In this presentation from AppForum 2012, we explore key points of Android and its use as an enterprise tool, including an overview of the stack, a "Hello, World!" example, security, and enterprise features.

We are happy to announce that RhoConnect 3.3.1 is released.  This version has a few small changes from the final beta (3.3.1.beta4):

Features & Enhancements:

* disable sqlite3 dependency by default so applications deploy on heroku without modification

* #28696971 - select which models to bulk sync

Bug Fixes:

Back in February VisionMobile did a comparison between all the available cross platform development tools for mobile devices. They investigated things such as developer satisfaction rates, the software development process and the overall developer experience.

Today we released RhoConnect 3.3 beta 2 for download.  RhoConnect 3.3 includes the following new features and bugfixes.

Features:

* Support for new RhoConnect push service (beta)  - Documentation, CLI and client support coming soon

* Bulk sync now supports objects with blob attributes

* New bucket-based storage system for redis which provides much faster access to adapter datasets

* New REST API routes available

Bug Fixes:

* Middleware was halting with 401 or 422 on custom routes

Another great video produced my Marakana TV - This video shows how one of the most successful IOS games 'Cut The Rope' got converted to a HTML5 application. Although this is obviously a very consumer application, the session shows some tools and best practices that may help you in your RhoMobile Suite application development.

When RhoElements 1.x was transitioned into part of RhoMobile Suite 2.0 one of the many changes was a push towards developing native applications.  You don't have to create applications natively however, you can use the shared runtime.

One of the first videos from the Americas AppForum has been posted. Daniel Morrison does a great job covering Ruby fundamentals to get you started with building native applications using RhoMobile Suite.

Check this link, all RhoMobile Suite sessions were recorded and will be posted in the coming weeks:

Today we released RhoConnect 3.2.1 with the following updates:

Bug Fixes:

* Apps using plugins were not able to set the appserver option

If you are using plugins, this is a critical update.

Enhancements:

* RhoConnect will detect REDISTOGO_URL environment variable to make it even easier to deploy directly to Heroku.

It was good seeing so many familiar faces from Launchpad at our 2012 Americas AppForum  in Schaumburg, IL earlier this month.  Thanks to all those who managed to make it to my session and for those who couldn't make it I understand they'll be posting it online in the coming weeks.