The Ruboto team is proud to announce the release of Ruboto 0.8.1.
Ruboto is a framework for writing full Android apps in Ruby. It includes
support libraries and generators for creating projects, classes, tests,
and more.
New in version 0.8.1:
Features:
- Issue #164 Stop support for upgrading from Ruboto older than 0.5.2
directly - Issue #216 Make calls to super explicit
- Issue #227 Enable Ruby class based definition of Java subclasses
- Issue #239 Make “ruboto update app” use older versions of Ruboto to do
multi-step updates - Issue #240 Add teardown to test framework
- Issue #243 Deprecate and remove “ruboto update ruboto” command
- Issue #247 * Issue #227 Enable Ruby class based definition of Java
subclasses - Issue #248 Deprecate use of “ruboto gen interface” since it is covered
by “ruboto gen subclass”
Bugfixes:
- Issue #234 Fixed “ruboto gen jruby”
- Issue #237 Allow omitting on_create on activity
- Issue #241 Skip setup for tests when it is not defined
- Issue #244 start_ruboto_activity(block) is broken…does not start a
new activity (just reuses the existing one)
Internal:
- Issue #210 Make Ruboto really thread safe with minimal locking
Support:
- Issue #166 How can I debug ruboto??
- Issue #249 Build applications to apk
Documentation:
- Issue #236 Remove use of global variables in the Spycam example
Pull requests:
- Issue #199 Error while Loading Sqldroid
- Issue #228 hitting back button calls onDestroy
- Issue #235 * Issue #228 hitting back button calls onDestroy
- Issue #242 * Issue #216 Make calls to super explicit
- Issue #245 Put script loading logic into separate class to avoid
duplication
You can find a complete list of issues here:
Installation:
To use Ruboto, you need to install a Java JDK, the Android SDK, Apache
ANT, and a Ruby implementation. Then do (possibly as root)
gem install ruboto
To create a project do
ruboto gen app --package <your.package.name>
You can find an introductory tutorial at
If you have any problems or questions, come see us at http://ruboto.org/
Enjoy!
–
The Ruboto Team