xamarin developers are more expensive than JS No WinCE support RhoMobile is the ONLY platform on the market that supports WinCE. Using newlyadded Webkit it brings modern UI features even to legacy devices.

14 RhoMobile 6 coming June 2017

15 Unique solution on market Rhomobile is unique solution on market. Only RhoMobile provide fullfunctionality server developer environment on mobile device! Ruby on Rails on mobile device check! Node.js on mobile device check! You can create native mobile apps only with web and backend developers. You also can share not only developers but code between server and mobile application. Development of native mobile application with RhoMobile is the same with development of web application with server backend but server located on mobile device.

16 Mixed hybrid architecture Web application with remote server backend Mobile device Remote server Platform Browser Native application with mixed hybrid architecture Mobile device Framework WebView UI HTML/CSS/JS code UI HTML/CSS/JS code Logic Server code based on Ruby on Rails or Node.js Logic crossplatform code local server Ruby on Rails / Node.js Framework Platform API

17 Node.JS on mobile devices First on market Before RhoMobile was Rubyoriented. Now it is both Ruby and JS oriented! Fully functional Node.js on mobile device! Rhodes application s WebView HTML/CSS/JS app code + JS frameworks Rhodes API nodejs Rhodes extension Rhodes node.js environment Rhodes API node.js application local webserver

18 Node.JS on mobile devices You can use any pure Javascript Node.js modules 90% of NMP modules is pure Javascript and available on any mobile device and right now outofthe box! Already ported SQLite Node.js module All Rhomobile APIs accessible from Node.js Javascript code Please see complex example with using of express.js, hbs, sequelize and other popular Node.js modules: You can just copy your Node.js code from desktop Node.js applications to Rhodes mobile application!

19 New Ruby Ruby version: 5.5: released in : released in 2017 We use reference MRI Ruby implementation written in C ( not reducedfunctionality implementations like mruby ). New language and syntax features Local server controller s code performance is increased up to 50% Lots of bugfixes and security patches Ruby multithreading fully supported

20 New platforms Now: Soon: Mobile And desktop

21 WebKit for Windows CE Tau introduces completely upgraded a WebKitbased browser engine. Full HTML5 compliance High performance Compatible with WinCE 5/6, Compact 7 and Windows Mobile Utilizes Cairo Graphics with FreeType support for superb rendering Can be built in thirdparty products on the licensing basis

22 And more Enterprise security and tampering detection features: app is able to check at runtime if it is legally installed and running securely in MDM environment: APK signature validation Check for jailbroken/rooted device Check for installer package Crosswalk web engine for Android WKWebKit support for ios QT for Windows/OSX is updated from 5.5 to 5.8 Clipboard access extension for Android and ios Lots of bugfixes

23 Try beta now or get fullfeatured release Production 6.0.beta4 Beta

24 What s next: RhoMobile roadmap RMS 6.06.X MEAN integration based on Couchbase Node.js environment on device Meteor.js integration Couchbase Lite integration Web technologies Access to CommonAPI from native Rhodes code refactoring Architecture Implement all existing API via CommonAPI libcurl 7.54 Platforms ios 10 Android 7.0 UWP Support Cordova plugins Serverless WebView requests on Android Desktop linux and OS X OpenSSL ios 11 Android 8.0 SQLite 4 IoT integration Apple multipush Cloud deployment RhoConnect RhoBrowser Developer experience Tau s port of Webkit on WinCE/Mobile RhoSim supports Google dev tools 2017 Build system improvement optional ISEQ Debug Ruby+JS LiveUpdate on WP8 & W NPM installer

25 Your questions please