• How to Build Cross Platform Enterprise Android Applications

using HTML5 & Ruby

Enterprise Applications

• Smartphone usage in enterprise is exploding

– Mobility is no longer bleeding edge

– Driven by workers bringing their own devices

– Users are finally using apps on their own accord

• Enterprises still looking to own devices & control them

– How do they move forward

• Android fastest growing OS in the Enterprise

– 80+% still use Windows Mobile/CE/WEHH (Not WP7)

• A big step forward in mobile operating systems

– Open Source

– Can address enterprise requirements unlike iOS

• But… What about my applications

– Do they need to be rewritten

– What about BB, WP7, Symbian, Win32, Mozilla, Tizen

• “Native Apps” have won the day

– 25 Billion apps downloaded from the Apple App Store

– 10 Billion apps downloaded from the Marketplace

– Even when the devices have a great browser!

Background

Why Its Native Not Web

• Device capabilities– Barcoding, Imaging, RFID, Printing, Payment

• Offline use• Local data• Computation everywhere• Performance

But… How do you write a native app that is cross platform for all popular devices?

Leveraging Ruby & HTML5

• Ruby compiled to byte code for performance• MVC pattern for best practices and easy

maintenance• ORM for managing data and relationships• App generation for rapid development• RhoStudio for fastest mobile debugging

RhoElements Architecture

RhoSync App

IntegrationServer

your app code

RhoSync client

ORM (Rhom)

RhoElements componentsRuby

executor

HTML templates

model

controller

modelHTML

templatescontroller

Backendapp

sourceadapter

sourceadapter

Backendapp

model

model

We provide:

You write:

Rhodesapp

generator

Backendapp

Devicecapabilities

smartphone device

The COMPLETE Next Generation Enterprise Mobility Solution

• Damage Report Application Demo

Killer Possible Enterprise Smartphone Apps

• Customer centric

– Get product information, WRITE questions via NFC

– Self-purchase (e.g. Motorola Solutions scanners)

– NFC –based identification (vs. QR boarding pass)

• Partner centric

– Return rental ->flight checkin

• Employee centric

– allow every employee to take orders, wherever they are (Apple Store, restaurants POS in Europe)

Summary: Why Rhomobile?

• RhoElements Runs Everywhere

– Write once – run on every smartphone

• MVC framework for smartphones

– Use web development skills to write NATIVE apps

• Framework with data synchronization

– Enables smartphone usage in the enterprise

• Development as a Service for mobile

– Write apps without installing SDKs locally

• Enterprise Security Compliant

– Encrypt data on the device, remote wipe the device, secure authentication etc.

Resources

• Download

– http://rhomobile.com/

• Docs & Tutorials -

– http://docs.rhomobile.com

• Community –

– http://launchpad.motorolasolutions.com

• Books –

– RhoMobile Beginner’s Guide

• Mark.kirstein@motorolasolutions.comQuestions?