RhoSync is a standalone server which keeps enterprise application data current and available on users’ smartphones. The information is stored locally on a user’s device and available to him even when disconnected and offline. Unlike other sync servers that have appeared in the past, RhoSync allows synchronization adapters to be built very easily. All that it takes to enable RhoSync to synchronize your apps is for the mobile developer to implement a “source adapter”: a handful of methods (query, create, update, and delete) that are used by the RhoSync server. Smartphone app developers (whether in Rhodes or Objective C) can use it to provide offline disconnected data usage to their users.
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RhoSync is the fastest, most feature rich, most modern and easiest sync server to write apps for. It provides the following benefits to Rhodes and Objective C developers:
Easy Sync Adapter Development
Developers write a handful of methods to write a RhoSync source adapter to communicate with backend applications Code size and effort is over 10 times smaller than writing to earlier synchronization servers.
FASTEST Most Scalable Sync Server EVER
RhoSync is the first sync server ever to use modern “No SQL” key value store technology for its data caching. Older sync servers all used relational database servers. Hence RhoSync scales to high volumes of data and devices better than any other server on the market.
First Sync Server To Use Smartphone Push
RhoSync takes advantage of the new advanced BlackBerry Enterprise Server and iPhone 3.0 SDKs for Push. It is the only framework (and only sync server) that uses BES Push and iPhone Push to optimize synchronization. It enables realtime updates of critical backend application information to the device with no polling.
Simplifies Smartphone Data Access
Smartphone app developers using Rhodes that choose to use RhoSync can assume that the data there is always current and available without doing their own network programming for retrieval and update.
Download
- To install RhoSync, either download the integrated installer for Windows: RhoSync Windows Installer
- Or follow these step by step instructions Installing RhoSync on Mac or Linux
- You can use RhoSync from your apps written in Objective C for the iPhone with the RhoSync Client Objective-C Library
Purchasing
To use RhoSync you must purchase a commercial license when development commences or open source your app under the GPL license. Commercial licenses of RhoSync start at $10,000 for a single app for 100 devices, and doubles with each ten-fold increase of devices (e.g. $20,000 for 1000 devices). To purchase, contact Rhomobile at sales@rhomobile.com or buy a 100 device license by clicking below. (Note: Purchase of the RhoSync commercial license indicates acceptance of the RhoSync Commercial License Agreement.) RhoSync is also available as a hosted Software as a Service on RhoHub.
More Information
- Here is the tutorial on how to build apps with Rhodes and RhoSync.
- Here is where to get RhoSync from Github.
- Here is the RhoSync Developer Reference.
