The Ruboto team is proud to announce the release of ruboto-core 0.4.0.
ruboto-core 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 0.4.0:
Features:
- Issue #57 Run scripts directly from APK
- Issue #64 Ruboto Platform APK
- Issue #66 Automatically install the Ruboto Core platform app when
starting a Ruboto Core app - Issue #69 Make Ruboto Core app relocatable to SDCARD
- Issue #71 “ruboto update app” should update generated Java entry
classes - Issue #77 Make RubotoBroadcastReceiver follow the same pattern as
RubotoActivity and RubotoService - Issue #81 Make startup progress dialog cancelable
- Issue #89 Add support for rubygems >= 1.8.0
Bugfixes:
- Issue #88 start_ruboto_activity broken on start up
You can find a complete list of issues here:
https://github.com/ruboto/ruboto-core/issues?state=closed&milestone=5
Installation:
To use ruboto-core, you need to install a Java JDK, the Android SDK,
Apache ANT, and a Ruby implementation. Then do (possibly as root)
gem install ruboto-core
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!