Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Rhodes 3.0 becomes first framework to support WP7, Silverlight gets an open source alternative

Rhomobile , which provides cross platform mobile dev. tools, in a a recent PR have announced that their new development framework, Rhodes 3.0, which will provide support for  NFC, Windows Phone 7 and Windows CE. Rhodes 3.0 also includes a powerful new IDE called RhoStudio, which is an Eclipse based IDE.

What does it mean for Windows Phone 7 ?  Read the relevant PR data after the break :

Rhomobile : , the leader in tools for enterprise smartphone applications, today announced the release of Rhodes 3.0, the leading and first native smartphone app framework. Rhodes now includes support for near field communications (NFC) chips as well as Windows Phone 7 and Windows CE support. Additionally, Rhodes 3.0 now includes RhoStudio, its own Integrated Development Environment (IDE) which provides integrated app generation, editing building, device emulation and debugging.

Rhodes is now the first framework to provide support for Windows Phone 7 development. It provides a modern HTML5-based approach to creating native device-optimized WP7 apps, while still allowing instant portability to other phones. It is a great alternative to using Silverlight and XAML for WP7.

 Read the complete PR here.

You can download Rhodes 3.0 now. Give it a spin and tell us what you think of it !


By Rahul Mathur

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