# The Mobile Application Development Challenge

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-mobile-application-development-challenge/157605>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 13, 2009, 4:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-mobile-application-development-challenge/157605 "2009-01-13T16:55:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![adam](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/4af34b/32.png) [@adam](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adam)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 4:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-mobile-application-development-challenge/157605/1 "2009-01-13T16:55:52Z")

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The meteoric growth in smartphones device volume and diversity is one  
of the few bright spots in the technology industry recently. But  
developers trying to build mobile apps are stymied by the extreme  
difficulty of writing mobile apps for multiple device operating  
systems especially when there is no clear winner and diversity is just  
increasing. Rhodes solves this dilemma for mobile developers by  
letting them write once for all leading smartphones. And do it much  
more productively by writing most of the interface in Ruby and HTML  
rather than Java, Objective-C, or C++.

Our Ruby-based mobile application framework, Rhodes, ships with  
several sample applications for sales (SugarCRM), field service  
(Siebel OnDemand) and issue tracking (Lighthouse). However, we want to  
see more samples that demonstrate the power of the framework, and the  
ease with which robust mobile enterprise applications can be built.  
Our developer community is generally working on proprietary  
applications under our commercial license. To spur more examples  
available as open source, we are holding an application development  
contest. First prize of $10,000 will be awarded to the individual or  
company building the best mobile application with Rhodes.

Rules and steps for application submission are available at  
[http://rhomobile.com/contest](http://rhomobile.com/contest). Applications must be submitted to  
Rhomobile by April 30, 2009. Prizes will be awarded on May 15, 2009.

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**Author:** ![adam](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/4af34b/32.png) [@adam](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adam)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 8:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-mobile-application-development-challenge/157605/2 "2009-01-14T08:51:39Z")

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On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Adam [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Our Ruby-based mobile application framework, Rhodes, ships with  
> several sample applications for sales (SugarCRM), field service  
> (Siebel OnDemand) and issue tracking (Lighthouse). However, we want to  
> see more samples that demonstrate the power of the framework, and the  
> ease with which robust mobile enterprise applications can be built.

Looks pretty interesting!

martin