RhoHub 2.0 Launches!

Today we are making the entirely rearchitected RhoHub available for beta usage in writing your native smartphone apps. RhoHub is the first Development as a Service for building native mobile apps when it was released last November. But we are even more excited about this release.

This version of RhoHub features several significant new features:
- you can build apps with Rhodes 2.0 or any other development branch of Rhodes
- if you choose to use sync in your app, your RhoSync server is hosted on Heroku. This provides a high level of reliability and easily scalable infrastructure
- we provide built in source code control by supplying you with your own git repository.
- the built in git repo also makes it very easy to use your own local IDE or editor and still get the benefits of hosted build and runtime synchronization

Note that because of the desire to integrate local editors and IDEs there is a significantly different workflow for app development. To “offline Rhodes developers” it will seem quite familiar. To existing RhoHub users the development process changes a bit. We will be reenabling a new much more scalable and powerful web-based IDE in a coming release.

Most importantly the new RhoHub is a great platform to add other robust services to facilitate mobile development. Forthcoming features include a hosted streaming media server (bidirectional high definition audio and video to and FROM your smartphone) and a hosted app provisioning and management portal (host your enterprise-focused app store online!).